A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust novel Chapter 1072

Her own parents loved the adopted daughter more than their real child—so why should she care anymore?

“I hate to break it to you,” Callie said, her gaze ice-cold, “but as far as I’m concerned, my parents are already in the ground. If you dropped dead tomorrow, I wouldn’t even bother to send a card, let alone flowers. So stop deluding yourselves.”

“Your debts?” Her voice was casual, almost amused. “I could settle them with the snap of my fingers. But tell me—why should I help people who never showed me an ounce of kindness? Why should I bail out the very people who made my life miserable?” She raised an eyebrow. “You think I’m some kind of fool?”

She let out a low chuckle. “Sure, maybe I was a fool before. But not anymore. I saw exactly how things would turn out for you, and honestly? I’m glad to see you suffering. At a time like this, you shouldn’t be begging me. You should be groveling to Lisette.”

“She’s the one who swindled you all out of your money. So why come to me? Or do I look like the kind of idiot who’d pick up your tab?”

Zelda was left speechless.

Monty’s expression darkened.

Valerian spoke up, voice dripping with wounded nostalgia. “Calliope, wasn’t it you who loved us so much before? I know you can’t really stand to see us like this. Just come back home, pay off our debts, and we’ll finally give you all the love you deserve. Isn’t that what you want? Everyone could be happy again.”

He paused, looking at her accusingly. “If it hadn’t been for you, Lisette might never have done something so terrible in the first place.”

Calliope stared at him, completely incredulous. “You’re pinning what Lisette did on me? Why don’t you try blaming yourself for constantly indulging her? Maybe that’s why she turned out this way.”

“If you’re going to say every awful thing Lisette does is my fault, then I hope she ruins you even more!”

“Don’t be so poisonous!” Valerian exploded, his face suffused with anger. “Why are you always so cruel?”

Calliope blinked at him, almost mockingly. “Are you only just realizing that? I’m not the pushover you remember. Honestly, I hope you lose everything and rot in some gutter with no one left to even remember your name.”

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