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Anastasia resignedly felt the strength of his grip between his fingers. She was even starting to get distracted even though she was listening to Hendrix singing live. All she could focus on now was the calloused fingertips going back and forth on her palm under the table.
Sitting at a table on the third row, Aliona didn’t once watch the performance on stage. She was constantly finding her opportunity to approach Elliot.
But now that there was a performance going on, it would only be embarrassing for her if she rashly approached Elliot and ended up being kicked out on the spot by the man.
She had to find a time when she would be alone with him.
Coincidentally, Hayley had the same idea as Aliona, which was to meet Elliot alone. That would be the only time she could put on a good show.
At the same time, she was a little worried that Anastasia would notice her. Hence, she could only try to hide herself using May as her human shield.
It was finally time for the first round of the lucky draw session after Hendrix sang two songs in a row.
“Next up, we will draw 50 names as the winners of the consolation prize.”
The name of those who were picked flashed across the big screen, and those who were drawn automatically knew that the grand prize was out of their reach.
The second round of performances began after 50 names were drawn. This time, it was a sensual female singer who sang. And after she was done, 30 names were drawn for the third prize.
Cecilia also had a performance prepared for the event. She went on stage and sang a love song, and she made sure to keep her eyes on Elliot the entire time. It was as though she was senerading him and him alone.
Elliot’s gaze naturally stayed on the stage. As Anastasia looked on, she was hit by a rage that appeared out of nowhere and she began to angrily scratch the back of the man’s hand with her nails.
He turned to look at her with a smile, but she didn’t even look at him as she pretended like nothing was going on.
She had already put her soul into pinching him a second time whereas he could only quietly accept his fate. What a cruel woman! he thought. She can look at other men, but I am not allowed to look at other women?
There was a faint smile playing by the corners of her eyes and mouth, but the man’s hand under the table already had additional scratch marks on the back of it.
She was punishing him with a nonchalant, unsuspecting face.
The next programme after the performance was the lucky draw for the second prize worth 30 thousand.
Then came the first prize and the special prize.
Larry, who was on the stage, couldn’t help his excitement as he announced, “Most of you might not be aware of this, but tonight’s grand prize is a sports car worth five million!”
As soon as these words came out, the audience immediately fell into a commotion as they gasped aloud, “A sports car worth 5 million?!” Wow! Does this make the winner wealthy overnight? What a motivating prize this is. President Presgrave sure is a generous boss!
Anastasia was also stunned to hear Larry’s words. She quickly turned to look at Elliot for answers, but all she could see was a face that revealed nothing for now.
She soon started hearing several voices talking behind her.
“Golly! It would be great if I was the winner!”
“Yeah! It is a sports car worth five million! I don’t even need the car. Just give me the 5 million!”
Despite not being an employee of Bourgeois, Hayley was excited like the rest of them were. How she hoped at this moment that she worked for the company so that she stood a chance to win the car.
May had started clenching her fists out of hopes that she was the winner.
Aliona was the only one who glared at Anastasia with envious eyes that seemed to know what was going on.
The next performance that lasted until 8.30 PM was also an entertaining one before it was followed by the lucky draw for first prize. There would be three winners who would take home 128,800 in cash.
Anastasia could feel how overjoyed the three winners were when they went on stage to get their prizes. There was another performance after that, but everyone was nervous now that they were nearing the time for the announcement of the grand prize winner.
Anastasia had released Elliot’s hand at this point to pray that she would be the lucky winner. The atmosphere thick with excitement was making her anticipate winning the grand prize.
The elated Larry finally took the stage again before he humorously joked, “It is time to draw the name of the winner for the grand prize. I do wish that it was me. I haven’t won anything, after all!”
The crowd laughed out loud after hearing his words. Now that he was done lifting the tension in the air, he pointed to the screen behind him and announced, “Everyone, please look at the screen and see if it is your name that will be appearing in just a moment.”
“Let’s start counting down now! 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2…”
By the time Larry was done with the countdown, a name had appeared on the screen.
It was none other than Anastasia Tillman.
Seeing these two words immediately set the crowd off into an envious frenzy.
Even the winner herself was surprised as she stared at her name on the screen.
“Miss Anastasia Tillman, please come up to the stage,” Larry called for her from the stage.
Then, the woman in question started taking unsteady steps up the stage. She had been hidden within the dark crowd from earlier, but now that her beautiful face was directly under the spotlight for everyone to see, there were only more jealous eyes looking at her.
Even Elliot was so stunned by her beauty that he couldn’t help but think how much she would fit into a girl group.
“I would like to do a short interview with you, Miss Anastasia Tillman. Is your heart aflutter now?”
“I’m alright,” Anastasia calmly replied as she had realized something now.
It seemed like the car was intended as a gift for her from the start and the person who wanted to give it to her had planned to do it through this lucky draw session.
If her guess was not wrong, Elliot was the one who bought her the car.
“Geez! You are too calm, Anastasia. If it was me, I would immediately start dancing to a song on stage!” Larry jokingly gushed.
Hearing that, Anastasia couldn’t help but let out a giggle, which also made a certain man below the stage smile.
Larry kept on teasing her, “How about you sing us a song, Anastasia? Or you could dance for us!”
Anastasia quickly waved as she rejected Larry’s suggestion, “Don’t even think about it. I can’t sing at all, and I am even worse at dancing.”
Larry’s eyes were on her before he added with a sigh, “It is true what people say about how a gorgeous car is for a gorgeous woman. Aren’t you too beautiful to be true, Miss Anastasia?”
“You are also a very handsome man, Vice-president Young,” she smoothly gave him a compliment.
The man immediately broke out in cold sweat when he heard the words. “Oh, no! President Presgrave has got to be the most handsome one here tonight.”
He then turned to Elliot and with a laugh, he asked, “President Presgrave, would you like to come up and say a few words to the audience?”
Elliot waved to show that he wasn’t going to do it. Anastasia came back to her seat after she took her prize, and she threw a helpless glance at Elliot, only for the man to look everywhere but her.
“Happy times always go by fast. We are nearing the end of our annual celebration, but before that, we have prepared a cocktail party for everyone to have a good time.” After saying that, Larry left the stage for the next programme to commence.
As soon as the lights in the hall were turned on, the attendees began moving to another hall for wine tasting. Elliot’s phone began to ring at the same time, so he took his phone and left his seat.
Felicia, who had an envious gaze, came over to greet Anastasia. “Just look at how much effort President Presgrave has put into making you happy!” She sighed.
Anastasia only smiled in silent agreement. Elliot did go out of his way to keep her happy.
Felicia then continued, “Do you know that Aliona is here?”
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