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.

million

astonished to see such a bid, and they began wondering who the powerhouse behind

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

the word ‘sold’, Tommy raised his

by surprise, and he spoke in a more

raised the bid by that big an amount. Everyone wondered if the

frowned and wondered why

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

ordered calmly,

“Right!”

of four million by buyer number seven. Do we have

we do! Here comes the five-million bid

even higher! We

seven and a half million! Any further bids from the floor? No? Alright then.

issue at that

painting is very important to you, perhaps we

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

choice but

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

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

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 personally or someone he had connections

receptionists from the auction house came

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

as Zoey, who had apparently taken up a job as a receptionist

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,

just walked out of the

probationary period, but she was already speaking rudely to the VIP buyers!

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

sack 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 be long before your man gets tired of f*cking your sick *ss

here? And she was the one bidding in room

and he was about to close the door when Jeremy’s tall figure appeared

here?” Jeremy shot

nodded with a smile. “Is there anything

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

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