Slumdog Billionaire Husband novel Chapter 46

Chapter 46 Disclose the Scam

Gerald was slightly intrigued.

Gerald knew about the shop across the street. This shop was called Treasure Store!

It was built two years ago. When it was built, Gerald also worked there. Afterward, he also moved things for that store owner a few times.

If Elliot was a profiteer, then the owner of the Treasure Store was a shameless asshole.

Back then, when he worked for the Treasure Store, one of their workmates was cheated. His workmate accidentally broke a porcelain object, which was clearly a replica, but that workmate had been extorted of 5,000 dollars.

At that time, Gerald and the others didn’t dare to retort despite their anger. Later, they did not dare to work for this

shop.

Now, according to Elliot, the people of the Treasure Store often swindled tourists.

“What happened?” Audrey asked in surprise,

“In our business, there’s no return of goods. This means that even if you have bought fake goods, as long as you’ve paid, then you cannot return the goods,” Elliot said, “But the people of the Treasure Store are different. They will make some mistakes and pretend that the customers have damaged things. Then they’ll say that the things are very expensive and force the customers to compensate.”

Audrey frowned and said, “How can they do that?”

“This industry is very complicated,” Elliot shook his head and said, “And because of their appearance, our business has been somewhat affected. Due to them, All Antiques‘ reputation has been worse.”

Audrey frowned and said, “Then I must go and take a look!”

Elliot frowned but did not speak!

As the richest man in Los Angeles, Bradley had a high status. If Audrey could give the Treasure Store a warning, it

would be a good thing.

Gerald glanced at Elliot and smiled. He knew that Elliot intended to use Audrey.

He did not make it clear and followed behind Audrey, squeezing into the crowd.

At the door of the Treasure Store, a moustache middle–aged man was holding a girl’s arm and saying with a sneer, “Lady, this thing is some Ancient Master Artist’s authentic work. And you just broke it.”

He was holding a painting that had been broken into two pieces in one hand and grabbing a short–haired girl with the

other hand.

Beside the girl, there was a woman. Both the girl and the woman were quite beautiful. The middle–aged woman was protective of the girl and said, “Don’t try to sling mud at us. We heard that there was an authentic work of that Ancient Master Artist in this store, so we came here to take a look. However, the painting suddenly fell from the wall and broke into two pieces. This has nothing to do with us at all.”

“This painting is the top treasure of our store. It was fine being hung on the wall for a long time. Yet, it just broke into two halves after you took a look at it. How can your explanation make sense?” the mustache man said with a sneer.

Gerald frowned. He also knew this man. He was Donovan Collen, the owner of Treasure Store, who had cheated his

friend before. People all called him Exploiter Donovan!

‘Hey, lady, now that the painting is broken, you should just compensate for it. After all, you can afford it.”

“Exactly. Since you broke the painting, of course, you should compensate for it!”

Several people around began to kick up a fuss.

Gerald was aware that these people were definitely hired by Donovan.

As they heard these words, the expressions of the girl and the woman both changed a bit.

The woman gritted her teeth and seemed to plan to compensate. She took a glance at Donovan and said, “How much

is it?”

“Not much, 2.4 million dollars,” Donovan said.

In the crowd, a gasp suddenly sounded.

The girl and the woman stared at Donovan. At this time, the woman said, “Okay, I’ll pay you 2.4 million dollars. You’d

better take it well.”

Obviously, the woman and the girl were not short of money, nor were they ordinary people.

Donovan probably had figured that, so he dared to set up such a trap.

He didn’t care about the threatening implication of the woman. In All Antiques of Los Angeles, outsiders couldn’t be a

threat to him.

At this time, Audrey could not stand this anymore. She was about to rush out. Gerald hurriedly stopped her. Audrey

frowned and said, “They are clearly scamming the woman and the girl. Are you gonna stand by and do nothing? Hazel