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.

and a half million from

bid, and they began wondering who the

half million going once! Going

the word ‘sold’, Tommy

spoke in a more excited tone

an amount. Everyone wondered if the

and wondered why Jeremy

her. “What in the world is Mister Jeremy’s problem? He’s just trying

calmly, “Bid

“Right!”

buyer number seven. Do we have

the five-million bid from bidder

going even higher! We

than that! Bidder number one goes for seven and a half million! Any further bids from the floor? No? Alright then. Seven and

development. Her main issue

perhaps we can shift the

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

no choice but

with a knock of the gavel, and it was soon announced that bidder number one had secured ‘Geese in Late Autumn’ with

several times more

only painted 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

beautiful receptionists from the auction house came into their room to

How did you even get to sit in this room?” one of

taken up a job as a

side. She gritted her teeth in envy and

the entire 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 at once and glanced

her probationary period, but she was already speaking rudely to

He had Zoey dragged out while

that day, so she let all hell loose when she was taken away by the security 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

clear on 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?’ He

the auction house manager away after receiving an apology from the latter, and he was about to close the door when Jeremy’s tall

there a Corinne here?” Jeremy

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

narrowed slightly as he said in a cold

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