"So, everything you just said was to play me! You just wanted to know the secret of the Jade Bracelet!" Simon's expression soured, not just because he'd been deceived by Seraphina Sterling, but for a more important reason: if he couldn't obtain the Jade Bracelet on this trip, then once he returned, he would be completely out of options.
"Simon, that's not the point. The point is twenty million US dollars!" Seraphina Sterling said with a faint smile. "I bid twenty million US dollars for it back then. Who knows how many times higher its value is now!"
'If that's not the point, then what is?' Simon scoffed inwardly, then a sudden realization struck him. "The Jade Bracelet is still in your possession!" he said, staring at her in shock. He felt like a man dying of thirst who had just been handed a bottle of pure water; a powerful wave of hope surged through him.
Seraphina Sterling said nothing, only smiling faintly as she nodded.
