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

bid, and they began wondering who the powerhouse

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

he struck the gavel and uttered the word

a more excited tone compared

by that big an amount. Everyone wondered if the painting

why

in the world is

calmly, “Bid higher,

“Right!”

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

the

bidder number seven is going even higher! We now have six

that! Bidder number one goes for seven and a half million! Any further bids from the floor? No? Alright then. Seven

the development. Her main issue at that juncture

perhaps we can shift

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

had no choice but to heed her

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

number one spending six million to buy that painting at several times more than its original value. This merely showed that rich people could

were not very popular either. Jeremy’s reasons for bidding such a high price for ‘Geese

auction house came

are you here? How did you even get to sit in this

a job as a receptionist at the auction

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

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

just applied for the job a day ago and had just started her probationary period, but she was already speaking

He had

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! You made me lose my job

crystal clear 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

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

a Corinne here?” Jeremy shot Aaron

taken aback for a moment, then nodded with a smile. “Is there anything you’d like to talk to

said in a cold voice, “Tell her

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