Emma and Anderson descended into a complete panic the moment they were
handcuffed.
They had gone to the Assex villa to stir up trouble, but they never thought that they
would be sent to jail!
Emma exclaimed, âAre you mistaken? We werenât robbing the house! That villa belongs
to us, is there a problem if we enter our own property?â
Tony sneered coldly, âAre you illiterate? Even elementary school kids have common
sense, and you donât? Even if the propertyâs rights belong to your family, this is still
considered robbery.
Speak up! Where is the glassy emerald worth a hundred million?
Hurry up and hand it over. Otherwise, the only place youâd be staying for the rest of your
life is behind bars.â
Emma was dumbfounded. âWhat did you just say? A glassy emerald worth a hundred
million?â
Claire also put on an act and pointed at Emma. âItâs a glassy emerald that was in our
home.
Youâve taken it. Hand it over quickly. You wonât be able to afford the
consequences anyway.â
âBullsh*t! Your family doesnât even have any qualifications, to begin with. Where would
you have gotten such an emerald? And one thatâs worth 100 million dollars? Are you
dreaming? Are you trying to defame us? No way!â
Claire slapped Emmaâs face. âYouâre the one whoâs bullsh*tting. That was what my
son-in-law brought back from stone gambling. Heâs the infamous Stone Gambling
Prince and many can testify to that.
Thereâs no way you can deny this now, right?â
During this time, the old lady of the Assex family had woken up.
Being handcuffed for the first time in her life, she panicked, and her body started
trembling. âImpossible! This is a set up. How could my granddaughter steal something?
Let go of me! Iâm not the one who stole anything. Why have I been handcuffed? Who
gave you the right to do this?â
Alex walked up and pointed to the pearl necklace on her neck and sneered, âDidnât you
steal this? What is that?â
âHuh? Thatâs my pearl necklace.â
Claire jumped up and pointed at the necklace too. âThatâs mine, Joanne. Youâve been
caught red-handed, yet you still try to deny it?!â
Alex clearly remembered that William had given him the necklace himself, which had
then been given to Claire as a gift in his maiden visit to the Assex residence.
âThis⦠This is not⦠Who said this was your necklace? This is mine⦠a birthday gift
that my husband gave me decades ago.â Joanne denied the allegations. She obviously
wouldnât have admitted that it was Claireâs.
Claire fumed. âJoanne, you really are so shameless!â
âYouâre the shameless one! Taking food from us Assexes, using our property, and
employing unscrupulous tactics to steal our family business⦠Now, youâre even
snatching the contract of our Assex Conglomerate.
You bunch of ungrateful ingrates,
Iâve wasted my life raising you all. How do you even have the face to come and make
trouble at our Assex home?â
Claireâs chest heaved heavily, and she was furious to the point she couldnât speak.
Alex smiled. âMother, relax. This is the pearl necklace I gave you over a year ago as a
greeting present. Itâs worth eight million, and one of the pearls on it belongs to my dadâs
precious collection. Thereâs a carving on it, and itâs easy to recognize.â
Having said that, he ignored Joanneâs protest and forcibly removed the pearl necklace.
However, the moment he got the necklace, Alex took in a blow of shock as a look of
disbelief flashed through his eyes. He could actually feel a burst of energy from the
necklace.
âWhatâs going on? Does this necklace have something else in it?â
He carefully studied the string of pearls and finally located the energy source from a
particularly round pearl that glowed a little, with gold color surrounding it. Thatâs right.
This was the pearl his father treasured so much.
He didnât know what he had been thinking back then, to have placed the pearl onto this
necklace and given it to Claire.
Could his father have known about the peculiar properties of this pearl?
He soon found a word carved onto the pearl, âRockefeller!â
The glistening letters looked slightly magical. The word wasnât carved on the pearlâs
surface, but rather, appeared to have been carved from the inside.