Chapter 129: The Ice Jade

Trista’s POV

Did I like it?

Of course I did. It was impossible NOT to like.

“It’s not flashy,” he chuckled. “In fact, sitting beside all those other expensive gemstones, it looks kind of… I don’t know… naked.”

I chuckled along with him. The ice jade certainly didn’t have the glitz and glam of Liam’s expensive gemstones. They glittered and sparkled unabashedly in the light.

The ice jade, though, held no sparkle.

It had an entirely different sort of allure.

“I’ve never heard of ice jade before,” I said. “Where did you get this?”

“It’s from my grandmother’s collection,” Lucian said. “It was given to her when she was young, by a lover. She moved to Hong Kong and they missed each other desperately. One day, this appeared in the mail. He said it was a token of his love for her. And that it symbolized how much he missed her, like the way ‘the stars miss the moon when it’s a new moon’.” Lucian chuckled again. “He was apparently quite poetic, my grandmother’s lover.”

I smiled. It