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

was once again astonished to see such a bid, and they began wondering who the powerhouse

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

the gavel and uttered the word

in a more excited tone compared to

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

wondered why

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

ordered calmly,

“Right!”

by buyer number

comes the five-million bid

We now

half million! Any further bids from the

at the development. Her main issue at that

“Since this painting is very important to you, perhaps we can shift the project funds to it

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

choice but to heed her

soon announced that bidder number one had secured ‘Geese

six million to buy that painting at several times more than its original value. This merely

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

auction house came

did you even get to sit

up a job as a receptionist

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 living the good life with a

hall could hear it. Over at room one, Jeremy had just walked out of the room and was about to

day ago and had just started her probationary period, but she was already speaking rudely to the VIP buyers! Her actions startled everyone at the

several security personnel. He had Zoey dragged out while he apologized profusely to the bidder in room

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

doubt that someone named Corinne was there. ‘That girl… She’s here? And she was the one bidding in room seven?’ He narrowed

away after receiving an apology from the latter, and he was about to close the door when Jeremy’s tall figure appeared right

a Corinne here?” Jeremy shot

then nodded with a

as he said in a

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