ARLENE

The bid finally ended with Liam making the last offer and Cole conceding when he realized this was a war he wasn’t going to win unless he was willing to gamble with the idea of being bankrupt.

The room erupted into cheers and loud applause when the bid was finalized, and I just sat there, shocked to my core.

I would’ve never believed something like this would happen, and now that it was a reality, I was still having trouble coming to terms with it. The collection that I thought was hasty work and not a good representation of my expertise had become the pacesetter for how the next...