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.

Ferguson had no choice but to

Briony told Hannah to refuse his request

of professional ethics. Even when Mr. Ferguson offered double their original fee,

Mr. Ferguson turned

was thrown

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

to go; when she spotted Leander still

here the whole time-I didn't

have two exits. She used

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

darkened as he stalked away

...

the hospital, but today was the Lantern Festival, and he

to talk him out of it, even scolded him, but Stewart wouldn't budge. In the end, Cedric

him to

front. Stewart, dressed head-to-toe in black, climbed