**Dark Academia---Gabriel Saban**
"If that's the case, then I will step back."
Ember tilted her head to the winner. "Do you agree that we choose an independent dealer? Anyone from the crowd will do."
The man conveniently wiped off the initial curiosity etched to his expression while he smirked. "It seems you suspect me to have been cheating all these while with the dealer nonetheless?"
Ember scoffed with all the brusqueness she hoped a scoundrel would use. "It appears to me your guilty mind is speaking already." She drawled.
He chuckled. "Fine. If the others agree, then you may choose our dealer."
Lorayne nodded with a smirk, while Aeron leaned back amusedly, nodding his consent as well. Although Ember was yet to understand the man's endgame by dragging her into the Nirvana for so-called fun.
No matter how much she thought about it, she could swear he had a motive.
