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

reply, hearing him continue, “Your eyes reacted when

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

black stretch Bugatti shimmered through

spacious car, Andrew flipped his phone in his palm after ending the call. Across from him, a man exuding an aura of austerity

Michael after

“The Ten Divine Panes.”

aside. The scroll was the auction’s

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you needed to

before. It was the work of a court painter from the 17th

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

of Beaconsfield and was unfamiliar to them. It was unexpected that he would join Andrew at the

set, and Dustin, notorious in those circles

I

after

a one-of-a-kind timepiece. Andrew would certainly fight for Tessa, as in the past/most of these valuable items would

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

conservative estimates, would fetch around

the figures in

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

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