Chapter 155

Sonia sneered before she pulled out the other key that Rose had given her. She tried the key out onevery door in the house until she finally managed to unlock the door that led her to the storage room.She wasn’t entirely surprised—her stepmother and sister had sold off most of the valuable items in thehouse, so the storage room was probably the last and only place that still had some items in it. A layer ofdust found its way to her face the moment she pushed the door open.

With one hand clamped over her nose and her mouth, she used her other hand to wave off the dust infront of her face. When most of the dust finally settled, she released her hand from her face beforeturning the lights on and walking into the room. “Oh gosh!” Her head hurt when she saw the cobwebsand scattered items that filled the room. This room is filled with stuff how am I supposed to replace anythinghere? She was tempted to give up, but she eventually took a deep breath and clenched her fists beforewalking into the room. I’ve come all the way here, after all. I’ll still have to hunt for it the next time if I don’treplace it this time. After some digging around, her entire being was coated with dirt and dust. She lookedlike a stray cat out of the gutter. Fortunately, she also managed to replace a box that looked like it mightcarry the necklace that Rose had been talking about. The tiny leather suitcase didn’t have a lock on it, soshe had no trouble opening it up. There were a bunch of lipsticks, foundation bottles, earrings, bracelets,and other items in it—the suitcase was a mess. She finally found a necklace after some rummaging. “Isthis the one?” She tilted her head to look at the necklace as she held it up to the light. This was the onlynecklace she found in the entire storage room, so she assumed that it was the right one.

Well, it’s just an old, rusty necklace. What sort of secret could a thing like this hold? Confused, shelowered the necklace into her palm and poked around on the red onyx pendant that dangled from it. Hereyes narrowed with suspicion as she realized how the necklace looked rather familiar to her at thatmoment. I’ve seen this somewhere. Where have I seen it? After some contemplation, her eyes widenedas she got her answer.

“Julia!” That’s right! I’ve seen it on Julia’s neck. She recalled how Julia wore a necklace that lookedalmost identical to the one in her hand. Back when Sonia first saw Julia’s necklace, she had assumedthat Julia kept the necklace around as a memento. I remember wondering why Julia didn’t change into adifferent necklace—I recall how the necklace looked outdated and worn. The stone wasn’t evengleaming anymore. Well, it seems like the necklace is more than a keepsake to Julia now—she’sprobably holding onto it for some other reason. But I don’t get how the necklace that Julia owns hasanything to do with the one I’m holding.

Sonia concluded that it was impossible for both the necklaces to simply have similar designs to eachother. The letters ‘DT’ were carved onto the backs of both the pendants. DT Jewelry was one of the mostluxurious brands globally, and most of the accessories they produced were limited edition items—there’donly been one of each in the whole world. It was impossible for there to be two pendants of the samedesign.

One explanation is that one of the necklaces is a well-made imitation and not actually an original DTnecklace. Otherwise, both of the necklaces must be somehow related to one another. With that thought,Sonia kept the necklace into her bag and left the villa hastily. Half an hour later, she arrived at the malland headed directly to DT Jewelry’s counter. “Hello, miss. How can I help you?” the female worker askedwith a smile.

Sonia pulled the necklace out of her bag. “I’d like to check if this necklace was manufactured by DT.” Thelady took the necklace into her hands and stared at it for a while before she flashed Sonia a ratherbashful smile. “My apologies. This necklace looks like it was made a long while ago, so I can’t be sure ifit’s manufactured by us. Why don’t you hold on for a while? I’ll get my manager to take a look at it.”“Alright.”

Sonia nodded. The lady poured Sonia some coffee before she went off to look for her manager. Forapproximately ten minutes, Sonia sipped on the cup of coffee in her hand while she waited patiently forthe lady and her manager to get back to her. “Does this necklace belong to you, miss?” the manager

asked once he finally showed up. Sonia nodded. “To be precise, my father was the one who passed itdown to me.” “I see.” The manager beamed as he lowered the necklace onto a piece of black velvetcloth. “DT Jewelry was indeed the one who manufactured this necklace, miss.

