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.
sucked in a deep breath and announced the new bid with a shaky voice, resulting in another round of
to add a million to the bid just like that? They wondered
suite might be Toby, and he was very unhappy about the fact that Toby didn’t allow them into his private suite. After
Charles called a bid
shouted as well,
bidding all this while, joined
is crazy. All of you have lost your
even want to buy the ring, but just want to pull a prank on Tina?” he asked with a smirk as he swayed the paddle
of influential if he can
about that because we have already offended him a long time ago. The young master of this auction is a friend of mine that I met in university, and I already checked with him who’s the
Surprised, Sonia asked, “Toby?”
answered
and felt complicated. So, the one who started the bidding war with Tina is Toby, but why does he want to buy this ring? she wondered. What is he going to do with my wedding band? Give
neither did she want to ponder over it. It
Toby bid again from the
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
the end, the intimidated Tina could only watch as the mysterious person on the
“The guy upstairs bought a
didn’t take anything with her except for this ring, and now it was returned to him in such a manner. From now on, Sonia will have nothing that has any connection to me anymore, he thought as he closed his palm around the ring tightly, and
for the banquet hall upstairs. After everyone left, Toby got up from the couch and hobbled out of the
eyes widened in disbelief, Tina gasped, “Toby… so it’s true that
admitted graciously
that the person in the first private suite was him, so there was no need
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