Chapter 312: Trey Casson's Seclusion

Ariel Letherdale's cheeks flushed. "I didn't expect it to be a salted fish either. But how could a salted fish make the bead glow?" She pulled the bead out again. Its light had grown even brighter, as if it still insisted the salted fish was some priceless treasure. Something stirred in Salvatore Casson's mind. He took the fish, pressed along its body, and felt a hard lump in the belly. He tore the fish in half. A sapphire-blue ring tumbled out and clinked onto the ground. Ariel snatched it up,...