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

anyone who had no sense of professional ethics. Even when Mr. Ferguson offered double their original fee, she didn't

Mr. Ferguson turned

was

hoping to catch her. He stayed until nightfall,

the last to go; when she spotted Leander still waiting,

Leander frowned. "I've been here the

smiled. "We have two exits. She used the other

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

as he stalked

...

wasn't officially cleared to 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 end, Cedric gave in and signed the

to bring

dressed head-to-toe in black, climbed into the

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