The Price of His Touch

Zara

The auctioneer's voice rang out again, "Oh, we have a new bid on the floor. Forty thousand dollars." She scanned the room once more, giving it that dramatic pause auctioneers love so much.

"Forty thousand going once, going twice." A short silence stretched across the ballroom, “ okay GONE.” The necklace goes to Mr Vance for forty thousand dollars."

A soft applause rippled through the crowd, a