The Consortium's Heir

Chapter 45

“$100,000.”

There was a brief silence when everyone heard his voice. They couldn’t believe that someone was bold enough to raise the bid by twice the amount of the previous bid.

Everyone instantly turned to look at the person who raised the bid that high. To their utmost shockit was none other than Darius!

Darius stood still with his left hand in his pocket and a glass of wine in his right hand. His posture and nonchalant stare made him look so handsome and attractive that a few girls had red tints on their cheeks.

Pearl, Janet, David, Sarah, Helen, Chad, Anna and other several wealthy figures looked at Darius with different expression written on their faces.

Pearl and Janet looked closely at Darius. They both accepted that Darius was indeed very attractive, but that wasn’t the reason they looked at him. They felt his face to be very familiar.

the second ranked beauty in Kingston University had no idea, but she had indeed met Darius before. It was when Darius had recently gotten

friends who were also beautiful, although they were not as beautiful as her. The main reason why she couldn’t remember Darius was because he looked so different and

before, but she couldn’t recall where. Darius appearance had changed too drastically to be easily linked to

Darius just wanted to spite her and show her how much richer he was which was the reason

also had a similar thought to Sarah. He hated Darius with all his heart therefore anything that Darius did seemed like an eyesore to him. It was incredibly

thoughts, Darius didn’t raise the bid of the item to spite them or throw his weight about. He just sincerely loved the painting and felt that $50,000 was too little of a price for the painting. Besides, the amount he used to buy the painting would be given to charity; therefore the more he spent the better. “$100,000 going once! Twice! And sold!” “The incredible painting “The beauty of Nature’ has been sold to Mr. Darius Reid for a sum of $ 100,000! Thank you very much Mr. Reid!” The

“How is this possible?!”

unable to donate $200 at the last charity gala, so how on earth is he able to afford such a huge

person. However this single feat of acquiring the painting for a $100,000 had proved them wrong and slapped them in the face! Darius smiled but said nothing. He only raised his glass to the announcer as

on display was a sculpture of the Greek goddess Aphrodite. It was carved by a fourteen year old teenager and its starting bid was $100,000, a far cry from the starting bid of the painting This time around Darius refrained from bidding. There were still different items to be auctioned and he didn’t want to come off

lady for Evergreen University, but finally came out on top. When the announcer announced her as the winner of the bid there was a huge smile on her face. She

in, and they sold for $ 130,000 and $190,000 respectively. The fifth item however was something that Darius could not overlook. It