Master of his heart (Brielle and Max)

Chapter 56

Brielle’s face was pale as she pulled out her smartphone, aiming it at Dustin’s face to start recording.

“Mr. Lynch, I wouldn’t be doing this if I wasn’t desperate to stay alive. A man of your stature surely wouldn’t stoop to quarrel with the likes of me, right? Just promise you won’t come after me again, and I won’t release this video of a woman flipping you over her shoulder.”

Dustin couldn’t help but laugh, still pondering the strength of her move, “You’ve trained?”

Brielle nodded, “Fourth-degree black belt.”

“Not bad.”

Brielle was taken aback, unable to fathom what was going through this man’s mind. Was he actually complimenting her?

She saved the video, no longer pinning Dustin down with her knee. Dustin’s shirt was drenched, and just then his phone started buzzing.

Standing aside, Brielle watched as his fingers deftly played with the gun, his whole demeanor casual and detached. In his eyes, human lives seemed as insignificant as dust. “Andrew, you’ve arrived?”

Whatever the response was, Dustin, after hanging up, began to walk out of the alley. Halfway through, he paused and turned back to glance at Brielle, “You know him?”

Brielle didn’t reply, hearing him continue, “Your eyes reacted when I mentioned Andrew’s name.”

She wanted to deny knowing him. After all, both Andrew and Dustin were after her life. But Dustin didn’t wait for her refusal, abruptly grabbing her wrist and heading straight for the black car parked nearby.

stretch Bugatti shimmered through the

the spacious car, Andrew flipped his phone in his palm after ending the call. Across from him, a man exuding

what’s Michael after

“The Ten Divine Panes.”

aside. The scroll was the auction’s showstopper, its price

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wonder you needed to come

appeared in auctions before. It was the work of a court painter from the 17th century. Michael had always

outside. Two blurred figures approached through the rain.

was unfamiliar to them. It was unexpected that he would join Andrew at

and Dustin, notorious in those circles as a playboy, had a reputation as tarnished

would I fight

both after

certainly fight for Tessa, as in the past/most of these valuable items

women, but not every woman is

by conservative estimates, would

the figures in the rain becoming

tightly. Once they were seated in the more subdued Mulsanne,

with

stretched Bugatti was not far in front, and naturally,

at the auction, but now, soaked to

We’ll meet at the auction and then you can fill me in on

news