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


    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 dors!!!


    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 dors."


    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 dors."


    Another voice called out, "One hundred thousand dors


    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 dorsTM


    Two hundred and try thousand."


    "Three hundred thousand


    your hundred and fifty thousand


    Just like this, a bid of son dors was being called for a painting by an unknown artist. No matter how dense one might be, one would have realized that this had be a contest Mrs. Bryant and I wirepeting 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 arepetitors, 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


    wasing close to 900,000 dors


    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 dors. You don''t have to spend up to bundreds of thousands of dors 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 dors''


    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 particrly 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 dors!"


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


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