Regretting The Wife He Threw Away

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.

told Hannah to refuse his

anyone who had no sense of professional ethics. Even when Mr. Ferguson offered double their original

Mr. Ferguson turned around and sued

family was thrown

the studio all afternoon, hoping to catch her. He stayed

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

"I've been here

exits.

as he sometimes was, realized what was going on.

darkened as he stalked away in

...

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

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

Carl and asked him to

out front. Stewart, dressed head-to-toe in black, climbed into the car, careful