Chapter 705

All this time. My father knew the gem wasn’t ours by right. He’s taken it, hidden the truth under decades of wealth and power, passed it down like a crown to be polished… or at least he tried to.

I was strong enough without the stone, so I never required it. My father died before he could pass it on to me officially, so it ended up with my mother. She kept it in a lock box for all these years, wai