Rian was nearing the first lawyer seated, and, with a nudge of her shoulder, her suit jacket began to fall away from her left shoulder, exposing her bare skin.

Oh my g–… is she going to seduce these guys?! Harley thought, looking on, as hypnotized by what Rian was doing as everyone else was.

“Phryne had been accused of blasphemy, which was a capital offense then, and despite the best efforts of one of Ancient Greece’s best orators, Hyperides, the jury was unconvinced that she be spared the ultimate penalty. The jury knew she was the inspiration of Aphrodite, the pinnacle of beauty in the Greek pantheon of goddesses, but this didn’t matter…”

Rian shrugged her other shoulder, and so her jacket hang loosely on her back now. She was slowly peeling off the jacket from her arms as she talked, and Harley could see all the men had zereoed in on her nude-colored, sleeveless, thin, silk blouse, that skimmed over her breasts sensually. Only the right jacket sleeve remained to be removed.

“And so Phryne did what she had to do …” Rian tugged on the right jacket sleeve.

She positioned herself directly behind the chair of the lead lawyer, who had completely turned around and was facing her, as were all the others.

“She faced away from the jury, tore her dress, let her sleeves fall out, and then turned around and exposed her fabled breasts to the jury. And perhaps pled with them.”

Rian swung the suit jacket she’d disrobed over her shoulder, holding it over her back with a finger, and sauntered away, swaying her hips from side to side. She walked casually around the conference table, noting all the men had dropped their mouths. She let the story sink in.

“Needless to say she was acquitted.”

She got to her seat, slipped her jacket back on, and leaned her forearms over the back of the chair.

“Gentlemen, and lady, we are witnessing an unprecedented rise in the popularity of antiquities in the art market. There is no doubt that objects such as that of this Phryne that your buyer is seeking to get at an absurd price will be highly sought after for many years to come. The statuette of her has a provenance that is unquestioned, its subject is unmatched in allure, and its importance to any true art lover’s collection will never be an issue. It is a stunning, well-preserved, fully authenticated statuette. The museum well-knows that another 8 cm-high statuette, a 5000 year old Mesopotamian stone rendition of a lion-headed figure, was sold for well over fifty-seven million dollars at auction several years ago. We find it frankly insulting that you are coming today with this kind of offer for this unique, and highly desirable, statuette. It tells us that you are, by no means, a serious collector who will do justice to this priceless object.”