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.

Briony told Hannah to refuse his

no sense of professional ethics. Even when Mr.

Ferguson turned

was thrown into

Leander Hudson-waited outside the studio all afternoon, hoping to catch her. He stayed until nightfall, but Briony never

spotted Leander still

frowned. "I've been here the

"We have two exits. She used the other

as he sometimes was, realized what was going on. Briony

he stalked

...

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

but Stewart

called Carl and asked him to bring Irwin to the law

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

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