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 from bidder number

see such a bid, and they began wondering who the powerhouse behind the ‘number seven’ placard

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

struck the gavel and uttered the word ‘sold’, Tommy raised

in a more excited tone compared to before. “Three million from bidder

bid by that big an amount. Everyone wondered if the painting would spark a bidding war

and wondered why

as upset as her. “What in the world is Mister Jeremy’s problem? He’s

calmly, “Bid higher,

“Right!”

a bid of four million by buyer number seven.

the five-million

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

a half million! Any further bids from the floor? No? Alright then. Seven

development. Her main issue at that juncture was a lack

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

divert the company’s capital to my personal affairs. I’ll find another

had no choice but

that bidder number one had secured ‘Geese in Late Autumn’ with a final

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

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 mother was either someone

auction house came into their room to serve coffee and

are you here? How did you even get to sit

up and recognized the person as Zoey, who had apparently taken up a job as a receptionist

a designer suit sitting to one side. She gritted her teeth in

the entire auction hall could hear it. Over at room one, Jeremy had just walked out of the room and was about

she was already speaking rudely to the VIP buyers! Her actions startled everyone at

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

out loud, “You’re a b*tch, Corinne! F*ck you! You made me lose my job twice now! It won’t be long before your man gets tired of f*cking your sick *ss and

doubt that someone named Corinne was there. ‘That girl… She’s here? And she was

and

Corinne here?” Jeremy shot Aaron a hostile

taken aback for a moment, then nodded with a smile.

eyes narrowed slightly as he said in a

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