Even Tina had figured out that the person who called the bid to a million earlier was Charles, and she guessed that he must be planning to buy it for Sonia. Hmph, she snorted silently. Not in your wildest dreams! Raising her paddle again, she shouted, “1.2 million!”
Next to her, the edge of Titus’ eyes twitched and he hurriedly tried to stop her, saying, “That’s enough, Tina. Stop increasing the bid because this ring isn’t worth that money at all.”
“I don’t care,” she snapped through gritted teeth, her eyes turning red. “I can’t let Sonia get what she wants!”
Frowning, Titus was about to say something when another man shouted, “1.5 million!”
This voice… Sonia thought when she heard the voice, and her face lit up. “That’s Carl, Charles. It’s Carl!”
“I know it’s that rascal,” Charles answered with a nod and raised his paddle. “1.7 million.”
I swear there’s no one I hate more than Charles and that guy who called 1.5 million! Tina thought furiously. I must be cursed to run into them today! Gripping her paddle tightly, she made up her mind determinedly and added three hundred thousand to the bid. “Two million!”
An uproar broke out in the crowd, and Toby knitted his brows in his private suite on the second floor, thinking, What’s up with Tina? Why does she want the ring so badly? “Three million!” he said, pressing down the button.
in a deep breath and announced the new bid with a shaky
to the bid just like that? They wondered in amazement and turned their heads
and he was very unhappy about the fact that Toby didn’t allow them
million!” Charles called a bid
shouted as well, “Four
wasn’t bidding
uttered, “This is crazy. All of
tell that we don’t even want to buy the ring, but just want to pull a prank on Tina?” he asked with a smirk
influential if he can afford a private suite in an auction. He’s definitely
is a friend of mine that I met in university, and I already checked with him who’s
Surprised, Sonia asked, “Toby?”
answered with a
Tina is Toby, but why does he want to buy this ring? she wondered. What is he going to do with my wedding
ex-wife’s ring to his current fiancée, so she reckoned he must have other motives. However, she couldn’t figure it out, and neither did she want to ponder over it. It was a ring she didn’t want since a long time ago anyway, so
bid again from the
down firmly and looked at her with a somber expression. “I’ll break your legs if you dare to raise the bid again.” She’s the only one silly enough to waste millions on a ring which belonged to someone else, he thought angrily. This is too much even if she’s jealous of Sonia and doesn’t wish for Sonia
Tina could only watch as the mysterious person on
a ring for five million! Is he a fool
velvet pouch with an unreadable look in his eyes. When Sonia left the Fullers, she didn’t take anything with her except for this ring, and now it was
left, Toby got up from the couch and hobbled out of the private suite with the
eyes widened in disbelief, Tina gasped, “Toby… so it’s true that you won the bid for
he admitted
out that the person in the first private suite was him, so there was no need for
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