The Killer Queen by Noella Briony

Chapter 84

The moment she dropped that bomb, the whole gallery fell weirdly silent.

This painting was the crown jewel of the gallery. Tons of folks came here just to eyeball this masterpiece, turning the place into a hotspot for Instagram selfies and all that jazz. It even got its 15 minutes of fame on a bunch of TV interviews.

No way this piece was a fake!

Harper couldn’t help but smirk sarcastically. “Listen up, Miss, this work of art’s been vetted by TV crews and whatnot it’s the real thing, so don’t play expert if you ain’t one, okay? No wild guessing.”

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Travis was getting antsy too. “How could this be a fake, Miss? Loads of art buffs have given it the thumbs up – it’s legit!”

Noella just shook her head cool as a cucumber, her eyes fixed on the play of light and shadow in ‘Spring Night‘.

The genuine ‘Spring Night‘ had a few roses added in the top left corner – just a little magic touch she threw in while Master Killian was painting.

Those roses took the whole thing up a notch. Killian loved it so much he hung it in his bedroom. At its first showing, the roses weren’t there, so any copycat wouldn’t even know about them.

This painting in front of her, although a pretty good knockoff, was definitely a dud.

Too many details were dealt with heavy–handed strokes, which didn’t make it the same league work as the original ‘Spring Night‘.

Noella pointed at a corner of ‘Spring Night‘ to everyone and claimed. “The original by Master Killian didn’t start its strokes in this sequence.”

Harper scoffed, “Come on, princess, Killian’s brushwork is one of a kind. Who could possibly fake that?”

Noella turned to Travis, “Bring me some paper and paint.”

“Uh, yeah, sure, right on it,” he said, quickly grabbing the best paints and brushes from the gallery’s stash and setting up an easel for Noella.

Noella grabbed a brush and started mixing colors like a pro, whipping up ‘Spring Night’s palette in no time!

things to

nailing every shade on the fly and sketching out a

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in a blink!

Killian does it. This ‘Spring Night‘ is all wrong with its strokes

said.

Everyone was gobsmacked!

more vivid than the one on display. The

knees knocking. “Just because you can paint doesn’t mean this one’s a phony. We

on him. “You painted this, didn’t you? And that money went straight into

sweating bullets!

she figure

way! She must be

busted, he’d be

could I have

pulled out her phone and video–called Killian, turning the camera to the ‘Spring Night‘ in question before

if the guy was a living legend in the art world. If the gallery’s painting was a fake, he’d be in deep

you sure this is a counterfeit?” he

bedroom, “See? It’s got the roses my hopeless student added. You think I can’t spot a fake? You’ve got

live testimony, everyone in the gallery hit the

plotting his escape, “Travis, you gonna nab him or wait to get nabbed

to it and immediately rushed up to nab

hundred million! Enjoy your life in the slammer!”

gallery! How is my painting any worse than Killian’s? You wouldn’t showcase my stuff, and instead, you made me fix up old paintings. And you still treated my painting

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talking tough, huh? You’ve done

knew he was toast.

quick and hauled him