Chapter 499

• A custom pearl-and-gem tiara featuring Mystic Pearls and me offering Kiera free rein over the entire third floor? It felt like a statement. There was a time when I used to gift Chloe with jewelry and designer clothes every season. I was generous, always extending a hand. I even promised to help secure her a substantial dowry when her engagement was official.
• But now, the narrative had shifted. That dowry was being arranged for someone else.
• Today, Chloe had arrived at The Golden Tower with Viola, ostensibly to select her dowry pieces. But Viola barely glanced beyond the first floor cheap, cautious choices, nothing close to the premium collections upstairs. They hadn’t even considered the second floor, let alone the third, where the elite pieces those worthy of true status were displayed.