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.”
“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.”
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.”
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