"Haha, Nate, you're amazing. You made her this happy with a fifty-cent trinket."
'To think that last night, Old Man Goodman had to give up a gold watch just to get the little girl to call him Grandpa.'
After they played with the child for a bit, Nate finally got down to business. "You said yesterday you'd help me win over Howard. So, what's the plan?"
"I have a whole playbook for this. First, you need to constantly be on his radar. Make your presence a habit for him, one he can't break. Then, when the time is right, you disappear on him. Let him feel the pain of losing you. Only after you reappear and he gets you back will he learn to truly cherish you."
"Sounds like a good plan. Is that the playbook you used to land Mr. Sinclair?"
"Guess."
While the two women were sharing secrets, the men were having a private conversation of their own.
"Yuri, since Nate's involved in this now, I have a favor to ask."
