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.

Hannah to

who had no sense of professional ethics.

turned around

family was thrown into

afternoon, hoping to catch her. He stayed until nightfall, but

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

been here the whole time-I didn't see

exits.

Leander, slow as he sometimes was, realized what was going on.

face darkened as he stalked

...

the hospital, but today was the Lantern Festival,

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

and asked him to bring Irwin

out front. Stewart, dressed head-to-toe

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