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.

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

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

taken aback, and then she heard Dustin placing

was frenzied, each offer outdoing the last, and the atmosphere reached a fever pitch with the

having won their desired lots, bowed out of the bidding war, but Dustin was persistent, raising his bid four times, his

bidding on this masterpiece as a consolation gift for his

eight rounds of intense bidding, Dustin emerged victorious, claiming

to the adjacent hall for the gala dinner – the true highlight of the

hall, where the aroma of fine wine filled the air and familiar faces mingled

gaze landed on Mr. Hartley. She couldn’t afford to return

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backstage by a waiter to complete the necessary paperwork for

a conversation with the president of the Hartley Group. What she didn’t expect was that a young guy not far away was broadcasting live on their phone. Her face

the dinner, was likely attending such a posh event for the first and only time, hence his

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