TimeNovelChapter 856
"No way—are you saying she scammed them out of a ton of money, but they never even spent a don 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, | 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 sfor her? And that tuition money-didn't I tell you to pay it?"
Zelda's expression soured even more. "I can't remember. | always forget these things!"
"And besides, whenever | was out getting clothes for Lisette, she'd be off somewhere. | 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," cthe
quiet reply.
"When | went with you, you said | was an embarrassment and madewait outside."
"And when you promised to getsomething, you'd walk out with bags and bags for Lisette—always forgetting
about me."
"I mean, | 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."
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"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!"
"That's so sad. I've seen favoritism, but this is on another level."
"My heart breaks for the real Calliope."
"She never even got to grow up-and her family didn't care whether she lived or died!"
"Their first reaction wasn't grief for losing their daughter-it was trying to get money from the impostor!"
"How disgusting!"
"Poor Calliope!"
"So if Mrs. Jewell says she never gave Calliope any money, where's this story about Calliope stealing.all coming
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"Well, maybe one of her brothers gave her something?”
The crowd all turned their attention to Valerian.
Valerian looked sick. He hadn't given Calliope a single cent.
"Valerian, you must've given her money, right? Show us the proof Monty prodded, sensing the
reporters and onlookers getting riled definitely starting to
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Valerian's expression looked as if he'd swallowed a rotten egg.
He couldn't say he had, but he couldn't say he hadn't either.
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"What's the matter, is it just easier to fool the press and everyone online?"
"You think everyone out there is just a bunch of idiots?"
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