Chapter 10

Two weeks later

SOPHIE WESLEY

FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS.

I blinked at my screen, my jaw almost reaching the ground.

Fifty million dollars. That's what I was offered to sell all the paintings including the pen name.

My gaze found the man sitting across from me, and I quickly composed myself, putting my phone away.

They'd requested for a meeting the night I replied to their email, and we'd met two days later to discuss it.

After showing them my painting collections, we'd negotiated, and settled on fifty million for both the works and the pen name outright.

"Just as we discussed, you'll be getting the paintings in a...