A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust novel Chapter 608

Jacob had gotten pretty banged up—cuts and bruises everywhere, honestly kind of scary to look at. Thankfully, nothing was too serious, just some scrapes and surface wounds.

She patched Jacob up as best she could, then told Ryan to get him home and let him rest.

After that, she stood up and strode right over to the mayor of Ivory Town.

“Isaiah, there are rules to living in a community. There’s also basic decency,” she said, her voice clear and steady. “You guys just going around hurting people for no reason. Isn’t that going a bit too far?”

“Our town makes money. That’s our business. We never said we wouldn’t help you. If you can’t keep up, that’s on you. Don’t blame us.”

Isaiah’s face tightened, his jaw set in an ugly scowl. He glanced at Calliope and Silas. He could tell neither of them were people to mess with. Ivory Town was outmatched here, and he knew it.

“Oxcreek’s my home,” Calliope continued calmly. “If Ivory Town wants to stir up trouble, you’d better think carefully about the consequences. You start something with us, I’ll pay it back tenfold.”

She turned back to the crowd. “Jacob was hit by Kyle, right?” she asked, her tone almost casual.

A bunch of people started shouting at once.

“Yeah, it was Kyle! And they hit the rest of us too! Maybe we’re not too badly hurt, but they were way out of line!”

“Really?” Calliope said, raising an eyebrow. “Alright, where did you get hit, and who did it? Line up, and we’ll return the favor, blow for blow.”

Isaiah’s eyes went wide with outrage. “You can’t be serious! That’s going too far!”

“No, Isaiah,” Calliope replied coolly. “You’re the ones who went too far.”

Just then, Silas’s crew showed up, flanking Calliope.

Neil exhaled, relieved. “You brought this on yourselves. We didn’t start anything. Maybe if you focused on your own community instead of trying to tear us down, you’d be better off.”

“Isaiah,” Calliope said, fixing him with a frosty stare, “you should be thinking about how to make the most of the opportunities you’ve got, not wasting your time picking fights.”

She turned to the rest of the crowd from Ivory Town. “Listen up. I’m letting you off easy this time because it’s the first. If it happens again, I won’t go so easy on you.”

She turned to Neil, her tone softening. “I know I’ll be heading back in a couple days. But if they try anything while I’m gone, you call me. Even if I’m not here, I’ve got friends in town, and they’ll be over in a heartbeat.

And I can come back myself, too. What happens to Oxcreek happens to me. If anyone tries to mess with us, I won’t just stand by and watch.”

She meant every word, and everyone there knew it.