Chloe snatched up the microphone, her face a picture of anger. "Here at the White family auction house, we don't deal in fakes!" she announced.
"I can assure everyone that the items displayed were genuine. But now, under my very eyes, someone has swapped out the original for a fake... Someone has stolen the Heart of Van Cleef!"
The audience was visibly shocked. "Who would be so bold?"
The thought that Chloe might be behind a theft herself seemed less credible now. After all, she didn't really have a motive.
Moreover, she was making a big show of the incident, having shut down the entire auction and ordering everyone to stay put for a search.
"This crowd is full of the wealthy and the noble. Who would be greedy enough to steal the Heart of Van Cleef? It's not even the most expensive pi