I ran through our files and found out that this necklace was made 20 years ago. Someone called Mr.Gray had hired one of our designers just to create this piece.” “Mr. Gray?” Sonia’s eyes lit up as shethought of Julia. “Is the man’s name Titus Gray?” “That’s right. According to our files, Mr. Gray’s wife hadjust given birth to a daughter back then. Mr. Gray ordered our designers to come up with a specialmother-daughter necklace for both his wife and his daughter.

That design is the one that you’re holding in your hands now. This piece that you have should be thedaughter’s necklace.” The manager had other thoughts running in his mind while he responded toSonia. Mr. Gray was the one who customized this necklace, and this woman says that her father gave itto her. That must mean that Mr. Gray is her father. Yet, she refers to Mr. Gray by his full name, and hervoice sounds rather cold when she says it.

Could both of them have a bad relationship with each other? Sonia furrowed her brows. My guess wasright. Both of these necklaces are related to each other. The one Mrs. Gray has is the mother’s necklace,while the one with me is the daughter’s necklace. If that’s the case, then this necklace should be withTina. What is it doing in the Reed Family’s hands? Could something have happened between the Reedsand the Grays 20 years ago?

She bit onto her bottom lip. It seems like I’ll have to understand what happened between the Reeds andthe Grays 20 years ago to solve the mystery behind this necklace. It’d be impossible to get the GrayFamily to tell me anything—they’d never open their mouths. I’ll have to do some research on my own. “Igot it. Thank you. Could you please polish this necklace a little?” Sonia asked with a smile. “Of course.”The manager nodded.

Sonia handed the necklace over to one of the staff members, who proceeded to polish and clean thenecklace. It was a quick process—Sonia only had to wait for two minutes before it was done. She leftafter purchasing a pair of earrings from the store. Julia arrived at the store a while after Sonia left. Themanager came forward to greet Julia personally. “The bracelet you previously ordered has arrived, Mrs.Gray. I’ll bring it over to you immediately.”

“Sure.” Julia nodded with a faint smile. The manager unlocked the safe box and retrieved an emeraldgreen bracelet from it. “Please take a look, Mrs. Gray. Is this what you were looking for?” Julia took thebracelet into her hands and studied it for a while. The smile on her lips widened. “It looks good to me. I’llput it on right now.” “Let me help you,” the manager offered. “It’s fine. I’ll do it on my own.” Julia rejectedthe manager’s offer and wore the bracelet by herself.

The manager didn’t insist after that—he simply continued to smile at Julia. Right then, the managernoticed the necklace Julia was wearing. “I’ve always heard rumors of Miss Gray being a beauty, Mrs.Gray. The rumors were true—her eyes look just like yours.” Happiness spread across Julia’s face whenshe heard the manager praising her daughter. “Thank you for your sweet words. Did Tina drop byearlier?” The manager figured that Tina was Miss Gray’s name, so he nodded politely. “That’s right. Shecame over to ask about her necklace.

Well, that’s odd—it seems like Miss Gray had no idea that the necklace she owned was a pair that wasmade along with yours, Mrs. Gray.” Upon hearing the manager’s words, Julia’s bracelet fell onto thecountertop before she managed to put it on. The manager winced as a sharp clang sounded. Heimmediately picked the bracelet up to check if it had been scratched after it struck the countertop. “Whatdid you just say? Did you say that Tina brought the other necklace over to ask you about it?”

Julia glared at the manager as she questioned him in a rather impatient tone. The manager couldn’tunderstand what was going on, so he simply nodded with a puzzled expression. “Yeah.” “That’simpossible!” Julia shook her head furiously. Titus and I bought the necklace for Rina, and the necklace

disappeared after Rina passed away. How could Tina have the necklace with her? There’s no way Tinacame over to ask about the necklace.

Does that mean that Rina was the one who visited the store? Is Rina alive? Julia grabbed onto themanager’s arm as she considered the possibility that her daughter wasn’t dead. “You said somethingearlier. You said that the girl’s eyes looked like mine, didn’t you?” Julia cried.

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