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

“Your eyes reacted when

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

stretch Bugatti shimmered through

spacious car, Andrew flipped his phone in his palm after ending the call. Across from him, a man

what’s Michael after this

“The Ten Divine Panes.”

was the auction’s showstopper, its

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you needed to come

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

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

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

Dustin, notorious in those circles as a playboy, had a

would I fight

both after Lot 8,

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

women, but not every woman is worth splurging on

timepiece, by conservative estimates, would fetch around

window, the figures in the

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

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