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?”

alley. Halfway through, he

didn’t reply, hearing him continue, “Your eyes reacted when I mentioned

all, both Andrew and Dustin were after her life. But Dustin

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palm after ending the call. Across from him, a man exuding an aura of austerity pinched a piece

what’s Michael after this

“The Ten Divine Panes.”

The scroll was the auction’s showstopper, its price

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you needed

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through the rain. “You didn’t get into a tussle with

circles of Beaconsfield and was unfamiliar to them. It

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

I fight

after Lot 8,

fight for Tessa, as in the past/most

Dustin’s generous with women, but not every woman is worth splurging on to woo

conservative estimates, would fetch around

to the window, the figures in

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

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