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?”

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

reply, hearing him continue, “Your eyes reacted

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

black stretch Bugatti

call. Across from him, a man exuding an aura of austerity pinched a piece of paper

what’s Michael

“The Ten Divine Panes.”

was the auction’s

ניר

needed

appeared in auctions before. It was the work of a court painter

figures approached through the rain.

unfamiliar to

set, and Dustin, notorious in those circles as a playboy, had a reputation

I

both after Lot 8,

8 was a one-of-a-kind timepiece. Andrew would certainly fight for Tessa, as in the past/most of these valuable items would

I’m after Lot 8. Dustin’s generous with women, but not every woman is

estimates, would fetch around

returned to the window, the figures in the rain becoming

Dustin’s grip, but he seemed intent on holding on tightly. Once they were seated in the more subdued Mulsanne, Dustin called Andrew

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