"What kind of business adventures have you been financing?" I ask curiously. "The obvious, of course. Somebody has to finance the expeditions to find the gems. It is near impossible to find them without digging." He says like I am completely oblivious to the concept of mining. I share yet another look with Sadie. Apparently, he thinks that I do not really know much of what goes on in this business. It must be because of the fact that I am the brand new CEO that he thinks he can talk to me this way. While we do have expeditions that go out looking for gems in mines, most of our gems come from our partners that are the ones that put in the real effort. After they find them, we buy them and have another of our companies clean them and cut them before placing them into jewelry or leaving who

