“It’s exactly because the night has been so eventful that I should treat myself to a present for having a hard day,” Luna disagreed. “It’s not every day Hector is so generous. Since he’s allowing me to bid for anything I want, I should take the chance to showcase myself in front of everyone. Otherwise, those rich ladies will always look down on me at socialites’ parties!”

After hearing her daughter’s perspective, Amanda stopped insisting as well…

She could understand the reasons for Luna feeling that way. Even though the Sterlings enjoyed a high status, her daughter was never popular among the socialites’ circle. Whenever she attended one of their gatherings, she would always go home feeling hurt and in tears…

It might actually be a good opportunity for the woman to be seen. That way, those people would stop looking down on her in the future.

“The bidding starts now. The starting bid would be nine million with each bid increment being five hundred thousand!” the emcee announced.

The guests started raising their bidding paddles when they were certain that Zachary was not interested in the item.

Luna was one of them. In order to flaunt the Sterlings’ generosity, the woman bid in an increment of one million instead and managed to catch the attention of the rest of the guests very quickly.

She was feeling secretly delighted. The time had finally come for her to make a name for herself.

Charlotte was in no mood to carry on watching the auction and was about to try requesting Zachary again to leave…

However, before she could speak, he had already stood up and offered his hand to her. “Let’s go out for a walk.”

 

“Sure.” She placed her hand on his palm and allowed him to lead her towards the exit of the hall.

like that, they had become the center of attention again.

only carried on after the two of them

extremely upset. She had to spend so much money to bid for an item, while Charlotte easily grabbed the

How unfair was that!

that b*tch ruin your good spirits,” her mother reminded softly. “Let’s leave after you win the

have placed a bid of thirteen

“Thirty million!”

paddle and instantly became the focus of attention once

auction would usually be in slight increments. However, Luna had straight away increased the bid by more than two-fold, which was very

person bidding against her was Helena, a socialite from the Brown family. Everyone knew that Helena had fervently pursued Hector once upon

she would never allow herself to lose

thirty million. Thirty million going once, thirty million going twice, thirty

had a conceited smile on her face, thinking that

Helena

through Luna’s veins when she

highest we can go is fifty million. If it’s anything above that, we

not as if we

lowered his voice as he explained. “It’s mainly because Mr. Sterling had considered that if anyone raises the bid to fifty million and above, that would

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