Chapter 63
The young man paused and slowly adjusted his camera lens. The camera settled on Brielle’s face, and the chat erupted once again.
“Yep, that’s Brielle. Man, you gotta ask her what she’s doing at the gala.”
“Could she have been, you know, taken under the wing by someone influential? There were always whispers about her being a bit of a wild card.”
“I’ve always been curious, where do all these rumors come from? I was in class with Brielle, and she always kept to herself.”
“Must be someone close to her spreading the gossip. I remember some forum posts about her supposedly being harsh to her sister, or was it a foster child? Anyway, she’s crafty.”
The
young man frowned slightly at the relentless stream of comments.
Anyone who graduated from Beaconsfield College in the last couple of years would recognize Brielle, but Brielle was so discreet, turning down all extracurriculars, that her classmates hardly ever saw her.
her first day, but soon after she
grew wilder, with photos of her in luxury cars surfacing and forum insiders spilling
Hartley Group is chatting with Brielle? What could they
about?”
see if there’s some shady
had no choice but to inch
indeed standing with the CEO of Hartley Group, Flynn, who had approached her first. He was the
earlier reveal, figured everyone knew about Max’s rumored
conversation flowed from the final lot, Salvator Mundi, to the works
Jacques-Louis David.
Flynn was a romantic at heart. He believed in the
a way
philosophical edge.
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with the business framework. Take Taleb’s books, for instance. They discuss
to business, toasting Flynn with a smile. “It’s about
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