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?”

up, began to walk out of the alley.

him continue, “Your eyes reacted when I mentioned

Dustin didn’t wait for her refusal, abruptly grabbing her wrist and

stretch Bugatti shimmered through the

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

what’s Michael

“The Ten Divine Panes.”

The scroll was the auction’s showstopper, its price yet

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you needed

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

figures approached through the rain. “You didn’t

a regular in the social circles of Beaconsfield and was unfamiliar

were even more intricate than the Beaconsfield set, and Dustin, notorious in those

I fight

both after

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

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

by conservative estimates, would

returned to the window, the figures in

Once they were seated in the

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