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.
new bid with a shaky
just like that? They wondered in amazement and
began to suspect that the one in the first private suite might be Toby, and he was very unhappy about the fact that
million!” Charles called a bid
shouted as well,
bidding all this while, joined
Sonia uttered, “This is crazy. All of you have lost
but just want to pull a prank on Tina?” he asked with a smirk as he swayed the paddle
show that he must be kind of influential if he can afford a private suite in an auction. He’s definitely not someone we can offend. If he ends up as the one
that I met in university, and I already checked with him who’s the person in the first suite beforehand.
Surprised, Sonia asked, “Toby?”
answered with a
does he want to buy this ring? she wondered. What is he
neither did she want to ponder over it. It was a ring she
again from the
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
mysterious person on the second
upstairs bought a ring for five
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
everyone left, Toby got up from the couch and hobbled out of the private suite with the crutch. The moment he stepped out,
widened in disbelief, Tina gasped, “Toby… so it’s true
he admitted graciously with
out that the person in the first private suite was him, so there was no need
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