The Day I Kissed An Older Man

Chapter 18

Corinne tilted her head as she looked at Aaron, who immediately understood her hint due to years of tacit understanding with her.

After clearing his throat, he raised his hand to adjust the Bluetooth earpiece he wore out of habit on his left ear, and walked past Jeremy and Corinne in as calm a manner as possible.

He even made a point to lower his voice a little and pretend as if he was speaking to someone over the phone.

“Sorry, Boss. Things got a little awkward earlier. That Holden guy overheard me when I was ranting about him earlier. Well, yeah! He’s the one who outbid us on your favorite painting! Sure. we’ll just forget about it and let him have it! ‘Geese in Late Autumn’ isn’t Nellie Nymphaea’s only painting. There are plenty of other ones we can get in the future!”

Aaron was already quite far away when he ended his sentence.

Corinne stared wide-eyed at Jeremy and cocked her eyebrow innocently. “I think he’s angry at you, mister.”

Jeremy retracted his gaze and turned to Corinne. He began to question her, “Don’t the two of you know each other?”

Corinne shook her head. “I don’t know him at all! Do you? Why was he angry at you again?”

“You haven’t answered me yet. What are you doing

was fired from Alpha Enterprises, thanks to you? I heard that they’re recruiting auctioneers here, so I submitted my resume and came here for

still rather doubtful. “Did you get

head, shrugged her shoulders, and spread her palms. “No. They were looking for someone with

her petite appearance. If she were allowed to stand on the auction

up and asked, “And what

here?”

set of bronze artifacts, so I came over

you, mister. You really are a good

does it sound like

of a sudden, his

answered the call, frowned slightly, and hung up with a grunt. He then stared intently at Corinne.” Where

sending in resumes

patted her head gently as he leaned over and spoke in a hoarse, irrefutable tone, Come with me. I’ll give you

Before she could even process what Jeremy said, he had

The last time she was there was when Jeremy forced her to get

glanced at the decorations around her, which consisted of flowers, a

pale from fright. “What are you planning this time,

me that much? Do you want another wedding?” Corinne immediately rolled her eyes and was about to turn