This Time, I Will Get My Divorce, Mr novel Chapter 216

Even Tina had figured out that the person who called the bid to a million earlier was Charles, and she guessed that he must be planning to buy it for Sonia. Hmph, she snorted silently. Not in your wildest dreams! Raising her paddle again, she shouted, “1.2 million!”

Next to her, the edge of Titus’ eyes twitched and he hurriedly tried to stop her, saying, “That’s enough, Tina. Stop increasing the bid because this ring isn’t worth that money at all.”

“I don’t care,” she snapped through gritted teeth, her eyes turning red. “I can’t let Sonia get what she wants!”

Frowning, Titus was about to say something when another man shouted, “1.5 million!”

This voice… Sonia thought when she heard the voice, and her face lit up. “That’s Carl, Charles. It’s Carl!”

“I know it’s that rascal,” Charles answered with a nod and raised his paddle. “1.7 million.”

I swear there’s no one I hate more than Charles and that guy who called 1.5 million! Tina thought furiously. I must be cursed to run into them today! Gripping her paddle tightly, she made up her mind determinedly and added three hundred thousand to the bid. “Two million!”

An uproar broke out in the crowd, and Toby knitted his brows in his private suite on the second floor, thinking, What’s up with Tina? Why does she want the ring so badly? “Three million!” he said, pressing down the button.

The auctioneer sucked in a deep breath and announced the new bid with a shaky voice, resulting in another round of surprised gasps from the crowd.

Who’s this big shot that’s able to add a million to the bid just like that? They wondered in amazement and turned their heads to the first private suite.

Narrowing his aged eyes, Titus began to suspect that the one in the first private suite might be Toby, and he was very unhappy about the fact that Toby didn’t allow them into his private suite. After all, I’m his future father-in-law, he thought. Isn’t he worried that I’ll be unhappy if he did that?

“3.5 million!” Charles called a bid once more.

The next second, Carl shouted as well, “Four million!”

“4.5 million!” Zane, who wasn’t bidding all this while, joined in suddenly.

Shaking her head, Sonia uttered, “This is crazy. All of you have lost your minds!”

“No worries, baby,” Charles assured. “Can’t you tell that we don’t even want to buy the ring, but just want to pull a prank on Tina?” he asked with a smirk as he swayed the paddle in his hand.

Rolling her eyes, she replied, “Of course I know what you guys are up to, but don’t forget about the person on the second floor. It goes to show that he must be kind of influential if he can afford a private suite in an auction. He’s definitely not someone we can offend. If he ends up as the one buying the ring instead of Tina, then you guys would have offended him by raising the bid deliberately.”

“Don’t worry about that because we have already offended him a long time ago. The young master of this auction is a friend of mine that I met in university, and I already checked with him who’s the person in the first suite beforehand. Toby’s in there.” Shrugging, he added, “Since Toby is on Tina’s side, getting either of them will be a win for us.”

Surprised, Sonia asked, “Toby?”

Tina, however, didn’t know what was on his mind. Her tears stopped flowing down her cheeks the minute she heard his explanation. “Really?”

Taking the ring out of his pocket, he then handed it to her and said, “You can take a look at it if you want.”

To his dismay, she really took the ring from him and inspected it. Although he was the one who offered the ring for her inspection, he was still indescribably annoyed when she did it because it showed that she didn’t believe him. Most importantly, she had mentioned in her letter that she would trust him, but in hindsight, Toby didn’t think she had ever trusted him.

While he pursed his lips, deep in his own thoughts, he heard Tina cry out in surprise, “There really is an emblem here!”

Keeping away his emotions, he answered curtly, “Of course.”

“I’m sorry for misunderstanding you, Toby. I thought you bought the ring for Miss Reed,” she said and returned the ring to him.

Bursting out in a hearty laugh, Titus chirped, “Everything is alright now that you’ve cleared the misunderstanding.”

“Yeah,” Toby answered absentmindedly and took the ring from her hand. Subconsciously, he rubbed all around the ring with his thumb and came to a sudden realization that he was doing it because he was disgusted that Tina had made the ring dirty.

“Toby?” Tina called out, waving her hand in front of him, and he was pulled back to reality.

“What is it?” he asked.

“I should be the one to ask you that. Why are you suddenly in a daze?” she asked, looking at him.

Lowering his gaze, he answered calmly, “Nothing. Something was just on my mind. By the way, why do you want to bid for the ring, Tina?” He placed the ring into his pocket again and looked at her with interrogative eyes.

In reply, she hung her head woefully and muttered, “It’s all because you don’t want to give me a ring and said that I’ll only get one when we’re married. So, when I saw the ring Miss Reed donated and remembered that you have the other one with you, I thought I could make it a pair with yours if I buy it and take it as though it’s a gift from you. That’s why I tried to bid for it.”