The Day I Kissed An Older Man

Chapter 17

“Boss? Aren’t we going in?” Aaron asked.

Corinne was rooted to the ground as she watched Jeremy get out of the car and walk into Peakrise Auction House. With a frown, she said, “I saw someone I’d rather not see. Let’s wait a while before going in.”

Aaron looked in the direction of Corinne’s gaze. “That seems to be Jeremy from the Holdens. Do you know him?”

Corinne looked disgusted. “Not really.”

…

The auction hall was divided into upper and lower floors. The first floor was for ordinary buyers, while the second floor was for VIP buyers who did not wish to show their identity. They were granted excellent privacy and were identifiable by their room numbers.

Jeremy was in room one, while Corinne was in room seven.

After several unremarkable artifacts were auctioned off, a set of bronze pieces from this auction were carried to the display stand. Once the auctioneer gave a brief lecture on the background and value of the artifacts, bidding commenced at 1.5 million dollars.

“Two million!”

“Three million!”

“Four million!”

…

Eventually, the mysterious bidder from Room One managed to bid for the set of bronze artifacts at a high price of four million, which elicited gasps of awe from the audience.

Inside room seven, Corinne leaned lazily on the sofa and breathed a sigh of relief. Jeremy seemed to have been eyeing the set of bronze artifacts, and judging from the fact that he had already secured it, he would probably leave soon since there was no reason for him to remain there.

“The next piece is a posthumously published painting titled ‘Geese in Late Autumn’ by the famous impressionist painter Nellie Nymphaea. The starting price is seven hundred and fifty thousand!”

“We have a bid of eight hundred thousand from bidder number three!

“Bidder number eleven, nine hundred thousand!

“And now bidder number five, nine hundred and fifty thousand!”

Corinne raised her chin to give Aaron the signal that he could start raising his placard.

million from bidder number

bid, and they began wondering who the powerhouse behind the ‘number

and a half million going

uttered the

surprise, and he spoke in a more

the bid by that big an amount. Everyone wondered if the painting would

frowned and wondered why Jeremy was still

world is Mister Jeremy’s problem? He’s just trying

ordered calmly, “Bid higher,

“Right!”

by buyer number seven. Do we have a

we do! Here comes the

even higher! We now have six million from bidder

a half million! Any

the development. Her main issue at

to you, perhaps we can shift the project

“No, I can’t just divert the company’s capital to my personal affairs. I’ll find another way to get it. We can let Jeremy keep

choice but to heed

a knock of the gavel, and it was soon announced that bidder number one had secured ‘Geese

buy that painting at several times more

Nellie Nymphaea in her spare time. Despite being relatively well-known, she was not a particularly mainstream painter, and her works were not very popular either. Jeremy’s reasons for bidding such a high price for ‘Geese in Late Autumn’ could point to two possibilities: Corinne’s mother was either someone he

house came into their room to serve

Why are you here? How did you even get to sit in this room?” one

person as Zoey, who had apparently taken up a

at Corinne in shock, and before long, she spotted the handsome, well-dressed Aaron in a designer suit sitting to one side. She gritted her teeth

Jeremy had just walked out of the room and was about to leave when he heard Zoey’s screech.

probationary period, but she was already speaking rudely to the VIP buyers! Her actions startled everyone at

several security personnel. He had Zoey dragged out while

guards and yelled out loud, “You’re a b*tch, Corinne! F*ck

that occasion—there was no doubt that someone named Corinne was there. ‘That girl… She’s here? And she was the one bidding in room seven?’

latter, and he was about to close the door when Jeremy’s tall figure appeared right in

there a Corinne here?” Jeremy shot Aaron a

a moment, then nodded with a smile. “Is there anything you’d like to talk to

slightly as he said in a cold voice, “Tell her to

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