Messing With Her? Are You Crazy! novel Chapter 1774

The more The Raven thought about it, the more suffocated he felt by the sheer injustice of it all. Yet, he couldn't say a damn word. He was forced to sit in this miserable room, hiding behind an anonymous alias, fighting the entire world for a biological asset that already belonged to him. He clenched his fists, staring intensely at the massive screen. Out on the auction floor, every other faction had completely folded. First, no one was suicidal enough to challenge The Sterling Sovereign's bank account. Second, this Anonymous Bidder 01 clearly had zero intention of backing down. Whatever The Sterling Sovereign raised, the anonymous player matched. They had casually breached the ninety billion dollar mark. This was a war between gods, and the regular mortals had absolutely no place at the table. Meanwhile, sitting comfortably in the VIP suite, Serena admired the ninety billion dollar bid on the screen, her stunning eyes narrowing with amusement. "He's still matching it. Looks like AWS-14 really is his prized possession." The tension of the bidding war seemed to have momentarily cooled the dangerous heat radiating from the seductive man holding her. Serena finally pushed herself up, leaning casually against his chest. The glow from the massive monitor danced in her eyes, highlighting her absolute wicked brilliance. Nicholas looked down at her, a slow, predatory smirk curving his lips. From sixty billion all the way to ninety billion, his expression hadn't changed once. He simply sat back and let the girl in his arms play with his bidding terminal, leisurely pressing the button to drop one earth-shattering bet after another. [The Sterling Sovereign: One hundred billion dollars.] Another ten billion! The bid officially crossed into the stratosphere of one hundred billion. It was a legendary, incomprehensible sum of money. The entire auction hall completely unraveled. Even the most composed, veteran buyers lost their cool. One hundred billion blew every single lot from the entire night out of the water. Yet, The Sterling Sovereign was raising the stakes without a second of hesitation. There was no testing the waters, no inching the price up slowly. He was daring the other guy to match him, fully prepared to drown him in cash. At that moment, every single pair of eyes in the room locked onto the interface, waiting for the counter-attack. Was Anonymous Bidder 01 going to fold? Inside his suite, The Raven stared at that blinding, catastrophic one hundred billion, his face twisted into an expression of sheer agony. Originally, he wasn't supposed to be sitting here sweating over bids. He wasn't supposed to act like a desperate buyer, constantly checking his offshore reserves. He was just supposed to oversee AWS-14’s standard transit protocol to Whitecliffe Harbor. Everything had been perfectly planned. But now... because of The Panacea, he had lost his operational base, he had lost his security clearance, and he was locked in this room, forced to watch his own property get auctioned off for a record-breaking hundred billion dollars. Gripping the terminal, his knuckles turned completely white, the dark murderous intent in his eyes threatening to spill over. Why the hell was The Sterling Sovereign fighting him so fiercely for AWS-14? Thinking of The Sterling Sovereign, The Raven’s pupils suddenly dilated. A horrifying realization struck him. Who else was sitting inside The Sterling Sovereign's private suite? The Panacea! The moment her name crossed his mind, every single disaster from tonight snapped into focus. Bloodshot fury consumed his eyes. It was The Panacea who had stolen AWS-14 from him, forcing him to manually destroy Obsidian Sun's heavily fortified shadow base aboard Project Zero-Transit. It was The Panacea who had shoved AWS-14 onto the auction block, using the ship's crew to publicly strip away the asset's secrets layer by layer. And now, she was sitting inside The Sterling Sovereign's VIP suite, using his limitless funds to bid against him! The vein on The Raven’s forehead throbbed violently. He couldn't understand it. What exactly was this woman trying to do? She had gone to insane lengths to rip AWS-14 away from Obsidian Sun, only to put it up for sale. And now she was throwing down billions to buy it back? Unless... The Panacea never actually wanted AWS-14 to begin with. She was just artificially inflating the price.