Chapter 124: BID LOW
At Ethan’s bedroom, Erika laid on the bed after a tired love-making session. After countless attempts to wake up, she decided to just sleep in. Ethan walked into the room with a hot, steamy breakfast to replenish her energy.
Once Erika’s nose inhaled the sweet aroma of the food, she abruptly sprang up, "Is that breakfast?" She asked him as she rubbed her hands together, anticipating the arrival of the food.
"Yup, I think I tired you last night", Ethan said.
"You think?" Erika raised her eyebrow at him. She sat up and exposed her neck and collarbone that had several love bites. "Look at what you did last night", she pointed at the love bites and he smiled sheepishly at her.
"You know, if you are so confident with exposing yourself like that, I’m going to assume that you want to seduce me", Ethan said with a grin. Erika quickly fell under the covers when she realized she was naked. "Let’s eat", Ethan placed the tray of food on the bed properly so the food wouldn’t spill.
"Yummy as always", Erika complimented when she had a taste of the bacon.
The both of them spoke about miscellaneous things until they finished their breakfast. Ethan took the dishes to the kitchen to clean them while Erika got into the shower. After she was done, she grabbed her phone to check her messages until she stumbled on something on the internet.
’The Hart Mansion On Auction’
Erika scoffed after reading the news, "So he wants to sell the mansion so that he can get money to pay for his debts, what a fool", she spat out.
Ethan walked inside the room to find her staring at her phone with an annoyed look so he asked, "Anything the problem?"
"That idiot is selling the mansion", she replied.
"Which of the idiots?"
"Adrian," she replied.
She continued her scrolling only to find the starting bid of $20m. "The starting bid is $20m."
"Do you want to buy the mansion?" Ethan asked her and Erika paused her scrolling. She had not thought about buying the mansion until an idea popped into her head and she nodded.
"Yes I want to buy it, for $40m", she replied.
Opening his eyes wide, Ethan stared at her with a shocked expression. Even though the Hart mansion was an old mansion, it was worth more than $40m. Why would she buy it for $40m? He wondered.
"He is putting it on auction obviously to earn money so that he can pay the bank but I don’t ever want that man to be free, I want him to die from poverty", she answered his inner thoughts.
"So $40m?" He asked her and she nodded.
"I’m sure a lot of their former business partners would come to buy the mansion and they might even price it down due to their greed so I’m actually adding a bonus", she added.
"Okay, if you say so," Ethan pulled out his phone to make a phone call, inquiring about when the auction would commence. When he was done, he turned to Erika and said, "Consider it done".
"You didn’t pay with your money, did you?" She asked him.
"Of course, it’s my money, I wouldn’t let you pay that huge amount of money by yourself", he replied. Erika sat down and cupped his face to place a peck on his lips.
"You are the sweetest boyfriend ever", she complimented him.
"And you are the sweetest girlfriend ever", he pulled her neck in to deepen the kiss.
At the prison cells in California, both Felicia and Mary have been working together to escape from the prison but all their ideas have always failed. It had already been three months since they were jailed.
It was noon, and the other inmates who had prepared the food started sharing it with the other inmates. By the time it was both Felicia and Mary’s turn, the inmate skipped them and moved to the other inmates, making the two frown at her.
"Hey, you have not given us any food", said Felicia but the inmate pretended to not have heard her question. "Hello, I am talking to you", she yelled much louder, gaining the other inmate’s attention to land on her.
"Who is she? Does she not know not to yell in this place", one of the inmates whispered to another.
"She probably wants to get beaten up", the other inmate whispered back.
"Felicia, let’s sit down. Don’t create a ruckus", said Mary as she tried pulling Felicia to sit back down but Felicia was burning with rage and she flung the old woman’s hand away.
"She served everyone and skipped us now. Is that fair? Hey?" She tried to point it out. When the inmate was done sharing the food, she walked back inside the kitchen and informed their superior who was sizing Felicia up since she had started barking.
The boss of the inmates, a skinny woman who seemed to be in her late forties, walked out of the kitchen and towards Felicia.
PAK!!!
She lifted her hand and landed a slapFelicia hard on the cheek, giving her a bruised lip.
Mary quickly rushed forward to defend her daughter-in-law, "Hey! Why would you slap her like that, don’t you know she is pregnant?"
"Maybe she needs to lose the baby so that she can have some sense here", the boss pointed at Felicia’s head, where she should have her senses.
"What nonsense! Do you know who I am?" Mary questioned the leader with a fierce look.
"Do you want to receive a slap just like her too?" The leader questioned Mary and she immediately kept mute. "If she yells and complains again, she won’t be receiving just a slap", the boss threatened and left.
Felicia was about to retort but she quickly shut her mouth when Mary pinched her on the skin.
Every inmate who had witnessed the slap sat back down to enjoy their food. To be personally selected by the boss was the biggest achievement in the cell, which means the inmate would receive more benefits.
