The Day I Kissed An Older Man by Cher the Cherished

“Boss? Aren’t we going in?” Aaron asked.

Corinne was rooted to the ground as she watched Jeremy get out of the car and walk into Peakrise Auction House. With a frown, she said, “I saw someone I’d rather not see. Let’s wait a while before going in.”

Aaron looked in the direction of Corinne’s gaze. “That seems to be Jeremy from the Holdens. Do you know him?”

Corinne looked disgusted. “Not really.”

…

The auction hall was divided into upper and lower floors. The first floor was for ordinary buyers, while the second floor was for VIP buyers who did not wish to show their identity. They were granted excellent privacy and were identifiable by their room numbers.

Jeremy was in room one, while Corinne was in room seven.

After several unremarkable artifacts were auctioned off, a set of bronze pieces from this auction were carried to the display stand. Once the auctioneer gave a brief lecture on the background and value of the artifacts, bidding commenced at 1.5 million dollars.

“Two million!”

“Three million!”

“Four million!”

…

Eventually, the mysterious bidder from Room One managed to bid for the set of bronze artifacts at a high price of four million, which elicited gasps of awe from the audience.

Inside room seven, Corinne leaned lazily on the sofa and breathed a sigh of relief. Jeremy seemed to have been eyeing the set of bronze artifacts, and judging from the fact that he had already secured it, he would probably leave soon since there was no reason for him to remain there.

“The next piece is a posthumously published painting titled ‘Geese in Late Autumn’ by the famous impressionist painter Nellie Nymphaea. The starting price is seven hundred and fifty thousand!”

“We have a bid of eight hundred thousand from bidder number three!

“Bidder number eleven, nine hundred thousand!

“And now bidder number five, nine hundred and fifty thousand!”

Corinne raised her chin to give Aaron the signal that he could start raising his placard.

and a half million from bidder

bid, and they began wondering who the powerhouse behind the

to count, “One and a half million going once! Going twice!

before he struck the gavel and uttered the word ‘sold’, Tommy raised his placard from room

the auctioneer by surprise, and he spoke in a more

the hall when bidder number one raised the bid by that big an amount. Everyone wondered if the painting would spark a bidding war between bidder number

frowned and wondered why Jeremy was still

her. “What in the world is Mister Jeremy’s problem? He’s just

“Bid higher,

“Right!”

of four million by buyer number seven. Do we have a higher

comes the five-million bid from bidder number

bidder number seven is going even higher! We now

and a half million! Any further bids

issue at that juncture was

“Since this painting is very important to you, perhaps we can shift the project funds to it for

the company’s capital to my personal affairs. I’ll find another way to get it. We can let Jeremy keep it

but

that bidder

buy that painting at several times more than its original value. This merely showed that rich

works were not very popular either. Jeremy’s reasons for bidding such a high price for ‘Geese in

Two beautiful receptionists from the auction house came into their room

to sit in this room?” one of

recognized the person as Zoey, who had apparently taken up a job as a receptionist at

suit sitting to one side. She gritted her teeth in envy and yelled, “Bravo, Corinne! You made

and loud that the entire auction hall could hear it. Over at room one, Jeremy had just walked out of the room and was about to

had just started her probationary period, but she was already speaking rudely to the VIP buyers! Her actions startled everyone at the venue and left an extremely bad

over with several security personnel. He had Zoey dragged out while he apologized profusely to the bidder

let all hell loose when she was taken away by the security guards and yelled out loud, “You’re a b*tch, Corinne! F*ck you! You made me lose my job twice now! It won’t be long before your man gets tired

on that occasion—there was no doubt that someone named Corinne was there. ‘That girl… She’s here? And she was the one bidding

just sent the auction house manager away after receiving an apology from the latter, and he was about to close the door when Jeremy’s tall figure appeared right

a Corinne here?” Jeremy

nodded with a smile. “Is

narrowed slightly as he said in a cold voice, “Tell

as he turned his head to the

in overalls came out from room seven and stared