The Consortium’s Heir By Benjamin Jnr Chapter 45
“$100,000.”
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There was a brief silence when everyone heard his voice. They couldn’t believe that someone was bold
enough to raise the bid by twice the amount of the previous bid.
Everyone instantly turned to look at the person who raised the bid that high. To their utmost shockit was
none other than Darius!
Darius stood still with his left hand in his pocket and a ss of wine in his right hand. His posture and
nonchnt stare made him look so handsome and attractive that a few girls had red tints on their
cheeks.
Pearl, J, David, Sarah, Helen, Chad, Anna and other several wealthy figures looked at Darius with
different expression written on their faces.
Pearl and J looked closely at Darius. They both epted that Darius was indeed very attractive,
but that wasn’t the reason they looked at him. They felt his face to be very familiar.
J Fox, the second ranked beauty in Kingston University had no idea, but she had indeed met
Darius before. It was when Darius had recently gotten his wealth and purchased the gold membership
card to eat in this same hotel the charity g was hosted.
She had gone to the hotel with two of her friends who were also beautiful, although they were not as
beautiful as her. The main reason why she couldn’t remember Darius was because he looked so
different and twice as handsome as before.
Pearl also thought the same thing as J. She had clearly seen Darius before, but she couldn’t recall
where. Darius appearance had changed too drastically to be easily linked to how he looked before.
Sarah had disdain written on her face. She believed that Darius just wanted to spite her and show her
how much richer he was which was the reason he raised the bid by such a ridiculous amount.
David also had a simr thought to Sarah. He hated Darius with all his heart therefore anything that
Darius did seemed like an eyesore to him. It was incredibly infuriating to him.
However contrary to their thoughts, Darius didn’t raise the bid of the item to spite them or throw his
weight about. He just sincerely loved the painting and felt that $50,000 was too little of a price for the
painting. Besides, the amount he used to buy the painting would be given to charity; therefore the more
he spent the better. “$100,000 going once! Twice! And sold!” “The incredible painting “The beauty of
Nature’ has been sold to Mr. Darius Reid for a sum of $ 100,000! Thank you very much Mr. Reid!” The
man announced. Everyone instantly burst into loud gossips when they heard who the painting went to.
“Darius Reid?!”
“How is this possible?!”
“He was unable to donate $200 at thest charity g, so how on earth is he able to afford such a
huge amount of money?!”
Their shock was understandable. Not everyone was outside when Darius arrived in a very fancy sports
car, so they still had the belief that he wasn’t a rich person. However this single feat of acquiring the
painting for a $100,000 had proved them wrong and pped them in the face! Darius smiled but said
nothing. He only raised his ss to the announcer as a sign of acknowledgement.
The next item on disy was a sculpture of the Greek goddess Aphrodite. It was carved by a fourteen
year old teenager and its starting bid was $100,000, a far cry from the starting bid of the painting This
time around Darius refrained from bidding. There were still different items to be auctioned and he didn’t
want toe off as proud and arrogant. He decided that he would bid only on items that he liked, and
he would bid a substantial amount of money to acquire the items.
The sculpture was finally auctioned off to Pearl Chambein for a high sum of $210,000. She had
gotten into a bidding war with ady for Evergreen University, but finally came out on top. When the
announcer announced her as the winner of the bid there was a huge smile on her face. She was a
huge fan of Greek myth and Aphrodite was her favorite Greek god, therefore she instantly fell in love
with the sculpture.
The next two items were also items that Darius wasn’t interested in, and they sold for $ 130,000 and
$190,000 respectively. The fifth item however was something that Darius could not overlook. It wasn’t
just him, but other people at the g too.
Darius had fallen in love with wine over the few days he stayed at home. During that period, he had
researched intensively on different wines. Therefore you could imagine his shock when he saw a 150
year old wine on disy!
The wines that he had in his wine cer were barely 2 to 3 year old, so he couldn’t imagine how good a
150 year old wine would taste! He knew he had to get it at all costs. Darius wasn’t the only one with
such thoughts. Several people also had simr thoughts. Even those who hadn’t bid before were ready
to go all out on this one.
Pearl also wanted to bid for the wine. She knew that her father was a huge fan of wine and loved the
older wine. Her father had worked incredibly hard for the family to raise them to their current status. Her
father’s birthday was in a few weeks and without a doubt this wine would be the best birthday gift for
father. She made up her mind to get the wine no matter the price.
“As you can see, this is one of the oldest wines in the world at 150 years old. I can assure you that this
is surely a delicacy. The starting bid for this wine is $300,000 with increments of no less than $10,000.”
As soon as the man announced themencement of the auctioning the whole hall erupted and an
intense bidding war started.
“$310,000!”
“$350,000!” “$400,000!” The people who were not wealthy quickly shied away from the bidding war.
They epted that only the wealthy ones would spend so much for a bottle of wine. Even with their
withdrawal, the bidding war didn’t end. Instead, the price of the wine kept rising After a few minutes,
just when everyone thought the wine’s price couldn’t be raised any further, a loud voice proved them
wrong. (1 million dors!”