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The Auction

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"Dad!!! Aren't you done yet?" Sarah asked her uncle from the sitting room where she was sitting.

"Just a minute dear, I'm almost done," her uncle screamed from his room.

"Please dad hurry up, you know how much I hate being late to an event," she said to him with a deep frown.

If there was one thing that Sarah hated the most it was being late to an event, right from when she became the CEO of Ethic Textiles in England, punctuality is something that she have always prioritized both in the company and in her private life; in any event she wanted to attend, she always made sure to the at venue twenty or thirty minutes before the agreed time, in the company she have fired many employees for being late, and even where she is right now, if she learns that any employee is not being punctual, she won't hesitate to fire the employee.

"How do I look?" Her uncle asked her as he was coming down from the stairs.

"Handsome as usual despite the old age, I wonder how you managed to remain single till n
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