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?”

hanging up, began to walk out of the alley. Halfway through, he paused and turned back to glance at Brielle, “You know

him continue, “Your eyes reacted when

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

Bugatti shimmered through

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

what’s Michael after

“The Ten Divine Panes.”

was the auction’s showstopper,

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needed to

was the work of a court painter from the

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

and was unfamiliar to them. It was unexpected that he

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

I fight

after Lot 8,

in the past/most of these valuable

generous with women, but not every woman is worth splurging on

timepiece, by conservative estimates, would fetch around

the figures

on holding on tightly. Once they were

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