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 refuse his request

had no sense of professional ethics. Even when Mr. Ferguson offered double

turned around and sued

Hudson family was

the studio all afternoon, hoping to catch

she spotted Leander still waiting, she offered

frowned. "I've been here the whole

have two exits. She used

was, realized what was

face darkened as he stalked

...

leave the hospital, but today was the Lantern Festival, and he insisted on

talk him out of it, even scolded him, but Stewart wouldn't budge. In the

him to bring Irwin

Stewart, dressed head-to-toe in black, climbed into the car, careful and

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