
Having more time spent alone with Isabel, apparently made Erich a little more able to get to know the personality of the lover more closely. After visiting the park, the couple again spent the twilight by walking in a shopping center.
Erich happily offers Isabel to buy whatever the girl wants. Jewelry, clothes, or whatever it is. The two walked floor by floor of the building with their hands together. Once past the jewelry store, Erich quickly escorts Isabel's steps and brings the girl closer.
"Gee." It was not Isabel but Erich who was amazed when some of the designs of a set of jewelry caught sight.
"Isabel" said Erich.
"Yes." Yeah." The girl who was right next to Erich's body looked at her lover questioningly. If Erich was amazed when he saw the ornament he liked, but different from Isabel. The girl who used to live a simple life was just staring without interest at the goods that had such exorbitant selling prices.
"Look," pointed Erich at a set of jewels that had previously managed to steal the show. "That piece of jewelry will surely be more beautiful if the one wearing it is you." Erich's gaze, which was originally focused on jewelry, was now staring at Isabel. The corner of the man's lips lifted, imagining how beautiful the lover was as a set of jewels adorned his body.
Isabel responded with a clumsy smile. His pair of eyes were even closed, unable to imagine how expensive the jewelry Erich had just shown was.
"Do you like it?"
Isabel swallows her saliva heavily, especially when Erich asks a worker to get the expensive thing out of place.
"Emm..."
"You like it?" Erich asked while paying closer attention to the object. Without saying much he asked Isabel to try with the help of one of the shop workers.
Isabel could not refuse. Let the worker attach the glittering object to some parts of his body.
"As expected, you're getting prettier when you burn it. Although I know, without any embellishment you are even very beautiful like an angel," praised Erich without taking his eyes off Isabel's face which made the girl blush in embarrassment. Not only Isabel, some shop workers who accidentally heard was then mengulum smile. Of course they also want to be a girl as lucky as Ruby who is so pampered and cared for by her partner.
"Wrap that for my future wife."
"Good, sir." Erich still had time to glance at some ornamentation with a design that again stole his attention. He had offered to Isabel to re-elect but the beautiful girl firmly refused. What Erich chose was more than enough for him. Making the man sigh resigned but still adore the simplicity of the lover that increasingly makes it solidify the heart.
After leaving the jewelry store, Erich brought his lover to buy some famous designer dresses. Not enough with the dress, Erich is still so eager to find casual clothes that if suitable to wear Isabel. As soon as he approached the ranks of evening dresses and women's underwear, Erich stopped his steps.
Isabel slips. He was not even able to stare towards the minimal fabric strands with various models. His face turned away, closed his eyes and walked quickly leaving Erich who did not know his shame had entered the store.
Erich chuckles. Finding Isabel half-running away left her making the man shake his head.
"No, hon. I'm just kidding." Erich nodded his head to the shopkeeper's staff before leaving the place that gave him those goosebumps to chase after Isabel.
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Cafe becomes the next destination for the lovers unwind while filling the stomach. Long enough to go around making both feet ache. Eating and telling stories may be able to release the fatigue that had struck.
Isabel glanced at the several paper bags lying beside Erich's feet. The girl's lips again commented a faint smile as she recalled how cute Erich was that he had no trouble holding so many leather bags that almost filled both hands. Even as he offered to help, Erich firmly refused.
"You're sweating apparently" Erich chuckled softly. He rubbed Isabel's sweaty forehead with a handkerchief. Although in the Ac room, the girl's sweat was still left when a while ago tired of walking around.
"Today I feel very happy." The girl smiled at Erich. Getting attention and being someone who cared for made happiness overflow in Isabella. If he was still living with Arum, of course he would not even dare to dream of living properly like this. Loved by a near-perfect man, it may just be a mere sleeping flower.
Isabel breathed deeply. He again remembered the figure of Arum who now even lived his days in a mental hospital.
Ernest, who was sipping a drink he ordered, listened carefully to the words spoken by the lover. Apparently the girl thought back to Arum, Erich thought.
"Obsession and greed are definitely the biggest triggers. He is not ready to lose, until he unconsciously has to pay for his actions with his body's soul."
Isabel allowed. Perhaps this is the fruit of what Arum once planted. If his stepmother was not as subtle and grim as it might be this kind of tempest would never have happened.
The two talked while enjoying the food ordered.
"Honestly, I really hated Arum's mother when she deliberately walked in and became the third person in my parents' marriage. He's willing to be the second person to want to master Dad's treasure."
Erich is still a loyal listener to Isabel. All grievances and outpouring of heart must be able to accommodate the man with pleasure.
"As a woman, I also scammed Dad for his disloyalty. So even here I don't completely blame Arum's mother because Dad has a big role in the affair." Trauma can haunt Isabel in building a relationship when the people closest to her proved betrayed. Praja and Steven are the two closest men who actually incised the deepest wound in his heart.
"I understand, but I don't think we can equate everyone who enters into another's household as a destroyer."
Isabel must have gasped. Ernest's reply was so incompatible with his expectations. Is he a man who can think that?.
"What does brother mean?" This certainly creates a big question mark on Isabel.
"Do you see how my parents' married life is?"
Isabel then nodded. Although only a few times met but from the view alone he could see as harmonious and romantic as to what the middle-aged couple.
"Then, what can you see from my parents' marriage relationship."
"They're a couple who love each other." Maybe that could cover the whole picture of what Erich's been happy about all this time.
"Then, did you ever think that my mother also had the same status as Arum, your stepmother, honey?"
The beautiful girl only knitted a pair of eyebrows. Apparently do not understand the words of the lover.
"Sister mean?"
"Yes, Mom is Dad's second wife. But it was my first wife who asked Mom to be willing to be my honey sister."
Isabel swallowed her saliva heavily. He lowered his head, wrong.
Did ya?
It's beyond a doubt. Why do they seem to have almost the same way of life.
"Then I say that we cannot equalize every third person who enters into a marriage relationship as a destroyer. It could be that they came by being invited or there are other reasons that inevitably drag the third person to enter."
Isabel did not respond. His brain was still filled with shocking facts from Erich's parents that he had never expected.
Tbc.