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?”

response was, Dustin, after hanging up, began to walk out of the alley. Halfway through, he paused

him continue, “Your eyes reacted

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

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

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“The Ten Divine Panes.”

aside. The scroll was the auction’s showstopper,

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needed to

never appeared in auctions before. It was the work of a court

the rain. “You didn’t get into a

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

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

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fight for Tessa, as in the past/most of these valuable items would end

8. Dustin’s generous with women, but not every

conservative estimates, would fetch around eighty

returned to the window, the figures in

he seemed intent on holding on tightly. Once they were seated in the more subdued Mulsanne, Dustin called

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