Mending Gems Breaking Billionaires

Summary

Under the blinding glare of the chandelier, the tension in the auction house was thick enough to choke on. The royal nineteenth-century bridal diadem—a masterpiece of gold filigree and sapphires that I had spent the last three years painstakingly restoring with my own hands—was sold. Lennon Caldwell had just won it with an astronomical, record-breaking bid.

But the real shock didn't come from the price tag. It came when he turned around and casually placed that historically profound, breathtakingly irreplaceable artifact onto the perfectly coiffed head of Hollywood’s newest It-girl.