Chapter 119

The next day, Thomas Dunn himself came to pick Nathan up. He went along with him to meet Harvey Babcock and to discuss the amount of compensation.

But before Nathan and Thomas reached the auction house, they received a call from Colin.

Colin reported, “Sir, the experts left out some details last night. Even though the porcelain shard itself is authentic, they also detected signs of polishing.”

“What does that mean?” frowned Nathan.

“It means that the porcelain vase was already broken even before excavation, and not smashed recently,” explained Colin.

“So what you’re saying is, someone found a piece of broken porcelain, polished its edges, then mixed it in with other fake shards to con my father-in-law?”

“Yes, sir. It appears that Mr. Smith is the target of a scam,” confirmed Colin.

Nathan narrowed his eyes, “Alright. I understand.”

Nathan hung up the call and uttered coldly, “Bloody low lives! How dare they try to con my father-in-law?”

Babcock’s background. People call him the T-Rex, and he also has the backing

Peters, whom we took care of last time was a follower of the Zabinskis and

be related to

it that the Zabinski family is behind most of the shady business

house, fifty bodyguards in spiffy suits were standing

their stances firm indicating that they were all

of the underground

was a powerful man who had dealings in both legal and illegal matters and thrived in the grey

of the Zabinski family, people from both

a cigar lazily as he watched his men bringing in Nathan and

his eyes, “I assume you’ve validated the authenticity of the

looked like he was the one running the show with Thomas stood

we have. It is indeed an

“So you’re here to

Nathan nodded, “Correct.”

at Nathan. “You’re prepared to pay

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