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.

—

as advisors at the

the hallowed halls of the Louvre, was now up

and then she heard Dustin

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

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

long-lost sister, wondering if he was bidding on this masterpiece as a

victorious, claiming the da Vinci

began directing the assembly to the adjacent

into the banquet hall, where the aroma of

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

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to

waiter to complete the necessary paperwork for

no acquaintances around Brielle, so she stood in an inconspicuous spot, thinking about how to start 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 appeared on the live broadcast screen, and

such a posh event for the first and only time,

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