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?”

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

reply, hearing him continue, “Your eyes reacted when I mentioned Andrew’s

and Dustin were after her life. But Dustin didn’t wait for her refusal, abruptly grabbing her wrist and heading straight for the black car

black stretch Bugatti

Across from him, a man

what’s Michael after this

“The Ten Divine Panes.”

the catalogue aside. The scroll was the auction’s showstopper, its price yet to

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needed to

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

Two blurred figures approached through the

regular in the social circles of Beaconsfield and was unfamiliar to them. It

than the Beaconsfield set, and Dustin, notorious in those circles as a playboy, had a reputation as tarnished as that of a

I fight

after Lot 8,

for Tessa, as in the past/most of these valuable items would end up being sent to the Rowland

after Lot 8. Dustin’s generous with women, but not

by conservative estimates, would fetch around

window, the

to shake off Dustin’s grip, but he seemed intent on holding on tightly. Once they were seated in the more subdued

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