Hannah burst out, "Can you believe Sophia quoted Mr. Ferguson half our price? It's obvious she's targeting us on purpose!"

Half the price?

Briony just smiled.

"Briony! How are you still smiling right now?" Hannah glared at her, frustrated. "That's downright underhanded! She's blatantly breaking the rules-completely shameless!"

"It's fine." Briony patted Hannah's shoulder reassuringly. "Mr. Ferguson will come back to us."

At those words, Hannah finally relaxed. Briony never made promises lightly-if she said it with that kind of certainty, she must have a plan.

Sure enough, on the night of the Lantern Festival, Mr. Ferguson called again.

Sophia had messed up-badly.

She'd botched the restoration of a late 19th-century porcelain vase, leaving it almost unrecognizable.

Now, Mr. Ferguson had no choice but to come back to Briony.

to

sense of professional ethics. Even when Mr. Ferguson offered double their original

turned around

family was

hoping to catch

left. Hannah was the last to go; when she spotted Leander still waiting, she offered a "helpful” reminder:

frowned. "I've been here the whole time-I didn't

exits.

he sometimes was, realized what was going on. Briony was deliberately avoiding

face darkened as he stalked away in

...

but today was the Lantern Festival, and he insisted

tried to talk him out of it, even scolded him, but Stewart wouldn't budge. In the end, Cedric gave in

him to

up out front. Stewart, dressed head-to-toe in

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