For a rare moment, Aaron Xavier pondered what qualities he possessed that might make Zoe Pierce see him in a special light.
Designing mecha clearly wasn't his forte.
It would have been better not to think about it at all. The more he did, the more frustrated he became.
He couldn't think of a single impressive skill. He'd always been a free spirit, unlike Nathan Lockwood and the others, who had learned all the things expected of high society.
And now, he couldn't come up with a single decent talent to capture Zoe Pierce's attention.
He fell silent.
Meanwhile, Nathan Lockwood, standing beside him, was also mulling over what to get Zoe Pierce.
Chase Shaw's gift of a mecha played to his strengths.
'But Zoe must need *something*,' he thought. His gaze unconsciously drifted to her ear, which had just cooled from a recent flush, when he suddenly noticed a small piercing.
No matter how she kept pace with them on missions, at the end of the day, she was still a young woman.
