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

audience was once again astonished to see such a bid, and

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

uttered the word ‘sold’, Tommy raised his placard

auctioneer by surprise, and he spoke in a more excited

when bidder number one raised the bid by that big an amount. Everyone wondered if the painting would spark a bidding war

and wondered why Jeremy

as upset as her. “What in the world

ordered calmly, “Bid higher,

“Right!”

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

the five-million bid from bidder

seven is going even higher! We now have six million from

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

annoyed at the development. Her main issue at

to you, perhaps we can shift the

capital to my personal affairs. I’ll find another way to get

had no choice but

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

buy that painting at several times more than its original value. This merely showed that

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

from the auction house came into their room to serve coffee

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

taken up a job as a receptionist at the auction

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

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 heard Zoey’s screech. He halted his

she was already speaking rudely to the

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

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

her crystal 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 narrowed

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

here?” Jeremy shot

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

in a cold voice,

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