“Hey, don’t waste time while you’re in there. I can’t stand this city and I really want to go home as soon as possible” Matilda said and Mr. Rogers grunted.“You got it, babe.” Mr. Rogers replied then placed his hand over one of his jacket’s pockets which had the Blood Cross in it “Like you said, this is an almost worthless piece of crap jewelry so it shouldn’t waste more than a couple of minutes to get this done”“I hope so,” Matilda said with a frown then Mr. Rogers opened his driver's door and went out of the car.“See you later with hopefully some change for gas and a hot meal,” Mr. Rogers said to Matilda through the open door window then he walked to the pawn shop and went inside.The moment he pushed the door of the pawn shop, the bell above the door chimed to let the shop’s owner know that a new customer had just walked in.“Welcome my fine sir, what would you like to pawn with us today?” The owner of the pawn shop said then noticed Mr. Rogers having a look around at the items

“This is such a rare mineral and holy shit, this weight too. To have this much Oat Stone is crazy— but wait, if I remember correctly there’s been a few Oat Stone jewelry brought in and out of the Jewelry empires I used to work for. Also, didn’t I handle one of said jewelry? If so then why didn’t I recognize this immediately because I would have with any other material” the owner of the pawn shop pondered as he stared at the Blood Cross necklace.Just then, his eyes widened as something came to his mind.“Wait a minute, didn’t the name in the book say Pure Oat Stone?” He asked himself then rushed to look at the book again, focusing on the mineral name section.Once the owner of the pawn shop saw it, he tapped on the name multiple times with his fingertip.“That’s right, Pure Oat Stone is what it says here. Let me read more on this to get a better understanding of what’s going on” the owner of the pawn shop said then read through the texts on the page.Inside the book, he discovered that

“Huh?” The owner of the pawn shop said in a panic.“The phone, who that on it?” Mr. Rogers asked as he walked up to the owner of the shop all the while having a threatening demeanor.“Oh, this?” The owner of the shop said then chuckled nervously “I was just talking to another client of mine while you were out getting the fine-looking lady over there”The owner of the pawn shop looked and smiled at Matilda as he tried to get her on his side but instead got an eye roll and a scoff back from her.“You don’t get to talk to my woman so don’t ever do that again. In fact, you don’t get to look at her so look at me.” Mr. Rogers said. In response, the owner of the shop did as told and then gulped.“Why are you on the phone with someone else when you should be finding out the name of the mineral that my necklace is made out of?” Mr. Rogers asked and the owner of the shop fake smiled.“That’s because I already found the name of the mineral that the necklace is made out of. I wouldn’t have been o

"What do you mean by that?" Mr. Rogers asked then looked at Matilda "Babe, do you understand what he meant by that?"Matilda shook her head "No I don't" she said then looked at the owner of the pawn shop and asked, "What did you mean by jewelry empires take a lot of time?"The owner of the pawn shop who had used his words to control the situation shrugged He said, "I used to work in those types of businesses and I for one know how they operate.""How do they operate?" A curious Matilda asked"Well, for one thing, they barely take jewelry from random people from the street but I won't lie, they might if they see this. The only problem is that they will need documents of ownership and even if you can provide that, they'll still have to hand over the jewelry to their appraisal team which will take a week or two to tell you what the price of the necklace is before they buy it from you. If you can wait for two weeks for the money then please be my guest. I'll even recommend the jewelry em

"You got our money ready, right?" Mr. Rogers asked as he and Matilda finally got to the counter and he started resting his weight on it.The owner of the pawn shop smiled from ear to ear as he tried to act like nothing fishy was going on. If those two could read minds then he knew just how badly they would react to what he did behind their backs."Of course I did. What do you think I've been doing for the past couple of hours while you were busy eating and resting like VIP guests in my motel? It took all the contacts I have in my phone and then some to get the money we agreed on. My mouth and legs hurt from how much talking and standing I've been doing since you went to the motel but it's all good because I was finally able to get everything we agreed on and not a single penny short—"Mr. Rogers cut him off "Yeah yeah, we get it. You've worked hard making calls and talking for hours, whatever! Instead of wasting more of our time rambling, why don't you go ahead and show us the money"