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?”

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

hearing him continue, “Your eyes reacted

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

Bugatti

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

what’s Michael after this

“The Ten Divine Panes.”

the catalogue aside. The scroll was the auction’s showstopper, its price

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wonder you needed

work of a court painter from

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

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

Dustin, notorious in those circles as a playboy, had a reputation as tarnished as that of a

I fight

both after Lot 8,

Tessa, as in the past/most of these

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

by conservative estimates, would fetch

to the window, the figures in the

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

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