A Love Forgotten (Arianna and Elijah)
Chapter 154

Chapter 154

The moment the auctioneer announced the start of the bid, Traised my hand. "Thirty-five thousand dollars

No one else called any bids after all, they had not heard of the artist behind this painting, and it did not have any collection value.

All of a sudden, someone else shouted, "Forty thousand dollars!!!

I turned back to look 1 wasn't surprised to see that it was Mas. Acosta

She acted sorry as she said to me, "Oh, Mrs Linden, I'm sorry. I'm quite interested in this piece los."

Thunedhead once again. "Tilty thousand dollars."

1 frowned even deeper.

Jonathan looked over fiercely. "Who's that? Why is she bidding against you? Is she crazy?"

Thesitated for a couple of seconds before calling. "Seventy thousand dollars."

Another voice called out, "One hundred thousand dollars

frowning even harder, I turned to look Mrs. Bryant was interfering too. She shot me a smug look, then looked at Logan beside me and eyed him up Right away, I shouted. "One hundred and fifty thousand dollarsTM

Two hundred and try thousand."

"Three hundred thousand

your hundred and fifty thousand

Just like this, a bid of son dollars was being called for a painting by an unknown artist. No matter how dense one might be, one would have realized that this had become a contest Mrs. Bryant and I wire competing against one another. The other guests started talking among themselves.

"Why is Mrs. Bryant going against the York? What is she getting out of this?"

My thoughts exactly The Yorks and the Bryants are competitors, so why are they creating such a scene?" "Mes. Bryant in usually an overbearing person. Perhaps the Yorks stepped on her toes."

"Ob dear. Why Gen turn out like this?"

did not know what to say and took a deep breath. 1.

Looking at the stage, I now that the

Wille immediately called for a short break

was coming close to 900,000 dollars

lowered berceau d to me, "Ms. York, maybe we should just let it go fast let her have this painting. It only couts tens of thousands of dollars. You don't have to spend up to bundreds of thousands of dollars jou toiter." Before I even said anything. Jouan chimed in coldly. "So what if she wants to go up against her? Are you saying that she can afford it, but Art can't?

Jonathan said to me, "Call another lid! I' fork out the remainder.

I took a deep breath. "One million dollars'

The entire cuvi went into an uproar,

wasn't because this painting was too expensive. Radier, it was because it was bid at such a high price when its value was not as high.

It wasn't a painting by a famous artist was at particularly meaningful. We were spending so much just to get back at one another, The atmosphere in the auction room livened up

After I called a lot of a million doll, Mayted and arrogantly 15 mill

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"L5 million dollars!"

couldn't understand why Masi yant wanted to come at me. Was it because she was embarrassed in front of Logen arber, so she was taking it

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