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 bidder number

see such a bid, and they began wondering who the powerhouse behind the ‘number seven’

auctioneer began to count, “One and a half million going once! Going twice! Going

uttered the word ‘sold’, Tommy

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

the hall when bidder number one raised the bid by that big an amount. Everyone

frowned and wondered why

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

ordered calmly, “Bid higher,

“Right!”

million by buyer number seven.

the five-million bid from bidder

going even higher! We now have six million from bidder

for seven and a half million! Any further bids from the floor? No? Alright then. Seven and a half million, going once,

development. Her main issue at that juncture

is very important to you, perhaps we can shift the project funds

raised her hand and shook her head. “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 it

had no choice but to heed her

it was soon announced that bidder number one had

see bidder number one spending six million to buy that painting at several times more than its original value.

well-known, she was not a particularly mainstream painter, and her works were not very popular

auction house came into their room to serve coffee and

did you even get to sit in this room?”

Zoey, who had apparently taken up a job

long, she spotted the handsome, well-dressed Aaron in a designer suit sitting to one side. She gritted her

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

was already speaking rudely to the VIP buyers! Her actions startled everyone at the venue

over with several security personnel. He had Zoey dragged out while

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 be long before your

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

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

a Corinne here?” Jeremy

for a moment, then nodded with a smile. “Is there anything you’d

slightly as he said in

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