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 bidder

and they began

and a half million going once! Going

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

by surprise, and he spoke in a more excited tone

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

why Jeremy was still

world is Mister Jeremy’s problem? He’s just trying to

calmly,

“Right!”

by buyer number seven. Do we have

the five-million bid

seven is going even higher! We now have

one goes for seven and a half million!

development. Her main issue at that juncture was a lack

very important to you, perhaps

capital to my personal affairs. I’ll find another way to get it. We can let Jeremy

had no choice but to

gavel, and it was soon announced that bidder number one had secured ‘Geese

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

painted under the pseudonym Nellie Nymphaea in her spare time. Despite being relatively well-known, she was not a particularly mainstream painter, and her works were not very popular either. Jeremy’s reasons

house came into

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

Zoey, who had apparently taken up a job as a receptionist at the auction house after being fired

at Corinne in shock, and before long, she spotted the handsome, well-dressed Aaron in a designer suit sitting to one side. She gritted her teeth

walked out of

had just applied for the job a day ago and had just started her probationary period, but she was already speaking rudely to the VIP buyers! Her actions startled

personnel. He had Zoey dragged out while he apologized profusely to the bidder

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! You made me lose my job twice now! It

doubt that someone named Corinne was there. ‘That girl… She’s here? And she was the one bidding in room seven?’ He narrowed his eyes coldly and turned

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

there a Corinne here?” Jeremy shot

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

handsome eyes narrowed slightly as he said in a cold voice, “Tell her

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