The Day I Kissed An Older Man by Cher the Cherished

Chapter 18

Corinne tilted her head as she looked at Aaron, who immediately understood her hint due to years of tacit understanding with her.

After clearing his throat, he raised his hand to adjust the Bluetooth earpiece he wore out of habit on his left ear, and walked past Jeremy and Corinne in as calm a manner as possible.

He even made a point to lower his voice a little and pretend as if he was speaking to someone over the phone.

“Sorry, Boss. Things got a little awkward earlier. That Holden guy overheard me when I was ranting about him earlier. Well, yeah! He’s the one who outbid us on your favorite painting! Sure. we’ll just forget about it and let him have it! ‘Geese in Late Autumn’ isn’t Nellie Nymphaea’s only painting. There are plenty of other ones we can get in the future!”

Aaron was already quite far away when he ended his sentence.

Corinne stared wide-eyed at Jeremy and cocked her eyebrow innocently. “I think he’s angry at you, mister.”

Jeremy retracted his gaze and turned to Corinne. He began to question her, “Don’t the two of you know each other?”

Corinne shook her head. “I don’t know him at all! Do you? Why was he angry at you again?”

Jeremy narrowed his eyes. “You haven’t answered me yet. What are you doing here?”

Corinne sighed in an annoyed tone. “Don’t you remember that I was fired from Alpha Enterprises, thanks to you? I heard that they’re recruiting auctioneers here, so I submitted my resume and came here for an interview.”

still rather doubtful. “Did you get

shoulders, and spread her palms. “No. They were looking for someone with more than three years of work

looked at her petite appearance. If she were allowed to stand on the auction

and asked, “And what about you? Why

here?”

bronze artifacts, so I came over

mister. You

it

sudden, his cell phone

the call, frowned slightly, and hung up with a grunt. He then stared intently at Corinne.” Where are you going

answered, “I’m going to continue sending in resumes and looking for

he leaned over and spoke in a hoarse, irrefutable tone, Come with me.

Before she could even process what Jeremy said, he had grabbed her wrist and whisked

The last time she was there was when Jeremy forced her to get engaged to

decorations around her, which consisted

from fright. “What are you planning this time, Uncle? Are you going to

you want another wedding?” Corinne immediately rolled

in the direction of the voice and saw a young woman trotting up to Jeremy in a wedding