The Understated Dragon Lord

Chapter 28 Deal is Deal

“Two million is definitely out of the question! For these three items you have, Jessica, I can only offer two hundred thousand.”

“One million eight hundred thousand!”

“One hundred eighty thousand.”

Nicholas’s counteroffer left Jessica stunned.

“Smiley Nick, what do you mean by this?”

“Jessica, I wasn’t particularly interested in your items to begin with. Since you’re calling out random prices, it’s only fair I can too! I never planned on buying them. However, I can totally accept if you want to sell at the price I offered.”

even though the items were forgeries, their total value was around five hundred thousand dollars. If he

million, gave me three forgeries, and still, that’s not enough for you? You want to keep scamming me? As the owner of Auctiq, you can’t possibly fail to recognize that even as

Jessica, you say I scammed you out of eighty million – that’s not right. Since you wanted to buy

you called out a price of two million, clearly aiming to deceive me for my money. I naturally can’t accept that, so my offer of one hundred eighty thousand is purely self- defense. Of course, the choice is yours – you can simply choose not to sell. Auctiq has been operating for

these items elsewhere, no one would be willing to buy them. The risk associated with such forgeries was high.

than one hundred thousand because the

Genuine antiques are difficult to match with the

even harder to

premier auction house in Delvin Hub was its vast

antiques.

you’ve put it that way, Smiley Nick, I won’t sell these

turned away and commanded