The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance

Chapter 318

This time, though, it was Haynes who spoke up.

"Of course."

He fixed his gaze on Stella, his dark eyes reflecting her image-deep, probing, as if he could see straight through her.

"She's telling the truth. Everything she bid on, she paid for out of her own pocket. After all..."

Although Haynes was addressing the others, his eyes never left Stella.

"She has a fortune of a hundred million at her disposal. She can spend it however she likes."

Stella's long lashes fluttered, but her face wore only the faintest smile-calm, unruffled.

She didn't deny it. Instead, she asked, "So, Mr. O'Brien, are you going to keep raising the bid?"

Haynes's lips quirked in a cool, almost indifferent smile, but his eyes were like ice.

"With Ms. Cameron throwing money around with such determination, I'd be a fool to compete."

widened. "I've set aside eighty million for this. Aren't you tempted to keep bidding, Mr.

voice was clear and cold, like

you can stop suddenly and leave me holding the bag? If you want it for eighty million, why not

it for forty million, who in their right mind would offer eighty? My money doesn't grow on trees, you know. If I can save forty million, that's more than enough to

dawned on Rachel

million! Of the things Stella had just won, she'd spent a little over ten million—leaving her with nearly ninety million

easily outlast

the price just high enough, only to drop out suddenly and leave someone else with

gamble. The rest of them

hands itch with the

snatched back her mother's necklace. Now, she was about

poisonous glare, Stella

Pearce? Care to

smile. "...No, if you want it so

have it. I won it fair and square. Unless, of course, you'd rather keep bidding? We could compete on even

tightly her nails dug into her palms, but she

this on purpose. She just

tasted blood in her mouth