Unpolished Gems Novels & Stories

I had millions of questions buzzing inside my head. "You don't belong to high society; you’re ordinary. You’re not royalty; they say" he muttered, and I was forced to look at him. I coerced a smile. I'm not going to argue, nor am I going to fight. He’s right. I’m just ordinary. The daughter of a prostitute "But there's one thing they all seem to forget: A diamond is just like an ordinary stone; it just needs a polisher to gloss it and tell its worth."

The surface of the gem is glowing with streaks of black and purple lights, and just watching the swirls slithering all over the gem makes my blood freeze in my veins. “What's this?” I croak, the sight of the gem also pulling at me, drawing me in like a bloodsucking leech. “This is one of my most prized possessions,” Thanox answers, his eyes shining with amusement. “This gem is a delicate treasure from the realm I come from, and I love calling it the Hunger Darling. For you, this gem has the infinite power to enhance your pathetic little wolf powers, making you stronger and more powerful than any she-wolf in the world.”

Oh, cruel fate. She didn't ask for it this time. Probably scared I knew her secret. Gems weren’t supposed to be out in public and if I told on her then she could get into trouble. But still, thinking back to my knowledge about Gems, they weren’t evil creatures. They were just unnaturally outstanding, beauty and body wise. Not very clever. Even though I didn't like Gems, I wasn't heartless. Well, not entirely. I picked up the lip gloss and handed it back to her. Only it wasn't her.

Elana held the necklace in her palm. She held it up. The pearlescent gem, a rough, unpolished stone. It was dark, a swirling mix of deep moss green and slat gray, looking less like a jewel and more like a piece of the mountain itself. “This,” Elana announced, “is an Earthstone.”

He suddenly turned the open book toward her. "This is your cousin's engagement set," he observed, tapping at the picture of the diamond and white gold earring, pendant and ring set she had made for Rick a few years before. "Yes but they're Rick's design. I just made them." "I can tell they're not your design. Your things are more..." he paused and Amaya braced herself. "Raw... elemental... why don't you work with real gemstones, instead of semi-precious stones?" "Uncut precious stones are insanely expensive. Semi-precious stones are cheap and easy to find and if they're damaged in any way while I'm setting them, it's no big deal." He grunted again, obviously barely hearing her as he went bac

Well, now she will listen to his opinion. And the master did not deceive her expectations, sharply looking up at her, indignantly poking his finger at the album, imperceptibly switching to Italian: “But wait, what nonsense is this! What nonsense! What an alloy! Okay, here's a fine silver option here, but base metal alloys, my dear, who's going to buy that? And behold, behold! - the master almost choked with indignation, - what kind of ornamental stones are these? Here I also saw pearls, okay, semi-precious stones, but ornamental, gems. Who cares about them! Oh, I felt that it would be difficult with you, but I did not expect this.

"Hell, I think Quincy, Ellie, and Jennie are the crazy ones here. Ellie and Jennie actually called their own family member a nutjob, while Quincy refused to acknowledge her own son, instead defending some bum." "Wait, don't you think all three of them were sponsoring that gigolo?" Hearing those remarks, Harold, my mother, Ellie, and Jennie were all glaring at me, clearly aggrieved. But it was obvious none of them expected that the instant I was reborn, I called Grandpa for help. Holding their gazes, I simply shrugged and asked, "What are you looking at? Afraid to own up to what you did?" Grandpa nodded in agreement. "James is right. If you dare to do it, then don't be afraid to admit it!"

Now all four of us was stuck in here. “Great plan.” Ruben scoffed. “You should have just left with the gems. They would have released us eventually. My father wouldn’t have let them keep us.” I sat down. “It doesn’t matter because I have the gems.” I opened my bag. “So how do I use them…?” “None of those gems can help us,” Ruben said. “You don’t know which are which do you?” Lexus asked. “You don’t know how she’s supposed to use them either.”

Kael wrapped his arms around my waist and buried his face on my back. “A few days ago, they gave me many gems and made me choose ten.” “Do you remember what you chose?” He asked, his face still pressed against my back. I shook my head. “Not all, as I didn’t know all the gems. But among those I choose, the ones that are familiar are Sapphire, Citrine, Amethyst, Ruby, Emerald, and Garnet. All the others, I was not familiar with.” I heard him mumble, repeating the ones I told him.

I mumbled, feeling on the verge of tears. “One day when you’re old enough, you will have access to every single thing here and then nothing will be hidden from you. I know it’s in your nature to be curious but just wait a little bit, okay?” she said, patting me lightly before she hugged me. “I won’t snoop around anymore but could you at least tell me what those gems are?” I said, then she released me and looked at me suspiciously. “They are gemstones which connect you to your one true mate,” she said.