A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust

Valerian was fuming. "Calliope is out of her mind, I swear."

"What's she even trying to do?" Ulysses asked, anxious. "Isn't she running the

company? Is she planning to quit? Just walk away and leave us hanging?"

Lisette glanced around at everyone, hesitating. "Honestly, I get the feeling... she's

kind of an impostor."

"Impostor?" The three brothers turned to her in unison.

"Yeah, like... pretending to be the real Callie," Lisette said. "Haven't you noticed?

She doesn't look a thing like Mom and Dad, or any of our brothers."

"All the brothers have at least a bit of Mom or Dad in them, but Callie? She's

completely different."noveldrama

"I mean, sure, genetics are weird, but you can't get that different, can you?"

"What if she's not the real Callie?"

"Then it would make sense why she doesn't care about the Jewell family, or any

of us, wouldn't it?"

Lisette peeked up at her relatives, gauging their reactions.

"No way," Horatio frowned, arms crossed. "She grew up with Grandpa. We picked

her up from his place ourselves. Grandpa wouldn't just swap in a fake, would he?"

"She can't be a fake! And if she is... where's the real one?" Monty added, clearly

skeptical.

"But Lisette has a point," Valerian admitted. "She's so harsh sometimes, and

honestly, she never really fit in, not in looks, not in personality. She's always been

different."

"Grandpa raised her from day one," Ulysses shook his head. "No way he would've

switched her out, not after all these years."

"It's just a theory," Lisette muttered, seeing how unconvinced everyone was. But

she was determined, she'd find proof one way or another.

"Regardless, what she's doing now-

is just crossing the line," Valerian

said, pinching the bridge of his nose.

"ReaDor not, she's about to make us

lose everything we've worked for."

"She probably thinks we've never treated her right," Ulysses said quietly, eyes

downcast.

"And honestly, looking at where she is now, she doesn't need us. She's got the

power. She has no reason to help."

"She's got every right to walk away," he added, voice small. "Guess her heart's

just... frozen over."

He used to resent Calliope more

than anyone. But now that she was

slipping away for real, he couldn't

help but rethink everything. The

more he thought about it, the more

he realized how wrong they'd been.

He regretted every moment he'd treated her badly. Now, Calliope felt like

someone they could never reach again.

What if she never came back to them? What if she was gone for good?

He hated that he was only realizing all this now, when it might already be too late.

"We haven't been that bad to her

recently," Valerian protested, his

brow furrowed. "She's always

picking on Lisette! That's why we

can't stand her. If she'd just make

peace with Lisette, maybe we could

all get along."

"We even invited her for Christmas dinner, but she chose to spend it with the other

brothers. What could we do?"

"She thinks she's so great now," Zelda scoffed. "I told you, nothing good ever

happens when she's around. We should've never begged for her help in the first

place."

"But she did fix Horatio's leg," Ulysses said quietly, glancing over at Horatio. "No

matter what else, she kept her word on that."