Chapter 834

"Hmm?"Jessamine stood up and followed him out the door, then headed upstairs.

Jessamine let out a sigh of relief. She finally felt a bit more freedom to breathe. She had almost died of embarrassment just now, and Thaddeus clearly shared her sentiment.

It was now just the two of them again.

Thaddeus took out a ruby from the safe, the same one he had won at the exhibition last time. It was the gemstone that had made Layla quite envious for a while.

When Thaddeus recalled it now, he thought it was quite interesting how fate worked. At that time, he and Layla were fighting over the gemstone, which was kind of unfair to her since he was much older. The funny thing was that they both wanted to give it to the same person.

No matter what, the gemstone rightfully belonged to Jessamine.

Jessamine looked at it for a long time before saying, "I like it. Thaddeus, when did you start the habit of collecting jewelry?"

Jessamine was the one with this habit. Whenever the two of them traveled tog