Rejected Heiress, Reigning Queen novel Chapter 97

Item after item was presented on the auction block. Emma didn't give her bet with Gillian a second thought, casually bidding on anything that caught her eye or seemed like a good gift.

Every time she won a bid, Gillian shot her a gloating look.

"She's definitely just bluffing."

When Gillian spoke, she realized Percy wasn't listening. She turned to find him staring intensely at Emma.

Emma kept leaning over to whisper to Carter, and Carter would occasionally reach out to hold her hand.

Percy's gaze turned somber. He knew Emma well; she had always maintained strict boundaries. Even when Carter was nice to her in the past, she had always kept a polite distance.

But now... that distance had completely evaporated.

"Percy."

Gillian immediately latched onto his arm, her voice dripping with sickly sweet affection.

Percy snapped out of it, offering a flat response. "Let's just focus on the auction. The blue diamond is coming up."

Blue diamonds were phenomenally rare, and the one being auctioned today was of an incredibly vivid, flawless clarity.

A single carat of a stone this perfect could easily fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars.

This specific ring boasted a thirty-carat center stone, making it virtually one of a kind globally.

"The starting bid for this exquisite blue diamond ring is eighteen million dollars."

Gillian shot Emma a nasty look before raising her paddle along with the crowd.

Within minutes, the price skyrocketed from eighteen million to thirty million dollars.

The number of active paddles in the room dwindled rapidly, and Emma hadn't so much as opened her mouth.

"Thirty-five million," Gillian called out herself. The room fell silent; no one else dared to counter.

She locked eyes with Emma, sneering, "What's the matter? Too scared to speak? Now that Mr. Harrington can't bail you out, you're terrified, aren't you?"

"Forty million."

Emma calmly signaled the staff member to raise her paddle, jumping the price by five million without blinking.

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