Coolest Girl in Town

Tons of people would envy Zephyr if he became Irvin's mentor. He would be mentoring the one and only Alexander Griffith's son!

Thus, he wasn't necessarily in a losing situation.

Most importantly, this news would not be painted in a bad light either. He didn't beg, trick, or kidnap Irvin into becoming his mentee. He convinced Irvin with his capabilities!

What was that? Did someone call it a barter trade?

Zephyr objected to that. When had such an unequal trade ever existed, save in times of war?

Even Aladdin could only grant three wishes, yet he could grant thirty! Wouldn't that make him even better than a genie?

He was surely a lot more reliable than all the genies out there.

Clearly, he was a legendary figure with both good looks and remarkable talent.

Yes. That's right. That's exactly how it is.

After coming up with a solid reasoning that was convincing enough for himself, Zephyr glanced at Irvin, who was buried in his experiment, before walking out feeling satisfied with himself.

Meanwhile, at a certain fine-dining restaurant that mostly catered to romantic couples.

Maverick and Ariel were having a candlelight dinner. All throughout dinner, Maverick was the perfect gentleman who was patient in every way possible.

This left Ariel feeling a little confused.

It would not escape the attention of someone as intelligent as Maverick that she only accepted his gesture to anger Danny.

However, he didn't seem to mind it at all. In fact, he was happy to go along with it. One could not help but feel suspicious about this.

"I can't help but wonder just how much Rylantha is giving you for you to do whatever it takes to butter me up, even though it'll never amount to anything," Ariel probed without mincing her words.

"Business and profits aren't the only things we have between us." Maverick smiled and turned to flag down the server. "You can serve the wine now."

Ariel could tell she wouldn't be able to get a straight answer out of him.

to use the

alone for a

her seat, she turned on the audio recorder on her phone before hiding it under a napkin on her chair. Once that was

She had to resort to a few extreme measures of her own if she wanted to find out what

table just as the

matter? Is the wine not

wine everywhere. I told him to get us a new set of wine glasses," Maverick calmly

Don't tell me you told him off the way you used to reprimand me last time," Ariel said with a chuckle as she saved the audio recording on her

memory lane. "I never had a student

the exceptional one. Your

to spend the rest of my life with someone, you're the

was the best, but not the only one,

case with Maverick. Everything he says sounds so grand and moving, but when you take a closer look, it'll always turn out to be so

phone and saw that the audio recording had finished converting to a speech-to-text file, so she went ahead to read it. As she did, she raised an eyebrow. This was

it your first

'Yes, sir.'

fool. No amount of wine can hide

sorry, Mr. Taylor. I'll

away and bring a new set over. This time, just cover the walls of the glass with a thin layer before bringing it over. Got it? If anyone finds out about this, you won't be losing just your job. You won't

it. I'll do exactly

The conversation stopped there.

Maverick was resorting to this trickery behind her

you women think. You can even accept your partner cheating on you, albeit just physically. Back then,

been sullied physically, but their heart remains pure, while others

proven who was true to her and who was merely putting on a show. A few pleasant words and an attempt or two at fawning over her weren't going

of her words

then,

intrusion. I

and poured two glasses of wine. He set the glass with the drugged wine in front of Ariel.

He bowed before retreating.

"Come. Let's set aside these

and tipped it at him before

she calmly wiped her mouth with the napkin and spat everything back