After touring the house, Ariel and Dylan settled in the sitting room, sitting opposite each other, with Dylan's lawyer between them.

A maid dressed in a unique maid outfit stood in front of the sitting room desk, pouring hot coffee for them. She soon finished and handed over a cup to Ariel and another to Dylan, without raising her head even once.

Dylan's lawyer, a man with a receding hairline, took out a stack of papers and placed it on the table, sliding it down to Ariel.

"My name is Archibald Weiss. I'm Dylan Grey's lawyer and have been so for five years now," he said to Ariel.

"I'm Ariel,"...