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.

half million from bidder number

see such a bid, and

half million going once! Going twice! Going

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

auctioneer by surprise, and he spoke in a more excited tone

gasps resonated through the hall when bidder number one raised the bid by that big an amount. Everyone wondered if the painting would spark a bidding war between bidder number one and bidder number

and wondered why

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

calmly,

“Right!”

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

Here comes the five-million bid from bidder

is going even higher! We now have six million from bidder number

goes for seven and a half million! Any further bids from the

Her main issue at that juncture was a

to you, perhaps we can shift

my personal affairs. I’ll find another way to get it. We can

but to

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

million to buy that painting at several times more than

had 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 reasons for bidding such a high price for ‘Geese in Late Autumn’

receptionists from the auction house came

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

the person as Zoey, who had apparently taken up a job as a receptionist at the

in shock, and before long, she spotted the handsome, well-dressed Aaron in a designer suit sitting to one side. She gritted her teeth in envy and yelled, “Bravo, Corinne! You made me lose my job, while you’re

high-pitched voice was so frantic and loud that 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

period, but she was already speaking rudely to the VIP

security personnel. He had Zoey

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

‘That girl… She’s here? And she was the one bidding in room seven?’ He narrowed his eyes coldly and

the latter, and he was about to close the door when

Corinne here?” Jeremy

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

in a cold voice, “Tell her

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