Blood Diamond A True Story Novels & Stories

"He has one of the most valuable assets in the world right now." Melody's curiosity was palpable, her voice laced with excitement. "What is it?" Stephanie's pause was deliberate, her words dripping with drama. "The blue diamond." The room fell silent, the weight of her words sinking in. Collins' gaze was calm, but his eyes betrayed a hint of surprise. "Really? The blue diamond?" Stephanie's nod was confident, her blonde hair swaying with the movement. "Yeah, 100 percent. I've never delivered false news, have I, boss?"

Diamond and I should never have stolen what we did. “They weren’t tryna kill you, they’re trying to kill Sienna and I. I’m Zasha Vasiliev’s daughter, and Aliyana’s Capello’s sister.” Diamond’s words kill me and I know we can’t hide the truth. It’s either we tell them everything or nothing at all. They were now targets for helping us. “What?” Killer’s question has me closing my eyes. It’s time they know what we did. “She’s right.” Dexter’s confession makes it harder.

relieved. "It’s not a joke, Luca," she said, looking up at me. Her eyes were calm. "The diamond isn't here. It never was. My father didn't steal the 'Lion’s Heart' to sell it. He stole it to hide the fact that it was a fake." "A fake?" I barked. "The Moretti family has been killing people for ten years over a piece of glass?"

Sister Mary summoned him to come and be a mediator on the case. There was a lot of questioning and cross questioning from both sides. Maria was sobbing bitterly but she stuck to her story. "My father gave it to me", she kept saying those words. Sister Mary threatened her several times but she kept saying the same thing all over again. The chief of the village knew Maria's father. He was one of the wise man who usually came with valid discussions when there was a matter that needed to be resolved in the royal house. He was one of the chief advisors. The chief knew that he once worked in the mines when he was still a young man. He used to tell them house they dug the diamonds in one of the big

Has somebody posted my face on the dark web and slammed a price on me being brought in alive or dead? Am I accidentally starring in some real-life John Wick movie? First the monsters from the bar. Now this man. No. This has to be a misunderstanding. Bounty hunters don't usually pay outrageous sums of money for people, do they? It’s usually the other way around. And this man doesn’t look like he needs bounty money. But looks can be deceiving. “Please,” I say. “Please just…” I try to keep my voice low, but it comes out shaky. Then I proceed to add an awkwardly wide smile to sound confident and convincing.

She was the true grace the Moon Goddess had given me. Suddenly, a terrified howl erupted from the gravesite, cutting through the violence. The Beta warriors had dug through the earth. My body wasn't there. The corpse, a stranger hastily wrapped in rags, was not me. There was only a moonstone pendant, tied with a silk ribbon, glowing faintly beside the body. "The moonstone…" Kaelan's voice suddenly choked. He shakily picked up the pendant, his knuckles white from the force of his grip.

5. Tonight, everyone was waiting for the legendary "Eye of Medusa"—a rare, deep-sea black diamond weighing 100 carats, emitting an eerie blue-black glow. As the most sought-after independent investor in the European jewelry trade over the past two years, the woman known only by the code name "E.C." was the absolute center of attention tonight. I wore a deep-V, backless black velvet gown, the train trailing on the floor. Swirling a glass of champagne in my hand, I stood elegantly directly under the spotlight.

She didn't know what to do with that yet so she put it in a room in her mind and closed the door. What she had, right now, without the midnight meeting: the audio file. The original photograph. The documents from the locked USB folder, some of which she hadn't fully examined yet. The connection between Seraphina Langford and the Rhodes estate debt. And a name she'd come across twice now in her research — a journalist named Daniel Park who'd been quietly pulling at the thread of Elias Rhodes's death for years before his stories kept getting killed before they ran. She could call Daniel Park tonight.

“Yes. That is the whole idea.” Nevertheless, the leader of the gang was aware of his end - Death by hanging or firing squad. At The Field While the team was working, Tim visited the website of Sparkling Diamond Exchange and contacted their spokesperson through the contact on the site. He posed as both a buyer of the refined diamond and a seller as well. Their ten-minute discussion exposed him to a good deal of information about the mining and market of precious stones. “This is a massive source of income,” he told himself. “I have an offer for you?”

This wasn't the end of it, she had given her all to Jack and this was how he was going to repay her, she didn't even see what was so special in that assistant. *** At Vivian Oscar's house Peter scrolled through his phone painfully, Regina had moved on to a better person. If he had known, he wouldn't have left her in the hospital years ago to die and now she's healthy and with the youngest billionaire in New York. "Ughhh!!" Vivian groaned as she walked into the living room, interrupting Peter's thought. " Can you believe this?" Vivian said "Believe what?" "Haven't you seen the blogs? Everyone's talking about Jack and that girl he brought to the event."