The Million-Dollar Heart by Rebecca Ryan

Chapter 246

As Vivienne zoomed past Carl, Darren hollered in excitement. “Holy moly! Our little cousin just gave Carl a run for his money!”

“Are you for real?” Ashley retorted while rolling her eyes at her brother “Carl’s defeat is Vivienne’s victory, not yours”

“And…” She pointed at the music player. “How on earth did you manage to make it through American Idol with this kind of taste in music?”

“What do you know?” Darren ran his fingers through his silver hair. “I made it thanks to my personal charm.”

“No wonder you immediately switched to acting, even though you got your break through a singing competition” Ashley snorted “You must have realized early on that you lacked the talent.”

“You.” Darren gritted his teeth. “I won’t stoop to your level!”

While the siblings were bickering, Vivienne had already driven into River Village.

The private gemstone auction, held by MT Corporation, was an annual event, and this wasn’t Vivienne’s first time attending.

She parked the car in front of the auction house like a pro and waited for Carl to arrive.

“Were you driving just now?” Carl asked Darren with a stern look as soon as he got out of the car. He was not able to see the driver because of Vivienne’s speed just now.

“Yeah, I was. Got a problem with that?” Darren replied with a smug look.

Vivienne raised an eyebrow, while Ashley and Ronald rolled their eyes. They couldn’t believe how shameless Darren could be.

as he knew that Ronald was always cautious when driving and would never pull a stunt like that. Ashley, on the other hand,

beckoned everyone to follow her into the

them, while

Ronald,

I’ll get it for you.” Ronald whispered to Vivienne. “I didn’t have time to prepare a gift for you since

at Ashley and chuckled. “But don’t let Ashley know. She’ll bleed my

She had a good impression of

two pieces of gemstone, which were obviously cut from the same stone, placed at the entrance. They were both of the

near the entrance was filled with these sorts of

others didn’t pay them any attention and headed straight for

unlike the other buyers who paid to

you today. Feel free to choose anything you like.” He said with a

pointed to Vivienne and Ashley. “I’m here just to browse around, but my two friends are not familiar with gemstones. Could you arrange for someone to

them?”

his assistant to

They

others were familiar with jade and didn’t need any assistance. They grabbed flashlights and began looking

initially intended to find a jade bracelet similar to the one Judith had gifted Vivienne. However, such pieces were hard to come by. After searching for a while and finding nothing satisfactory, she finally purchased a cut piece of sky–blue gemstone for half million dollars. She planned to make a pair of bracelets from it and use the leftover material for smaller pieces of jewelry. It

also purchased some gemstones to be

gemstones, but the staff member named Jacob who was assigned to her was constantly making irrelevant comments. He tried to dissuade her from buying good pieces and coax her into

member assisting

over at Calista, who was being fawned over by Eddy and Carl