Dawn pursed her lips. She could feel Joshua's creepy gaze on her. Before she could raise her plaque, the auctioneer announced, "We have a gentleman at the back with Twenty-three billion." The room fell into complete silence.
The Mayor picked up his plaque immediately. Twenty-three and a half billion dollars. At this point of time Joshua was jumping in his seat. His excitement was overflowing. Dawn sucked in a deep breath through her teeth. She hated him from the core of her heart. She didn't know how, but Joshua had managed to convince the Mayor to buy the refinery. Not only that she wondered as to how he again fell in the good books of the Mayor despite what he did last time. Baffled by the new development, she didn't know when the auctioneer banged the hammer on the table once.
