In that instant, Circe’s face flushed red with anger.
He promised to refine the pill for Evelyn and ran away, and for two days, she did not hear back from him. Now he decided to show up because he needed a favor.
Circe remained calm and answered coldly, “Yeah, the Heart of the Ocean is what I’m wearing on my neck right now.”
‘This was great news! ’ Darryl thought.
His face flushed with joy and excitement. He felt as if the heaviness in his heart had been relieved. Upon a closer look at her neck, he saw a white gold necklace with a blue-colored gemstone hanging on it. Its surface was so smooth and reflective that you could feel its presence even standing a few meters away. Not only that, but you could smell its unique lingering scent vaguely.
‘The Heart of Ocean was indeed a real treasure! ’ Darryl thought.
At this instant, Darryl was stunned by the sight of it and trembled a little. He looked at Circe sincerely and asked, “Miss Newman? Could you please sell this to me?”
‘He wanted to buy The Heart of Ocean? Haha! ’ Circe thought.
Suddenly, all the ladies around them started laughing.
‘What was this idiot thinking? Did he think he was buying a necklace at the market? Could he even afford it?’ the ladies laughed to themselves.
Among the laughter ringing in the air, Evelyn sneered, “Darryl, what’s wrong with your brain? You want to buy it from Circe? Do you know how much it costs?”
Darryl nodded without hesitation, “I do. Ten billion bucks.”
Evelyn laughed at his response. “It was ten billion bucks when Circe’s family bought it. But that was ten years ago!”
The ladies resumed their laughter.
“Yeah, ten billion bucks then is incomparable to ten billion bucks now! ”
“Huh, why are you even telling him that? Look at his dumb face and his cheap clothes. Don’t bother about ten billion; I doubt he even has a million bucks with him! ”
Darryl did not speak and smiled faintly at their remarks.
Meanwhile, Evelyn snarked, “Do you know that there’s only one Heart of the Ocean in the world? It was worth ten billion bucks ten years ago. Now it’s worth at least 20 billion bucks! ” She looked at Darryl with disdain. “Looking at you and your poor face, do you even know how much twenty billion bucks is? Even one truck can’t carry all that cash. You’d need a few trucks to do so. Do you understand? If you were to count every note, you’d be counting for the rest of your life. Do you get it?”
“I’d buy it if it’s two hundred billion bucks,” Darryl declared without hesitation.
He knew that there were at least 60 billion bucks in his account right now. Also, the Platinum Corporation had been doing quite well recently with their new show 101 Superstar making decent profits. He could get hold of a few hundred billion bucks from the company. If that was not enough, he could phone up Felix Blakely or Wayne Woodall. Two hundred billion bucks was not a big deal. Even getting two thousand billion bucks was possible if he really needed it.
Of course, the Newman family was the wealthiest people in Kyoto, but even a wealthy family would not reject earning a few extra hundreds of billions of bucks! Darryl was determined to get a hold of the Heart of the Ocean today, even if it meant going bankrupt. Only the Heart of the Ocean could save Dax’s life, and that was all that mattered.
Meanwhile, the ladies could no longer hold back their laughter and started laughing uncontrollably. They looked at Darryl like he was an idiot.
“He really was a good liar! He says he could afford it. Who was he kidding! ’ they laughed to themselves.