“Why did you marry me in the first place?" she asked.
Prior to their engagement, Erica asked Matthew why he wanted to marry her. And he said it was to fulfill a request from his father.
Unconvinced, she asked him again after they got married, to which he answered, "I wanted to do everyone else a favor and prevent you from causing trouble to another person."
Now, five years Later, she was asking him the same question once more.
This time, he replied, “Because I Love you."
With her arms around her legs, Erica buried her head into her knees as she cried and Laughed like a fool.
After that, the two kept on the Line until Matthew got on the plane and was forced to say goodbye.
"Rika, wait for me."
However, before turning off his phone for the trip, he made one last call to Paige.
"Find my wife. You'll keep track of her from now on."
Even though Erica promised him she would wait for him, he still feared that the silly girl would suddenly take off to a remote place to die on her own.
"Yes, Matthew," said Paige.
As the hours passed, Erica was still sitting by the river in a daze.
Her phone rang several times, but she didn't seem to hear it.
She also didn't drink or eat anything from afternoon to dusk, and then from dusk to night...
"Rika!" a familiar male voice called from behind her.
At his call, Erica woke from her daze as she turned around.
Not so far away, stood a man in a dark suit and a long black overcoat.
That man was none other than Matthew.
Erica dissolved into tears. The pent up emotions in her heart seemed to find an outlet. Erica threw herself into her husband's arms and cried bitterly.
Matthew took off his overcoat and wrapped it around her. He inhaled her scent and kissed her long hair gently.
“Honey, don’t cry," he said, trying to comfort her.
“You won't die without my permission!
If the King of Hell wants you, he'll have to defeat me first!' Matthew thought to himself.
Erica didn't say anything and kept crying.