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Douglas replied, “Joe, my mom just called me to go home to deal with some family issues. I have to go back home now. I think you should come and keep an eye on Claire…”
“Okay,” Joe replied. “I will look for you later. You should go and get busy already.”
After hanging up the phone, Joe parked his car at the side of the road before hailing a cab to the Aurous Hill Convention and Exhibition Center.
The Aurous Hill Convention and Exhibition Center was a large-scale real estate project specializing in undertaking various exhibitions. Most of the large-scale exhibitions in Aurous Hill would always be held here.
After entering the exhibition hall, Joe looked around and realized that he was surrounded by many ordinary citizens who were here to look at cars. The surrounding platforms were all filled with various luxury cars.
The first car that Joe saw was the Audi A8, and there were many other luxury cars in the exhibition hall including luxury sports cars such as Lamborghini and Ferrari. The highest platform was located at the center of the exhibition hall, and there was one red and one black luxury sports car sitting on top of the platform.
These two sports cars were the ones given to Joe by Zeke and Graham.
An Aston Martin ONE-77 and a Bugatti Veyron Hermes edition.
These two super luxurious cars were the highlight of the auto show, and many people and reporters were surrounding the cars at this time
There were also two strong and tough-looking security guards standing beside the cars at this time. The security guards stood at the front and back of the luxury sports cars so that the crowd of people would not be able to touch the expensive cars.
The host began introducing the cars at this time. “These two cars have already been sold. Therefore, it is a personal item. You can look and you can also take pictures of the cars, but you are not allowed to touch the cars. Thank you for your cooperation.”
At this time, a reporter asked, “The auto show has just begun and the two cars have already been sold? Is it convenient for you to reveal who these two rich men who bought the cars are?”
The host smiled before he replied, “We are not talking about two rich men. In fact, one rich man owns both of the cars here.”
“One?!” The reporter exclaimed in disbelief. “The two luxury sports cars were bought by the same person?”
“Yes.” The host nodded before he said with a smile, “These two cars belong to the same man!”
The host’s words stunned everyone present in the exhibition hall.
These two cars were top-class luxury sports cars. There were just a few of these cars in the whole country, and an ordinary person could only see it in an auto show like this. The same man actually owned both of these cars?!
Both of the luxury sports cars could not simply be bought with money!
The Aston Martin ONE-77 could only be bought by members of the Aston Martin brand. Moreover, the member would only be eligible to buy the car if he already owned three or more Aston Martin sports cars worth more than tens of millions of dollars each.
That was the basic qualification criterion for the member to be eligible to buy the car. The Aston Martin ONE-77 was very limited and there were only seventy-seven units of this car in the entire world. This particular one in the exhibition hall right now was the one and only Aston Martin ONE-77 in the country!
It was even more difficult to buy the Bugatti Veyron Hermes special edition sports car because Bugatti itself only served the world’s richest people! Since this sports car was a special collaboration with Hermes, it was even more expensive and limited!
To think that these two cars had actually been bought by the same person. This proved that the identity and status of this person were incredibly shocking indeed!
However, Joe’s focus was not on the two cars.
He was looking for Claire amongst the crowd of people.
He continued looking around for the longest time but he could not find Claire at all. When he was ready to give up, he suddenly heard a man standing next to him say, “Claire, come and take a look at these two cars. These two sports cars are the best in the world, and it is my first time seeing it today!”
Joe turned around as soon as he heard the man’s voice, and he saw Claire with another man and woman.
The man was wearing a suit and leather shoes, whereas the woman was dressed in a slim-fit dress. However, the woman could not be compared to Claire at all.
Claire smiled slightly as she walked behind the man and said, “Mr. Grant, I do not know much about cars.”
The person that Claire referred to as Mr. Grant laughed before he said, “Well, I did a lot of research on cars. After all, our convention and exhibition center often undertakes a lot of auto show activities.”
When Joe saw that Claire was keeping her distance from the man and that she was calling him “Mr. Grant”, he instantly felt relieved, because he quickly guessed that she was only here to talk business with him.
Since his wife was here because of business, she might have misunderstood him if she caught him hanging out here today. Therefore, Joe tried to slip away before she noticed him.
Unexpectedly, just as Joe was trying to leave, Claire raised her head and spotted Joe almost immediately. “Joe! What are you doing here?”
Joe did not expect to be discovered by Claire, so he replied in a hurry, “I came here to look at the cars, my dear wife. Why are you here?”
Claire nodded and did not think too much about it. After that, she quickly introduced her companions to Joe. “Joe, this is Mr. Jason Grant from the Grant family. The Aurous Hill Convention and Exhibition Center belongs to them. They were one of the partners of the Wilson Group, but they had already stopped all forms of collaboration and partnerships with the Wilson Group. The Aurous Hill
Convention and Exhibition Hall will be undergoing a renovation in two days’ time, and Mr. Grant invited me here to talk about a formal collaboration.”
Then, Claire introduced the woman standing next to Jason to Joe. “By the way, this is Jessica Zanders, my former high school classmate. She is now working as Mr. Grant’s secretary.”
At this time, Jessica glanced at Joe with a shocked expression on her face as she said, “Claire! I heard from some of our high school classmates that you married a useless man who is a live-in son-in- law. It turns out that he really is a very ordinary person.”
Jason smiled faintly as he stared at Joe with hostility in his eyes although he hid it very well.
Jason had always been interested in Claire, and he knew about Joe’s existence, but he had never met him before.
When he finally realized that the man standing in front of him was none other than Claire’s husband, Jason looked at Joe before pretending to ask him curiously, “I wonder what you are doing now, Joe?”
Joe simply replied, “I am a vagrant now.”
There was a flash of disdain in Jason’s eyes as soon as he heard Joe’s words. Truth be told, he had already had a good impression of Claire when she was still working for the Wilson Group. He had deliberately looked for Claire when he heard that she had already started her own business. Therefore, he was the one who had intentionally thrown out the order for the refurbishment of the convention and exhibition center before inviting Claire over here today.
At this time, Jason felt as though he had to show off his status in front of Joe. Therefore, he looked at Joe before he smiled and said, “Joe, I don’t think you should be here today. All of the people who came to participate in the auto show today are all famous and wealthy people from Aurous Hill. Aren’t you afraid that you will embarrass Claire by showing up here today?”