I was curious about the son of the Murphy family. I looked around the auction area and asked, “Where is Mr. Murphy? I don’t see him.”

She pointed at several places around the area and replied, “The place is filled with surveillance cameras. The young master of the Murphy family is watching everything from the shadows.”

 

I pursed my lips. He sure liked to waste his time.

I looked back at the box onstage and said after a moment’s pondering, “Are you sure the Murphys won’t auction it off?”

She shrugged. “I can’t say for sure.”

“Okay. The current bid is four hundred and fifty thousand. Are there any more bids? Four hundred and fifty thousand going once, four hundred and fifty thousand going twice…” announced the host.

“One million!” someone yelled out, cracking the calm atmosphere.

The bid had come from Joseph. I was appalled and asked in befuddlement, “Mr. Campbell…”

He looked at me solemnly and replied, “Mr. Fuller has requested that I buy this box. It might be able to open your box.”

take a look inside. But, it doesn’t matter whether I’m able to open

a small smile. “Mr. Fuller hopes that you’ll

continued calling

towards me and whispered, “It’s not a huge loss to buy it for one million. You have both boxes now, which means double the value. They can

words over. It seemed like a good idea. I could not open the box on its own. It was a good idea to open it. They also

host called the bid thrice and was about to bang the gavel.

voice bellowed, “Ten

crowd. The bid had far exceeded

about to bid a higher price,

really wanted to open it, we could always try asking the eventual

worth it to spend so much

I found the person

the VIP section, Stacey sighed. “This must be the assistant. The boss

the paddle. He was dressed in a

do you know he’s not the

he had to be a successful person. He

clothing choices. His clothes are all

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