The Girlboss Begs For Remarriage

That explained why the apothecary owner had that weird look on his face when Frank asked if he had any Bright Sky Herb. He must be regretting missing out!

"Then I'm counting on you!" Frank told the shop hand.

"You're always welcome-I mean, surely I can get a tip from this, right?"

The shop hand smiled, shaking his head.

And with that, he whipped out his phone to make the call. "Good morning, Mr. Quaker... I'm Zangi. Yeah, we'd spoken over the phone before did you forget? I'm the shop hand from that apothecary!"

"Just cut to the chase!" Mr. Quaker snapped impatiently from the other end.

Zangi remained calm, even chuckling. "Right... So you have a Bright Sky Herb, right? We just happened

to have a customer who asked for it specifically. Could you perhaps make time to meet him?"

Mr. Quaker appeared skeptical. "Are you messing with me?"

saying, sir? I may be

I'm making a reservation for a table for 8 PM at Tandem Hotel. See you

then hung up and relayed Mr. Quaker's arrangement to Frank, who whipped out

tip, however. "No, sir-trust matters most when it comes to business. Won't I have to pay you back if your meeting with Mr. Quaker falls through? And you look like an honest man who won't bilk, so my tip can wait until after you seal the

Zangi was

that, since it at

as they both waited that same evening at Tandem Hotel, Zangi was standing restlessly by the door. "Damn that man," he muttered to himself. "Doesn't he have a sense of time? He said 8 PM, but he's still nowhere to be

other hand, Frank was sipping tea calmly. "He's going to come he wants to,

all, he was mediating this deal behind the

smoothly, though it would be terrible for him if Mr. Quaker complained to the

late! I was delayed-had

man in a tunic suit arrived with

not snap, since Mr. Quaker was an important customer to the apothecary, and he still needed the deal with Frank so that he could

"May I ask why