Female Novel
Chapter 158
After being ridiculed time and again, Finneas was utterly frustrated, and he looked around the place.Subsequently, he picked up a flower pot on the side and lunged at Pierre, aiming it at his head.
As though he had expected it, Pierre dodged, causing Finneas to topple onto the floor with theflower pot still in his hands and end up covering his face in the soil.
Selena, who was unguarded when Pierre pushed her aside, slammed into the wall and hit her headpainfully. When Pierre heard her sucking in a deep breath of air in pain, he glared at Finneas on theground.
“I hate it the most when someone pulls a sneak attack from behind.”
With his face covered in dirt, Finneas scrambled to his feet and shouted, “Bring it on! I’m not afraidof you!”
“Fine.”
With that, Pierre beat him to the ground again neatly and quickly. This time, however, he didn’t showany mercy and landed each punch on Finneas accurately, with a few punches landing on his face.
All beaten up and bruised, Finneas lay on the ground motionlessly. Sensing something amiss,Selena hurriedly pulled Pierre back. “That’s enough. Stop hitting him.”
Seeing that she was pleading on his behalf, Pierre became even more infuriated and gave Finneasa hard kick before storming out of the place. After calling an ambulance for Finneas, Selena wentafter Pierre immediately. Whatever it was, she had already done her best for the beaten up man.
Meanwhile, Pierre didn’t start the engine right after getting into the car. When he saw Selenachasing after him outside the restaurant, he thought he would settle scores with her once she gotinto the car. He was merely gone for a few minutes and it was enough for her to hook up with
Finneas again! Not only that, she even pleaded for him! How could this woman side with him? It’sabout time I lecture her!
After glancing at the time, Selena saw that Juniper’s lesson would be over soon, so she had to goand pick her up. Hence, she shouted at Pierre, “I’m going to pick up Juniper. You go ahead first!”Then, she left the spot hurriedly.
Pierre was so mad that he slammed the steering wheel. How could this woman act as thoughnothing has happened?!
Later at night, after tucking Juniper in bed, Selena turned on her cell phone and saw no news fromPierre, which made her wonder if he had misunderstood her with Finneas. No matter what, she feltthat he was probably angry earlier, but she wasn’t exactly sure of the reason.
When she finished composing her text message, she stopped and didn’t send it out immediately.
“He wouldn’t be that petty, would he?” she wondered out loud. “It’s impossible that he would thinkanything of Finneas since he had always thought of himself as invincible all this while.”
Hence, she deleted the text and went through the information about the auction the next day whichLinda had sent to her before falling asleep on her bed.
The next day, she attended the auction with Linda. According to her, there were quite a few preciousitems to be auctioned off on this day, which was why there were many people, creating anexceptionally lively atmosphere at the auction.
Usually, during the Royal Auction, the bidders would be placed in different rooms, and their nameswould be replaced with codenames to avoid some disputes which might arise.
Selena and Linda were placed in room number 18, which had a big screen in the middle of the roomdisplaying the main platform of the auction.novelbin
Soon, the auction started and the items in the beginning didn’t catch Selena’s interest at all, until thejade bracelet appeared.
“This is the last item for our auction today. It’s a jade bracelet with hundreds of years of historybehind it. It initially came in a pair, but we only have one for the auction today,” the host explained.Then, he went on to elaborate on the history of the bracelet in detail, and this was also the first timethat Selena was learning about the origin of her mother’s bracelet.
Apparently, the jade bracelet started off as a royal jewelry and was a favorite item of the queen.Later, it was bestowed to a great minister, who then gave it to his son, who in turn passed it on tohis wife, and it became a family heirloom which was passed down for generations.