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.

half million

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

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

uttered the word ‘sold’,

surprise, and he spoke in a more

the hall when bidder number one raised the bid by that big an amount. Everyone wondered if

why Jeremy was still

world is Mister

ordered calmly, “Bid

“Right!”

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

we do! Here comes the five-million bid

higher! We now have six million from bidder

number one goes for seven and a half million! Any further bids from

the development. Her main issue at that juncture

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

her head. “No, I can’t just divert the company’s capital to my personal

but to

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

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

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 bidding such a high price for ‘Geese in Late Autumn’ could point to two possibilities: Corinne’s

auction house came into their room

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

had apparently taken up a job as a receptionist at the auction house after being fired by Alpha

she spotted the handsome, well-dressed 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

was so frantic and 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 footsteps at

but she was already speaking rudely to the VIP buyers! Her actions startled everyone at the venue and left

security personnel. He had Zoey dragged out

taken away by the security guards and yelled out loud, “You’re a

‘That girl… She’s here? And she was the one bidding in room seven?’

away after receiving an apology from the latter, and he was

there a Corinne here?” Jeremy shot

for a moment, then nodded with a smile. “Is

he said in

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