Chapter 88: What a Coincidence
"Hm?"
Freshly showered and dressed in clean clothes, Elias sat cross-legged on his bed and stared at the latest favorability update for Yvonne Quinn as if it might explain itself if he looked long enough.
What exactly had happened?
All he had done was send a message through her assistant, asking whether she was free and whether she wanted to grab a meal with him. That was it. He had not cornered her, had not performed, had not even gotten in front of her face. Yet her favorability had gone up anyway.
Could it really be that no one had ever invited her out like that before? Was he the first person to ask Yvonne Quinn to dinner, and had that alone been enough to move her?
His instincts as a top-tier employee told him the truth was probably not that simple. Women like her rarely gave away increases for no reason. Even kindness usually came with structure underneath it, especially in this rotten world.
