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

work with anyone who had no sense of professional ethics. Even when Mr. Ferguson offered

Mr. Ferguson turned

family was thrown into a

uncle-Sophia's father, Leander Hudson-waited outside the studio all afternoon, hoping to

was the last to go; when she spotted Leander still

here

two exits.

was, realized what was going on. Briony was deliberately

face darkened as he stalked away

...

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

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

asked him to bring Irwin to the law

dressed head-to-toe

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