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."

eighty million for this. Aren't you tempted to keep bidding, Mr. O'Brien? Make me spend a little

and cold,

you want it for eighty million, why not just bid that now? No one

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

dawned on Rachel

own life and blackmailed her for a hundred million! Of the things Stella had just won, she'd spent a little over ten million—leaving

easily outlast

Stella would pull the same stunt she'd used on Jasper- raise the price just high enough, only to

willing to gamble. The rest of

hands itch with the

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

poisonous glare, Stella turned

wrong, Ms. Pearce? Care to bid higher

smile. "...No, if you want it so badly, Ms. Cameron, it's

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

fists so tightly her nails dug into her palms, but she didn't even feel the

is doing this on purpose. She just wants

tasted blood in her mouth from biting down