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Chapter 72 - 72

This was a rare opportunity, and it required some fast, delicate work. You couldn't steal the matched emeralds. That would have been too obvious—not to mention difficult, given how precisely they were set.

But the diamond choker was another story. There were dozens of smaller but still high-quality gems in there. You brought the choker to a not-fully-honest jeweler acquaintance. Together you exchanged about $75,000 worth of GIA-certified, internally flawless, ideal-cut gems for an equal weight in much cheaper lab-grown diamonds. Your jeweler kept the retrieved stones to sell onward in new settings.

Profit: around $45,000, divided between you and your jeweler acquaintance.

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