You Are My One and Only

Isaac glanced at Patricia through the corner of his eye and asked, “You haven’t found anything you like, Miss Aniston?”

His eyes almost seemed to sparkle, so much so that Patricia had to squint a little.

“Hah. You must be kidding, Mr. Arnold. These items are all too valuable. I dare not ask for them.”

She meant every word. All she wanted right now was to provide for herself and her three children, and she cared little for things like jewelry and other luxuries.

Isaac’s gaze seemed to intensify. Sure enough, she’s not a greedy woman.

She might seem to care a lot about money, but every single buck she spent was earned through her hard work and labor. He did help her by giving her a job that paid five thousand a month, but she gave it her all too.

She never came late or left early.

She made all the arrangements for his work schedule without ever making a mistake.

She put up with all his fault-finding, accepted all his requests, and even did her best to please him.

After thinking all these through, Isaac turned his gaze back to the podium. The next item on the block would be the one he wanted.

up for auction today, the Celestial Tears necklace. It was

with a black gemstone pendant. It dazzled under the light,

herself from eyeing it more closely. What an extraordinary necklace! It’s almost as if I can

million, her jaw dropped in

she had that much money, she would never buy such an expensive,

again

realized that she could not understand

of the Aniston Family was

the while, the auctioneer kept calling out bid after bid, which rose from six million all the way

expensive! How can anyone

raised his paddle and

uproar

That’s too

my goodness! Who is that up there? He just raised

called out again, “A bid of eighteen million from number eleven. Would anyone else like to

enough, so who was number eleven? What gave them the gall to try and

raised his paddle and said,

voice shook as he said, “A bid of 22

exclaimed at the