CHAPTER 279

“LADIES AND GENTELMEN. The next item of today's auction is this rare and beautiful necklace that is made from the rarest gemstone ever found.”

The host proudly acknowledges, presenting the other one of the two rare necklaces on the auction list. The necklace that Ash knew that Aaron wanted, but now he is having the second thought if they should bid for it just to be given as a gift to the Chairman’s daughter.

Now that their plan is going smoothly and the next item on the list is the one that they are targeting to get with the highest chance that they will have it.

“We should stall this bidding, Aaron.”

He talks informally, leaning from behind, and whispers those words to Aaron in equal standing. Not a CEO and a secretary, but companions and friends inside the organization.

“No.” Aaron immediately protested. “I need that necklace.”

“Need?”

Ash wonders and at the same time offended. Suspicious of Aaron’s recent actions. Wavering and getting soft due to one person that he needed not t