“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.

the center of attention again.

carried on after the two of them

so much money to bid for an item, while Charlotte easily grabbed the attention of

How unfair was that!

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

placed a bid of thirteen million…

“Thirty million!”

bidding paddle and instantly became

increments. However, Luna had straight away increased the bid by

because the person bidding against her was Helena, a socialite from the Brown family. Everyone knew that Helena

to offend Zachary, she would never allow herself

Sterling has placed a bid of thirty million. Thirty million going once, thirty million going twice, thirty million so…

smile on her face, thinking that she was finally going to win the

million!” Helena

through Luna’s veins when she heard that

woman immediately and said, “Mr. Sterling has given orders that the highest we can go is fifty million. If it’s anything above

asked, feeling exasperated. “It’s not as if

money,” Owen 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

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