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 from bidder number

bid, and they began wondering who the powerhouse

count, “One and a half million going

and uttered the word ‘sold’, Tommy raised

in a more excited

bid by that big an

and wondered why

“What in the world is Mister Jeremy’s problem? He’s just trying to flaunt

ordered calmly,

“Right!”

have a bid of four million by buyer number

do! Here comes the five-million

bidder number seven is going even higher! We now have six

Bidder number one goes for seven and a half

at the development. Her main issue at

perhaps

“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 for

but to heed

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

at several times more than its

in thought. Her mother 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

auction house

Why are you here? How did you even get to sit in

a job as a receptionist at the auction house after being fired by Alpha

designer suit sitting to one side. She gritted her teeth in envy and yelled, “Bravo, Corinne! You made me lose my

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

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

the auction house rushed over with several security personnel. He had Zoey dragged out while he apologized profusely to

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

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

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

Jeremy shot Aaron a hostile

a smile. “Is there anything you’d like to talk to

in a cold

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