Chapter 202

“It’s hard to say for sure. Probably close to ten million dollars.”

She felt the blood drain from her head, leaving her woozy and weak. “So much?”

“On the black market, they’ll probably sell for a bit less. These days anything that comes out of a cutting house is laser cut with the Messina Diamonds logo and a serial number, which means in order to be sold again, they have to be recut. But once that’s done—”

“They’ll be untraceable.” She finished the sentence for him. “That’s a huge amount of money. But I don’t understand. How could anyone have possibly known the diamonds would be here tonight? Didn’t you say there are rarely diamonds here at all?”

“That’s the point. They couldn’t have known. They must have had an inside man.”

Both Candace and Nolan sat in silence as he drove her home. Naturally, she’d protested that she didn’t need the ride. He’d expected that and eventually his insistence had worn her down. Under other circumstances, he might have fel