Chapter 17: Black Dragon Jade Pendant

Liam Cutmore roared in fury, his voice like thunder cracking over a mountaintop, shaking the soul out of anyone who heard it. Noah Cutmore went pale on the spot. Whatever lingering schemes he had died instantly. He scrambled back to his room and hurriedly produced a jade pendant. Thank God he had not sold it. If he had, today would have ended in disaster. The pendant was pitch-black from edge to edge, dull as a river stone, ordinary at a glance. Yet a lifelike black dragon was carved across it,...