Regretting the Wife He Threw Away

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.

no choice but

to refuse his request

with anyone who had no sense of professional ethics. Even when Mr. Ferguson offered double their

turned around and

Hudson family was thrown

Leander Hudson-waited outside the studio all afternoon, hoping to catch her. He stayed until nightfall, but Briony

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

frowned. "I've been here the whole time-I

exits. She

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

face darkened as he stalked away in

...

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

even scolded him, but

and asked him to bring Irwin

Carl pulled up out front. Stewart, dressed head-to-toe in black, climbed