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?”

the alley. Halfway through, he

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

wanted to deny knowing him. After all, both Andrew and Dustin were after her life. But Dustin didn’t wait

stretch Bugatti shimmered

after ending the call. Across from him, a man

Michael after this

“The Ten Divine Panes.”

scroll was the

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needed to come

was the work of a court painter from the 17th

glanced outside. Two blurred figures approached through the rain.

social circles of Beaconsfield and was unfamiliar to them. It was unexpected that he would join Andrew

Dustin, notorious in those

would I fight

both after Lot 8,

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

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

by conservative estimates, would fetch around

returned to the window, the

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

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