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 from bidder
to see such a bid, and they
to count, “One and a half million going once!
the word
surprise, and he spoke in a more
big an amount. Everyone wondered if the painting would spark a bidding war between bidder
frowned and wondered why
her. “What in the world is Mister Jeremy’s problem? He’s just
ordered calmly, “Bid higher,
“Right!”
a bid of four million by buyer number
we do! Here comes the five-million bid
even higher! We now have six million from bidder
a half million! Any further bids from the floor? No?
annoyed at the development. Her main issue at that juncture was a lack of
this painting is very important to you, perhaps we can shift the project
just divert the company’s capital to my personal affairs. I’ll find another way to
choice but to heed her
knock of the gavel, and it was soon announced that bidder number one had secured ‘Geese in
to buy that painting at several times more than its original value.
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
beautiful receptionists from the auction house came into their room to
get to sit
as Zoey, who had apparently taken up a job as a receptionist at
one side. She gritted her teeth in envy and yelled, “Bravo, Corinne! You made
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 footsteps
just applied for the job a day ago and had just started her probationary period, but she was already speaking rudely to
security personnel. He had
out loud, “You’re a b*tch, Corinne! F*ck you! You made me lose my job twice now! It
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 his
auction house manager away after receiving an apology from the latter, and he was about to close the door when Jeremy’s tall figure appeared right in
here?” Jeremy shot Aaron a hostile
nodded with a smile. “Is there
eyes narrowed slightly as he said in a cold voice, “Tell her to come out,
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