Chapter 126

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.

Ferguson had no choice but to come back to

to refuse his request

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

Ferguson turned

family was thrown

studio all afternoon, hoping to catch her. He

Hannah was the last to go; when she spotted Leander still

been here the whole time-I didn't

smiled. "We have two exits. She used the

as he sometimes was, realized what was going on.

as he stalked away in

...

today was the Lantern Festival, and he insisted on

tried to talk him out of it, even scolded him, but Stewart wouldn't budge.

Carl and asked him to

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

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