StarNovelGina was getting more frustrated by the minute. "Hah! Still trying to fool me? Cindy had Randall Young of Square Street appraise it personally. That man is a specialist, and he said it's a glass orb worth no more than twenty bucks—or are you saying he's wrong?! Don't think you can have my daughter with a mere trinket. At least payfifty million dollars in dowry if you want to marry her!" Even as Gina pulled Helen along, glaring at Frank viciously, Helen tried to calm things down. "Did you make a mistake, Mom? Frank would never make a mistake." "A mistake?! The evidence is right there! Frank is a liar!" Gina snapped angrily. "He might even be lying about forcing Titus Lionheart to submit! Don't fall for his lies, Helen!" "Enough!" Frank snapped coolly but keeping his voice low as he could see the Southstream Lanes were watching them gleefully. "Where's Cindy? Why don't you ask her?" "C-Cindy?" Gina was suddenly stammering. "S-Something cup at her college, and she was told to return abroad." "So you're an idiot." Frank snorted.
"What did you just say to me?!" Gina strode up, ready to hit him.
Helen caught her, however, and snapped impatiently, "Stop it, Mom! Where's the ruby now?" "l-lt's." Gina stammered again. "Cindy said she threw it away in frustration. It's not worth anything anyway..." "What." Seeing how stupid her mother was, Helen laughed despite herself. "Don't you know what Cindy's like? Do you think she'd tell you if she took the ruby for an appraisal and it turned out to be real?" "No way!" Gina shook her head. "It's just a ruby—she'd never lie to me." "If she didn't lie to you, where is she now?" Frank interrufa bluntly.
"What." Gina choked as if swallowing a fly.
"Also," Frank added, "that ruby was a property of Talnam royalty and worth at least ten billion dollars in cash." "Ten billion in cash?!" Gina's mouth widened into a circular shape in shock, but she soon shook her head. "No, you're definitely lying! You're a pathological liar. It's just impossible!" "Con, Mom. It's true!" Helen snapped.
Though it was the first tshe heard about how much the ruby was worth, she trusted Frank unconditionally and urged, "Call Cindy already, Mom. Tell her to bring that ruby back." "Oh, dream on. If my hunch is right, Cindy's already sold it," Frank said, shaking his head—he was more than familiar with Cindy's behavior. "And right now, she'd be abroad indulging herself." "Curse you, Cindy! I'll kill you!" Gina almost jumped as she whipped out her phone, but the only response she got was static beeping.
Helen did the same. "I can't get through either, Mom." "Goddamnit..." Gina groaned.
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