"Do I look like I'm joking in your eyes?" Rainer asked back.
"Um," Gaea could clearly see the seriousness on Rainer's expression, but living together was so abstract, "I don't want to!"
"Don't be selfish, it's for your good," said Rainer, "your safety now is so much more important," he added before Gaea could reply.
"But ..." Gaea still couldn't accept it.
"You know Ava and Lola are on vacation overseas," Rainer said, softening his voice a little to make it more convincing, "Eryk and I won't leave you alone. Too risky."
Gaea was speechless, she didn't deny that she was touched by Rainer and Eryk's decision, it's just that living with them with her is just a woman here that makes her heart uncomfortable.
'I've even read interview magazines that Eryk likes shirtless in his house.'
Gaea had seen Eryk shirtless but that too in a magazine did not know what it would be like to see with her own eyes Eryk's body, every day too. Eryk has a great body because he likes going to the gym too.
"You live here. Period," said Rainer, "if you want to protest, protest at Eryk, not me."
"Really?" Gaea could hardly believe it, she was sure Rainer was part of it too, he said earlier: me and Eryk.
Rainer tried to hold himself calm. "I don't know what you said," he said, "enough arguing."
Gaea was about to protest, but Rainer had already left the house.
'Why is he like Eryk?'
"I think that's a great idea, Miss Gaea," said Sebastian.
"Huh?" Gaea was a little surprised, forgetting Sebastian's presence. Now she was a little disappointed that he didn't say a word to defend her, or was he the type of servant who didn't like to get involved in his master's business? "why do you think like that?"
"This house may look lonely, but it's as well-secured as Mr Eryk's penthouse—"
"Wait," Gaea interrupted, "you said penthouse?"
Sebastian nodded, "Mr Eryk lives there a lot because it's in the middle of Manhattan. I thought you two lived together?"
Gaea did not move. What she has to say? She just found out that Eryk has a penthouse in the middle of town this morning, "Sorry, we didn't live together. I just found out that he has a penthouse, I rented an apartment with Lola and Ava."
"Is that so?" Sebastian was a little surprised, "I'm sorry, Miss Gaea."
Gaea shook her head. "There's nothing to be forgiven for."
"I thought you two were living together considering Mr Eryk once let Miss Katherine live there," said Sebastian.
"Katherine?" An unfamiliar name that Gaea had never heard of, "Who is he?"
"Sorry," Sebastian realized what he was saying too much, his eyes glancing doubtfully at Gaea, "I shouldn't have brought up Miss Katherine."
Sebastian's avoidance of explaining about Katherine makes Gaea even more curious. Come to think of it, Katherine is a feminine name for a boy, it must be a girl, and Katherine lives in the penthouse with Eryk.
Gaea was sure that with this hint, Katherine must be special to Eryk.
'Of course, a man like Eryk must have a girlfriend.'
Gaea's feelings were mixed now.
If it was true what she thought that Katherine was Eryk's girlfriend, she could not imagine how devastated Katherine would feel when she found out that Eryk proposed to another woman in a crowded place.
But why is it that until now Gaea still hasn't heard or been visited by Katherine? She believes Katherine must have seen Eryk's proposal go viral on social media unless something is holding her back.
Maybe Katherine was in a big fight with Eryk or something?
Gaea clenched her fists against her chest which was starting to feel tight.
Now it all makes sense, what Eryk said while proposing to her at the airport may not have been a spontaneous remark, but it was originally meant for Katherine.
"My head hurts," Gaea sighed softly.
"I'm sorry, Miss Gaea," regretted Sebastian, "sometimes I like to talk without thinking."
"No," said Gaea, "it's not your fault Sebastian. I'm just so sorry ..."
Sebastian was confused, "Why? Miss Gaea, don't think too much about the past, the most important thing now is how you both feel."