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.

and a half million from

once again astonished to see such a bid, and

and a half million

before he struck the gavel and uttered the word ‘sold’, Tommy raised his placard from

a

round of shocked gasps resonated 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

frowned and wondered why Jeremy was still

upset as her. “What in the world

ordered calmly, “Bid higher,

“Right!”

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

Here comes the five-million bid

is going even higher! We now have six million from bidder number

number one goes for seven and a half million! Any

development. Her main issue at that juncture was

very important to you, perhaps we can shift the project funds to it

can’t just divert the company’s capital to my personal affairs. I’ll find another way to

no choice but to heed her

sealed 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

and her works were not very popular either. Jeremy’s reasons for

auction house came into

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

taken up a job as a receptionist

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

just walked out of the room and was about to leave when he heard

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

He had Zoey dragged out while he apologized profusely to the bidder in room

out loud, “You’re a b*tch, Corinne! F*ck you! You made me lose my job twice now! It won’t be long

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

an apology from the latter, and he was about to close the door when Jeremy’s tall figure appeared right in front of

a Corinne here?” Jeremy

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

slightly as he said in a cold

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