Chapter 62

Brielle was lost in a daze, barely registering the events unfolding around her, including the fact that Max had secured the Eternal Whispers painting for a cool four hundred million, something she belatedly realized.

Eternal Whispers was the showstopper of the evening, but the auction organizers had one more trick up their sleeve – a mysterious item that wasn’t listed in the catalog and was only to be revealed live at the event.

This secrecy was the reason there was such a buzz of consultants at the bidder’s tables, all eager to catch a glimpse of the hidden gem, which could be anything from a piece of royal regalia that might have graced the brow of an ancient monarch to a lost

masterpiece by a revered artist.

The trio of auctioneers, normally loquacious, held their tongues for a moment, their voices trembling with excitement.

It all seemed irrelevant to Brielle until the crowd erupted into a clamor, snapping her out of her reverie. She looked up just in time to see the final lot revealed – none other than Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.

noise level in the room skyrocketed as advisors at the bidder’s tables frantically relayed the developments to their

painting, which most believed belonged in the hallowed halls of the Louvre, was now up for grabs

taken aback, and then she heard Dustin

and the atmosphere reached a fever

out of the bidding war, but Dustin was persistent, raising his bid

was bidding on this masterpiece as a

claiming the da Vinci for a staggering nine hundred

waiters began directing the assembly to the adjacent hall for

the aroma of fine

Hartley. She couldn’t afford to return from her

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nothing to show for

a waiter to complete the necessary

What she didn’t expect was that a young guy not far away was broadcasting live on their phone. Her face appeared on the live broadcast screen, and although it only flashed

was likely attending such a posh event for the first and only

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