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.

a half million

again astonished to see such a bid, and they began

half

second before he struck the gavel and uttered the word ‘sold’, Tommy raised his placard from room

spoke in a more excited

by that big an amount. Everyone wondered if the painting would spark a bidding war between bidder number one and

wondered why

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

ordered calmly, “Bid

“Right!”

have a bid of four million by buyer number seven. Do we have

do! Here comes the

bidder number seven is going even higher! We

higher than that! Bidder number one goes for seven and a half million! Any further bids from

main issue at that juncture was a lack of

you, perhaps we can

the company’s capital to my personal affairs. I’ll find another way to get it. We can

but to heed her

that bidder number one had secured ‘Geese in

to buy that painting at several times more than its original value. This merely showed that rich people

under the pseudonym 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 knew

there.” Two beautiful receptionists from the auction house came into their

How did you even get to

a job as

Aaron in a designer suit sitting to one side. She gritted her

auction hall could hear it. Over at room one, Jeremy had just walked out of the room and was about to leave when he heard Zoey’s screech. He halted his footsteps

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

manager of the auction house rushed over with several security personnel. He had Zoey dragged out while

guards and yelled out loud, “You’re a b*tch, Corinne! F*ck you! You made me lose my job twice now! It won’t be long before

was there. ‘That girl… She’s here? And she was the one bidding in room seven?’ He narrowed his eyes coldly and turned around to walk toward

receiving an apology from the latter, and he was about to close the door

there a Corinne here?” Jeremy shot Aaron

moment, then nodded with a smile. “Is there

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

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