A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust novel Chapter 856

“No way—are you saying she scammed them out of a ton of money, but they never even spent a dime on her?”

“That can’t be right. The Jewell family must all have been conned!”

A chorus of murmurs swept through the crowd.

Monty was starting to sweat. He looked nervously at Zelda and pressed, “Come on, show them! Didn’t you buy her clothes? Pay her tuition?”

Zelda’s face was tight. “No, I didn’t!”

With all those eyes on her, she didn’t dare lie.

She had no proof.

“What?” Monty gaped. “Every year on her birthday, didn’t you buy her something? You got presents for Lisette—weren’t you supposed to do the same for her? And that tuition money—didn’t I tell you to pay it?”

Zelda’s expression soured even more. “I can’t remember. I always forget these things!”

“And besides, whenever I was out getting clothes for Lisette, she’d be off somewhere. I don’t remember ever getting her anything!”

Zelda huffed, clearly annoyed.

“It’s not that I’d disappear. It’s that you only ever cared about Lisette. You never even looked my way,” came the quiet reply.

“When I went with you, you said I was an embarrassment and made me wait outside.”

“And when you promised to get me something, you’d walk out with bags and bags for Lisette—always forgetting about me.”

“I mean, I stopped caring. But if the real Calliope was here, she’d probably be crushed. You treated your adopted daughter a thousand times better than your own flesh and blood.”

People in the audience gasped, unable to hide their shock.

“They didn’t even know she wasn’t their real daughter, and this is how they treated her?”

“Oh my God. Even thinking she was their own, they only bought clothes for the adopted daughter? The real Calliope must’ve been heartbroken!”

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