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The auditorium of the university was packed with students and alumni, ready to spend some cash.
“Let’s make this a great event!
The crowd started screaming and chanting to begin.
“This stunning girl is Paige Summers! She’s majoring in business administration and loves the ocean. If she’s not reading a romance novel then she’s out at the beach, working on her tan! She loves anything chocolate and pizza.”
I smiled, glancing at her.
She winked at me. “We’ll start the bidding at fifty dollars! Do I hear fifty?”
“Fifty!” a guy in the front yelled with his hand up in the air.
“Do I hear a hundred?”
“A hundred!” another guy called out.
It went on like this for the next five minutes.
“Do I hear a thousand?”
“Two thousand dollars,” a man in the back declared. I didn’t recognize him.
“I’ll do twenty-two, fifty!” another bidder hollered.
Until the gentleman in the front offered, “Three thousand dollars!”
Holy crap! What is he going to expect for three grand?
My heart was beating profusely. I could feel it in my throat and at my temples. The bidding war ended with a guy offering ten thousand. I couldn’t believe someone was paying that much money for a date with me. Good thing he was handsome.
I met him outside, near the concession stand.
“Hi, Paige.” He extended out his hand. “I’m Eric.”
I shook it. “Nice to meet you.”
He had kind eyes. I didn’t mind having to spend the entire day with him tomorrow.
“I’ll pick you up in the morning.”
“Sounds great. Hopefully,” I nervously laughed. “I’m worth ten k.”
“Babydoll, you’re worth a million.”
“Cheesy, but I appreciate the compliment. I have to ask, where did you get that kind of money? I mean how old are you?”
He smirked. “I’m twenty-one and I have to spend my parents trust fund on something other than booze. Any suggestions on what you’d like to do?”
“Ummm…” I smiled. “I don’t care. Whatever you have planned I’m sure I’ll enjoy.”
“I love a woman who wants a man to take charge.”
We spoke for a couple of minutes. I desperately tried to not think about Adrian, but it was no use. There was no connection between Eric and me. My stomach didn’t flutter, my palms weren’t sweaty, nothing of what usually happened with Adrian. It was truly pathetic, the infatuation I had with him.
Would it ever end?
Once I walked into my dorm room, hundreds of emotions crossed through my body. I needed to give up hope that something was actually going to happen between us. Cade would forever be his brother. There was no changing that.
