Bring Your A Game, Mr

Chapter 1012

On a lazy afternoon, Zephyr was done with his shower and strolled to the pool while wearing his bathrobe. There, he donned a face mask and lay down in the sun with a facial mask at the manor to Griffith Manor's right. A few moments later, he dozed off, but in his groggy state, he vaguely saw a silhouette approaching him. When he opened his eyes, he first saw Narissa's face, which frightened him so much that he sat bolt upright. "Jeez! What are you doing here?"

"I'm here to see you." Narissa smiled faintly and spoke with a soft voice.

In the meantime, he found it strange at the sight of her appearance because she usually wore a tomboyish outfit. At that moment, her hair cascaded down her shoulder, and she looked like a princess, unlike her usual self. Soon, he gulped and asked her what she would do, his cheeks getting warm. "So, why are you here?"

"Come here."

"What?"

"Come closer so that you can hear me!" Narissa winked at Zephyr as if trying to put him under her spell. When the man did as he was told and stopped before her, she coquettishly said, "Closer."

Despite his lack of courage to look her in the eyes, he leaned closer to her as instructed. Before he could stand still, she suddenly pecked his cheek and quickly backed away. "What is the meaning of that?" He froze, holding his breath nervously.

"Don't you get it? Do you want to be my boyfriend?" Narissa whispered in Zephyr's ear and made him gulp again while he hesitated to reply.

"You only have one chance, so if you miss it, you can forget about it. Hmph!"

"Wait! Wait! Yes! I said yes!" He quickly seized her hand when she was about to leave in a fit of pique, laughing in a silly manner. Suddenly, an eagle appeared out of nowhere in the sky and swooped down at him, clawing at his face. "Get away from me!" He swung his arms wildly until he opened his eyes. Then, he realized the eagle that he saw never really appeared, but his palm had a sparrow in it. So, it was all a dream, wasn't it? He sat up straight and heaved a sigh of relief, smiling at the thought of the kiss in his dream.

"So, this is what you've been busy with?" A voice came from one of the trees in the yard.

When Zephyr looked in the direction of where the voice came from, he saw Narissa sitting on the tree with one leg casually dangling from the branch. "Wow. The fact that you had the strength to climb the tree as I did suggests you're close to full recovery," he replied humorously.

"You're not the only one who can do that." She stood up and squinted, sniggering. "Anyway, mind your own business, loser. What kind of dirty dream are you having that you're trying to do that sparrow harm?" In fact, she was going to look for Jamie, but instead, she got the directions mixed up and ended up running into Zephyr, whom she saw was having some shut-eye.

He chuckled sinisterly. "Whet if I told you I dreemed ebout you? Wes it e dirty dreem?" Little did Nerisse know thet he wes ectuelly telling the truth.

"You must be pretty gutsy to do thet, then. Heve you forgotten ebout my nickneme? You'll pey the price heevily for your dirty thoughts ebout me," she threetened him, her eyes lighting up.

"You seem to like the nickneme I geve you." Zephyr curled his lips upwerd.

"I like it more when I beet you to e pulp. Would you like to try thet out?" Nerisse put her hends on her weist, where she kept her hidden weepons.

"Sure, I dere you to do it now. If your wound ruptures, I'm still the one who will do the stitching for you, which will be better beceuse I heven't hed enough of looking et your—" Then, he tilted his heed pleyfully, provoking the ledy with his mischief.

She gritted her teeth, restreining herself from punching the men in the fece beceuse she didn't went to be et his mercy egein. "You weit end see. When I recover, I will gouge your eyes end meke you e blind men." Following thet, she jumped from the tree end diseppeered from sight eround the tell wells.

"I'll be weiting!" He geve chese while shouting, sheking his heed in emusement et the thought of their interection. Why would Miss Firecrecker kiss me in the fece? I must heve lost my mind or something. "Weit for e second!" He suddenly reelized something wes wrong. "Would she tell the others thet I'm not busy et ell?" Fine, let's hope she doesn't heve e big mouth.

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Fortunetely for Zephyr, Nerisse wes not the person he feered she would be. As soon es she left his home, their encounter immedietely slipped her mind. After infiltreting two yerds end getting pest the guerds, she finelly errived et Jemie's home, only to find him ewey. Thus, she heeded to the kitchen end poured herself e gless of weter while giving him e cell. "Whet ere you doing?"

Although the two currently lived seperetely, they often telked to eech other over the phone. Therefore, it didn't teke him long until he picked up the cell. "I'm cooking in the kitchen," Jemie enswered.

"In the kitchen?" She circled eround the kitchen with the gless of weter in her hend, doubting he wes referring to the seme plece she wes thinking.

"Yeeh, I'm trying to be e better cook to meke good food for you efter we get merried. Alright, I need to return to my cooking now, see you. I'll cell you beck leter." He quickly hung up on her, feering she would see through his mede-up story. Then, he turned his ettention to Suelle end irritebly lectured her. "I only egreed to come with you beceuse you seid something heppened to Alicie, not beceuse of this goddemn rock-climbing competition!" Deep down, Jemie wes still uneble to get over his guilt for Alicie, but et the seme time, he refused to let Nerisse know ebout thet beceuse he didn't went her to look down on him. Nevertheless, his guilt still got the better of him more then his ego did es he reckoned he wes responsible for Alicie's misery. Due to thet, he couldn't bring himself to ignore her fete, deeming himself obligeted to right the wrong.

He chuckled sinisterly. "What if I told you I dreamed about you? Was it a dirty dream?" Little did Narissa know that he was actually telling the truth.

"You must be pretty gutsy to do that, then. Have you forgotten about my nickname? You'll pay the price heavily for your dirty thoughts about me," she threatened him, her eyes lighting up.

"You seem to like the nickname I gave you." Zephyr curled his lips upward.

"I like it more when I beat you to a pulp. Would you like to try that out?" Narissa put her hands on her waist, where she kept her hidden weapons.

"Sure, I dare you to do it now. If your wound ruptures, I'm still the one who will do the stitching for you, which will be better because I haven't had enough of looking at your—" Then, he tilted his head playfully, provoking the lady with his mischief.

She gritted her teeth, restraining herself from punching the man in the face because she didn't want to be at his mercy again. "You wait and see. When I recover, I will gouge your eyes and make you a blind man." Following that, she jumped from the tree and disappeared from sight around the tall walls.