Chapter 20: Knowing How to Lose and Then Win

POV RICHARD

"Is that what I'm thinking?" My father's eyes widen and his emotion is almost, if not, the same as that of a man facing his wife in labor for giving him a legitimate heir.

He walks over to the precious stones and touches them as carefully as he would a crystal.

" Diamonds, Dad! Diamonds!" I repeat loud and clear, so that there is no doubt "With just those three, we have London at our feet. If we find more, the world..." I speak without modesty, after all it's not every day that a fortune comes into our lives and much less into my bed.

"How did this happen?" my father interjects, and until the end it is time for me to step up to the podium, or not...

" Whatever it is, not everything is won yet. " He says.

Unfortunately Mr. Jeremy knows his son and does not allow me to gloat before the time.

"Yes, Father. But you don't know what I have discovered, the skyfallers, they are wolves! " I reveal with all my enthusiasm, expecting at the very least a hysterical reaction or cu