Master of his heart

Chapter 62

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.

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noise level in the room skyrocketed as advisors at the bidder’s tables frantically

of the Louvre, was now up for

was taken aback, and then she

offer outdoing the last, and the atmosphere reached

won their desired lots, bowed out of the bidding war, but Dustin was persistent, raising

this masterpiece as a consolation gift for his mother, given the painting’s evocative

eight rounds of intense bidding, Dustin emerged victorious, claiming the da Vinci

to the adjacent hall for the gala dinner –

of fine wine filled the air and familiar faces mingled in

on Mr. Hartley. She couldn’t afford to return from her first

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waiter to complete the necessary paperwork for his purchase,

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 for a moment, it was

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

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