My Wife is a Sassy Queen

“Wow!” Mariana was the first to break the silence, “Is this a set with… you know what I mean?”

“Uhm” Liliana casually agreed.

Jennifer was left gaping at her.

“My lovely Lil, you also have matching jewelry. Isn’t this already too magnificent? I would think if you drape yourself in some sheets and just wear it, you would still outshine everyone.” She said tremblingly.

“Silly girl! This is not something I can wear casually.” Liliana was amused at her reaction.

James asked, “Is this a family heirloom?”

Liliana nodded.

“What does this mean to you?” Jonathan asked.

Liliana looked at him and took off her necklace as she recounted, “This was my mother’s necklace that went missing a few months before she passed away. My people had it and did not actually let it be stolen and safeguarded it for years. My mother did not see it again before she passed away.”

She caressed the necklace slowly and said, “I remember she had been searching for it a few days before…well…I guess she had some inkling that she would leave soon and wanted to pass it along. At that time, we did not know it was even missing. We had assumed it was just misplaced. I had promised her that I would find it.”© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

Henry asked, “Why did it go missing?”

Liliana kept the necklace on the table and looked up with a hardened expression.

“Someone who had no right to it had given it away,” Liliana said in a cold voice.

“What for?” Henry asked, sensing the fury behind her cold eyes.

“My mother was pregnant. Someone mixed abortifacients in her supplements,” Liliana said through gritted teeth.

“I am so sorry,” Jennifer said, holding her hands.

Liam asked after a pause, “What do you want to do with this?”

Liliana looked up at him and smiled with a twinkle in her eyes, “This is mine. I want to claim it publicly.”

James understood, “You want to put it in the auction and then buy it.”

Liliana looked at him and smiled, “What do you think?”

James was confused, “What then?”

Jonathan guessed, “You want to use it as a trap to lure both parties.”

Liliana smiled, “Bingo!”

Mariana looked at her, “That’s great, I will buy it for you.”

Liliana shook her head, “Do you know how much it costs? And what the starting bid would be?”

Mariana grumbled, “Do you think I can’t afford it?”

Liliana was amused, “Do you want to be famous in the business circle as the person who spent a few billion dollars on a necklace?”

Mariana pouted as Jennifer exclaimed, “It costs over a billion dollars!”

Henry looked at her and snorted, “What did you think?”

Jennifer shook out of her daze and grumbled, “How would I know? Do I look like someone who knows about diamonds or jewelry? Besides, we mean different things when we say expensive.”