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.

going to use the

left Maverick alone for a little

on the audio recorder on her phone before hiding

right thing to the right people. She had to resort to

to the table just as the

matter? Is the wine

clumsy that he splattered the wine everywhere. I told him to get us a new set

make a mistake or two. Don't tell me you told him off the way you used to reprimand me last time," Ariel said with a

recalled their history together and started going down memory lane. "I never had a

one. Your standards simply became

to spend the rest of my life with

but not the only one, and not

sounds so grand and moving, but when you take a closer look, it'll

to a speech-to-text file, so she went ahead to read it. As she did, she raised

first time

'Yes, sir.'

fool. No amount of wine can hide the

Mr. Taylor. I'll

be the same even if you fill it up again. Take everything away and bring a new set over. This time, just cover the walls of the glass

got it. I'll do exactly as

The conversation stopped there.

enough, Maverick was resorting to this trickery

and assumed she was talking to Danny, so he quipped sarcastically, "I have no idea what you women think. You can even accept your partner cheating on you, albeit just physically. Back then, I didn't sleep with anyone else and I didn't cheat

been sullied physically, but their heart remains pure, while others can't hide

long since proven who was true to her and who was merely putting on a show.

implication of her words and his

between them. Just then, the server came back and

the intrusion. I

was told 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 unhappy thoughts for now. Cheers

glass and tipped it at him before drinking

and spat everything back out