Chapter 56

Brielle’s face was pale as she pulled out her smartphone, aiming it at Dustin’s face to start recording.

“Mr. Lynch, I wouldn’t be doing this if I wasn’t desperate to stay alive. A man of your stature surely wouldn’t stoop to quarrel with the likes of me, right? Just promise you won’t come after me again, and I won’t release this video of a woman flipping you over her shoulder.”

Dustin couldn’t help but laugh, still pondering the strength of her move, “You’ve trained?”

Brielle nodded, “Fourth-degree black belt.”

“Not bad.”

Brielle was taken aback, unable to fathom what was going through this man’s mind. Was he actually complimenting her?

She saved the video, no longer pinning Dustin down with her knee. Dustin’s shirt was drenched, and just then his phone started buzzing.

Standing aside, Brielle watched as his fingers deftly played with the gun, his whole demeanor casual and detached. In his eyes, human lives seemed as insignificant as dust. “Andrew, you’ve arrived?”

walk out of the alley. Halfway through, he paused and turned back to glance at

him continue, “Your eyes

all, both Andrew and Dustin were after her life. But Dustin didn’t wait for her refusal, abruptly grabbing her wrist and heading straight for

stretch Bugatti shimmered

palm after ending the call. Across from him, a man exuding an aura of austerity pinched a piece of paper between his fingertips

what’s Michael after this

“The Ten Divine Panes.”

was the auction’s showstopper, its price yet

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needed

the work of a court painter from the 17th century. Michael had

glanced outside. Two blurred figures approached through the rain.

unfamiliar to them.

and Dustin, notorious in those circles as a playboy,

would I

both after Lot 8,

the past/most of these valuable items would end up being sent to

after Lot 8. Dustin’s generous with women, but not every woman is worth splurging on to woo

timepiece, by conservative estimates, would fetch

gaze returned to the window, the figures in the rain

intent on holding on tightly. Once they

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