Shining Diamonds Seventeen Novels & Stories

Vanessa. Her half-sister stepped past her without a glance, smelling like Chanel No. 5 and satisfaction. She was wearing Aria’s necklace. The gold pendant Aria had designed herself, the one with the ruby stone that Damien had custom-made for their first anniversary. It sat against Vanessa’s collarbone like it had always belonged there. "You’re still here?" Vanessa’s voice was silk wrapped around a razor blade. She settled onto the arm of the sofa, crossing her legs, and looked at Aria the way people look at stains on expensive furniture.

"Why would you do that?" Because I want them to see you, to realize that you can be happy without them. I know you getting married to me, doesn't guarantee your happiness or your success but I don't like the fact that they look down on you, tonight I want to see you shine so brightly because you deserve it, because you are a Diamond." The last sentence made me recall the moment when I almost killed myself and I got a strange text from someone telling me I'm Diamond, perhaps is it- "We are here sir," The driver said through the communication piece while Ricardo still had his eyes on me.

They tore my clothes, hit me, and slapped me until my vision swam. I begged them to stop. I said there had to be a mistake. The bride planted her stiletto heel down onto the back of my hand, grinding it cruelly. She leaned in, her voice low and mocking. "There's no mistake. This ring is one of a kind. It's custom-made. If you have it, then you're the mistress." My hand split open under her heel. Blood smeared the diamond. Then, she took out a small knife and carved "mistress" across my face. She dragged me by the hair out of the mall and into the street.

"What are you thinking?! This is crossing a line… No matter what's going on, you can't do that in front of her. She's right there. How can you just pretend nothing happened?" It sounded like Zeke was quietly scolding Jason. Not long after, the lights dimmed. In the center of the stage, Wendy appeared, arm in arm with a man in a white suit. She had changed into another wedding dress. It was discreet but lovely, with lace and pearls along the hem, making her skin smooth and radiant. Jason couldn't take his eyes off her. In that moment, everything became painfully clear. My heart felt like it was being wrapped tighter and tighter, to the point of suffocating.

Shadows clawed the ground around her boots, unspooling faster than she could rein them in. Elara’s smile widened. “Oh, she’s cracking.” The duel escalated. Fire, shadow, steel — everything colliding in bursts that scorched the sand. Sierra and Malick fought as one, their threads pulling tighter with every movement. His shadow and hers tangled, indistinguishable. Too tight. Too close. She felt his heat, his fury, his fear — like they weren’t two people at all, but one body splitting apart. And then her control slipped. The shadows erupted from her chest, wild and jagged, tearing the ground open in black cracks that bled silver light. Elara stumbled back, for once her smirk gone. Gloria’s eyes

Curled up on the plush carpet, I hugged my knees to my chest, numb fingers mindlessly scrolling through my phone. And that was when I stumbled upon Heidi's latest post. She had just shared a picture of the "Only Star in the Galaxy"—a pink diamond so rare and dazzling it looked as if it had been plucked straight from the heavens. I still remembered how Cassian had fought tooth and nail for that diamond at the auction, going back and forth with rival bidders for dozens of rounds before finally winning it.

"Two stones, born by different members, one was silver and the other was diamond. The silver got jealous of the diamond and it made different plots to spoil the diamond, it managed to do that and the diamond began loosing its shine while the silver just stared happy cause its plan worked. The diamond so livid with anger at the silver decided to revenge forgetting that even with its little shine it was still more valuable than that piece of silver. So the diamond with its hard surface while the silver slept started crushing the silver destroying it to pieces, but before the silver died it said.. * I only did what I did to reduce your shine, not to end you, you're still more valuable than I, a

“Some things are better left unsaid. You’ll thank me for it one day.” Sky bit her lip, nodding reluctantly. But even as she fell silent, her thoughts churned. What are you hiding, Xavier? And why does it feel like your secrets could destroy me? ***** “This pair,” the tall jewelry attendant began, holding them up for Sky to see, “is crafted with the rarest diamonds from Botswana. Each stone has been meticulously cut to perfection by our finest artisans. The clarity, the color, the cut—it’s unparalleled.”

Entry 12: “Elara came back today. I wasn’t expecting it. She looks different—harder, colder. I can’t let her stay. I’ve spent too long building this life to let her ruin it now. She thinks she can reclaim her place in this family? I’ll make sure she knows exactly where she belongs. In the shadows.”

Fuck. Something runs past me hiding in the shadows of the woods. I stop in my tracks, scared of death. I can almost hear my heartbeat. My blood is raging in my veins. "Show yourself," I yell angrily. I hear a low growl and see strange eyes focused on me for a second. I scream and fall to the ground. "Alice! Alice! Alice!" The voices have gotten closer. Something is definitely following me in the woods. I stand to my feet hurriedly. My cloth and shoes have mud stains on them. "Fuck," I grunt. The midnight bell rings from afar in the village. What a hell of a way to start my eighteenth-year birthday. I hear the growling clearly as it draws closer to me. My hands are shaking as I grab the dagge