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.

Kingston University had no idea, but she had indeed met Darius before. It was when Darius had recently gotten his wealth and purchased

as her. The main reason

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

her how much richer he was which was the reason he raised the bid by

heart therefore anything that

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

“How is this possible?!”

to donate $200 at the last charity gala, so how on earth is he

Not everyone was outside when Darius arrived in a very fancy sports car, so they still had the belief that he wasn’t a rich 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

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 as proud and arrogant. He decided that he would bid only on items that he liked, and he would bid a substantial amount of money to acquire the

had gotten into a bidding war with a lady for Evergreen University, but finally came out on top. When the announcer announced her as the

130,000 and $190,000 respectively. The fifth item however was something that Darius could