You'll Fall For Me, Today or tomorrow

From far away, Luke beamed at Clarissa. There was a lot of courage behind that smile.

Clarissa had barely reacted when someone else offered a higher bid, “Eight hundred thousand.”

The bidder was none other than Joshua.

Clarissa’s companion got smug again. He lifted his chin and looked at Luke, deliberately provoking him.

Oh, honey. I can’t beat Rissa’s husband, but I can surely beat a player like you. Don’t you want a show? I’ll give you one!

Yaala put on a mysterious grin and cast a curious one at Clarissa, who rubbed her forehead in exasperation.

It was then that someone else offered an even higher bid.

“One million.”

It was Ryler.

He wanted to stir the pot.

Clarissa’s eyelid began to twitch as Luke went on to increase the bid.

“One point five!”

“One point eight!” Joshua called out.

“Two million!” Ryler went a step further.

The scene might be incomprehensible to many, but some members of the audience were beginning to get what was really going on. A few seemed to have spotted Clarissa, and they vaguely recalled her as someone’s fiancée some time ago. Moreover, she was a beauty!

The host kept going, “Two million! Pretty ladies do get special treatment, it seems! Does anyone else want to raise the bid?”

Did he say “pretty lady”?

That seemed to be the case. Other than Yaala, the award-winning actress, there really was another beautiful woman in the hall.

Is that Clarissa?

Some people were surprised to meet the real deal. They never really pictured how she looked like. A few of them even started taking pictures of her.

Two point one, two point two…

More and more people joined the bidding.

Eventually, Luke and Joshua were not the only ones competing for the manuscript. Clarissa simply could not understand what was going on. Initially, she thought that a hundred thousand for a manuscript might already be stretching it a little too much, so she definitely did not expect the bidding price to go up to five million.

Of course, unbeknownst to her, the tycoons were rolling in money, so to speak. Most importantly, they would do anything to please a pretty lady.

The bidding gradually became an intense bidding session. The host liked where this was going. He thought of inviting Clarissa to come onto the stage. Her presence would surely encourage the men to bid more. As the host, it was his job to get these people to loosen up their pockets.

“Hold on, ladies and gentlemen. Since everyone has been so generous today, why don’t we invite Ms. Quigley to come up here and say a few words? We can resume the bidding after that.”

“Sure…”

applause, Clarissa nervously

to go up there because backing out was

she got onto the stage under

in the audience got increasingly

that drove the men crazy. They had seen their fair share of beautiful women over the years, especially women from the entertainment industry, so they quickly got tired of it. Then, there were women who looked completely different without wearing any makeup on their faces. Those were

face, in addition to her apparent shyness and natural blushing, was not a common sight. The men marveled at the way she carried herself, and found that

give a little

she kept it short, “Thank you, everyone, for supporting this auction. And thank you for showing your

esteemed guests will

encouraging statement. When the price had gone up to eight million, he turned to Clarissa and suggested, “We’ve come this far. Why don’t you add something to the mix, Ms. Quigley? Round it up to ten

the host. What else

has just auctioned off a day of her

persisted. The host found

was about to pull the plug at eight million, a

“Twenty million!”

as

“Whoa—”

crowd flew

bid had gone all the way

host was

event like this. Any one of Olive’s

also depended

fact that Clarissa’s manuscript could exceed one million was nothing

was willing to

calls for twenty million! Twenty million! Any other bidders? If not, then Ms. Quigley’s manuscript will go to

more bids. It was then that some members of the audience suddenly recalled what happened three years ago. Wait a minute, Mr. Tyson had a fiancée, didn’t he? And

was sold to Matthew

bold proposal, “On this wondrous occasion, shall we have Ms. Quigley present her manuscript

host knew nothing about the scandal between

thought he was mighty clever to have come up with the idea to have the two of them interact with

led Clarissa to hand over the manuscript

Matthew, who accepted it calmly

could not

a conversation, he began, “Ms. Quigley, do you have anything to say to Mr. Tyson? He spent twenty million on your manuscript,

much on my item… Geez… Fine! I’m going to let this one pass

“Thank you.”

anything you’d like to say to

“No.”

know how to respond to that

dryly and closed off the segment with a few words. He got back onto the stage and resumed the auction,

Clarissa quietly returned

between Matthew and herself three years ago, nor was she interested in knowing what the guests thought of

not know that Matthew’s scandal from three

was performing

sit beside Clarissa, a wine glass in hand. Joshua caught up to him and made it seem like the two were competing

her, joined by