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 number
and they began
began to count, “One and a half
the gavel and uttered the word
the auctioneer by surprise, and he spoke in a more
hall when bidder number one raised the bid by that big an amount. Everyone wondered if the
wondered why Jeremy
as upset as her. “What in the world is Mister
calmly,
“Right!”
by buyer number seven. Do we have a
do! Here comes the five-million bid
bidder number seven is going even higher! We
Bidder number one goes for seven and a half million! Any further bids from the floor? No?
development. Her main issue at that juncture was
to you, perhaps we can shift the project funds to it for
I can’t just divert the company’s capital to my personal affairs. I’ll find another way to get it. We
no choice but to heed
and it was soon announced that bidder number one had secured ‘Geese in Late Autumn’
one spending six million to buy that painting at several times more than its original
mainstream painter, and her works were not very popular
receptionists from the auction house came into their
you here? How did you even get to sit in this room?” one of the female receptionists suddenly
Zoey, who had apparently taken up a job as a receptionist
side. She gritted her teeth in envy
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
her probationary period, but she was already speaking rudely to the VIP buyers! Her actions startled everyone at the venue and left an
had Zoey dragged out while he apologized profusely to the bidder
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!
was no doubt that someone named Corinne was there. ‘That girl… She’s here? And she was the one bidding in room
the auction house manager away after receiving an apology from the latter, and he was about to close the door when
Corinne here?” Jeremy shot Aaron
was taken aback for a moment, then nodded with a smile. “Is there anything you’d like to
slightly as he said in a cold
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