Love Slave to the Mafia Boss's Passion 18 novel Chapter 129

“Welcome everyone to our exclusive auction. As always, we are your hosts for today. As I’m sure that everyone has attended this auction before or have already read the rules, I will proceed to the first item without any further delays…” the woman in the bright red dress said through the microphone.

We’re at an auction?!

Everyone was clapping as the first item for the auction was brought to the center of the stage. That’s the statue that was on the first page of the book, if I’m not mistaken. Wait…does that mean?

That can’t be. All the artworks in the book are either super rare, missing or stolen…

Or could it be?

Suddenly my hands and feet felt very cold as it suddenly hit me. Tell me this is a joke…

But if it’s true then, the reason why he told me to pick out something for him…

“The book…is for the items that will be put up for auction?” I asked in sheer disbelief.

“Yup,” Hayden replied.

“You’re going to bid for the painting?!” I cried out loudly at my sudden realization as I whirled around to face Hayden.

I still couldn’t bring myself to believe that someone actually found the painting and it was going to be put up for auction here. However, the same logic applied to the statue that is currently on stage. Other people in the audience were rapidly bidding on the statue, driving up the price. The hosts were doing an amazing job of facilitating the bidding too.

“Shh…don’t panic, Malissa,” Hayden said as he put a finger up to his lips.

I sat next to Hayden stunned as item after item were put on stage and auctioned off to the highest bidder. Every item ending at an outrageously high price. How many zeros is that again? Judging from the ending price of the other pieces, a knotted started to form in the pit of my stomach as I realized that the same would probably happen to the painting that I had chosen.

That’s just crazy!

“You’re not…buying this for me, right?” I asked for confirmation. I could never take anything this exorbitantly expensive as a gift. Not to talk about the fact that it was probably illegal to own most if not all of the pieces of art there were being auctioned.

“Of course not. I’m buying it for myself. Since you’re knowledgeable in art, I thought it would be good if I bought a piece that you like,” Hayden replied casually.

Phew! I let out such a big breath of relief.

“That’s a real relief…you cannot imagine just how relief I am…” I said before smiling at him.

I guess I didn’t have to panic about it. It wasn’t like Hayden could easily win in the bidding. The people here were clearly abnormally rich and very aggressive in their bidding. Now that I wasn’t so worried about the painting that I had chosen, I could concentrate more on the other pieces of art that were brought onto the stage.