章 173: The art of making a deal

"How could I gain favor with someone I never ever saw in the first place?" the officer shouted in a baffled voice. 

She reacted as if what Mia just said was outright ridiculous and stupid. 

'I got you,' Mia thought, pretending not to notice what her eyes just tracked.

And it was dissatisfaction. 

The officer didn't manage to hide the small twitch of the corner of her mouth, natural instinct to share how unhappy she was with Mia's question. 

Because that question, of whom would this favor be with, forced the officer to come clean and abandon all the ideas of exploiting Arthur later for the few coins worth of discount that she just offered. 

"So you can rightfully claim to have done me a solid," Mia changed the wording of her sentence. Using the previous format on her question, the officer would nearly deprive herself of any gratitude, making the deal that she offered extremely unfavorable.