Tempted By my Evil Lycan Stepbrother novel Chapter 96

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Women screamed. Someone dropped a glass. Leon surged forward ift horror while the guards at the far end tensed, unsure whether they were even allowed to interferè yet.

Ezra reached into the shattered case and pulled out a sapphire earring.

Blood slid down his knuckles where the glass had cut him, but he didn’t even seem to notice.

“Be careful! Goddamn you” Leon shouted. “That piece is worth millions!”

Ezra glanced at him with contempt.

“I’ll write you a check.”

Then he held up the earring between two bloody fingers and looked at the room.

“But I’m pretty sure this is worth no more than a piece of glass. You’ve all beer fooled by Leon’s family.”

With that, he closed his fist. The sapphire shattered in his hand.

And Leon and his mother’s face turned pale at once.

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Chapter 95: Get Away From Her You Trash!

Riley’s POV

A shocked silence fell upon the room.

The shattered sapphire glittered in Ezra’s bloody palm while the whole ballrooma stared at him.

Yilia’s face had gone white. Leon looked like someone had slapped him on fre face.

Even my mother seemed frozen, her mouth slightly open, all that practiced poise gone at once.

Then the first wave of disbelief hit the room. Everybody was talking at the same time:

“That’s impossible.”

“Lady Yilia would never-This is for charity!”

“Surely this is some misunderstanding.”

The noblewomen didn’t want to believe it. Most of them had already admired the jewelry, praised Yilia’s “generosity,” and mentally placed bids on the pieces. To accept that they had been fooled so easily would mean admiting they were not half as clever as they liked to think.

Ezra looked around the room and raised on eyebrow, “Lady Cressida, would you do us the honor of taking a look at those jewelries?”

A woman near the front straightened up and nodded.

I recognized her at once.

Lady Cressida Vale. One of the older noblewomen in court, elegant and sharp-eyed. I hear that she was close to Ezra’s mother before she died.

Lady Cressida wasn’t the loudest woman in the room, but she was the kind people listened to when she finally spoke. No wonder Ezra would pick her.

Yilia immediately tried to recover the situation.

“No one should touch the pieces,” she said too quickly. “They are extremely valuable-”

“That’s funny,” Ezra said with a cold laugh, “because a minute ago I was told they were sturdy enough to survive transport. display, and bidding, but now they’re too fragile for a proper look?

A few heads turned sharply toward Yilia. She bit her lips and lapsed into silence.

Lady Cressida stepped forward.

This was the first time anyone had been allowed near the jewelry long enough to inspect it Until now. Yiha had kept everyone at

a distance, always smiling and saying the pieces were too rare, too delicate, too precious to be handledarelessly

At the time, it had sounded reasonable. But now it sounded suspicious as hell

A servant brought Lady Cressida a pair of gloves. She put them on slowly, then leaned over the nearest display tray

The ballroom had gone so quiet I could hear the rustle of her sleeves

She lifted one necklace first. Held it to the light. Turned it over Studied the metal at the clasp.

Then she reached for a bracelet, then a pair of earrings, then another necklace from the second tray.

My heart was pounding. Everyone was holding their breath, waiting for her conclusion

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