Chapter 17: Ch 17: Securing the First asset- Part 2
"Please sit down, Miss. I will bring someone else here to show you around. Would you like some tea? Coffee? Or juice?"
Selene looked at the panicking clerk with an amused look on her face. It seemed as if the staff was giving her their undivided attention. They had even forgotten that she was barely of age to buy the property.
The moment Selene displayed her wealth, the atmosphere in the agency shifted.
Gone was the mild disinterest.
Gone was the dismissive attitude.
The staff, who had barely spared her a glance before, suddenly couldn't stop smiling.
They pulled out chairs for her, offered her refreshments, and treated her like royalty.
Money talked.
And it spoke loudly.
Selene sat with calculated poise, watching as the manager himself came out to meet her—a well-dressed man in his forties, with a practiced smile that did little to hide the calculating gleam in his eyes.
"Miss Vale, I must say, we weren't expecting someone so young to make such an ambitious purchase."