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?”

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

“Your eyes reacted when I mentioned Andrew’s

after her life. But Dustin didn’t wait for her refusal, abruptly grabbing her wrist and

Bugatti shimmered

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

what’s Michael after this

“The Ten Divine Panes.”

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

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you needed to

the work of a court painter

blurred figures approached through the rain. “You didn’t get into a

wasn’t a regular in the social circles of Beaconsfield and was unfamiliar to them. It was unexpected that he would join Andrew at

notorious in those circles as a playboy, had a

would I fight

after

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

with women, but not every woman is

estimates, would fetch around

returned to the window, the figures in the rain

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

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