"Then don't think of it that way. Think of it as me paying to live with you. After all, I can't live rent-free in a house that doesn't belong to me, right?"

She narrowed her eyes at my cheeky words.

I smirked and continued, "I'll call in an interior designer in on Monday for you and tell them to charge everything to my account, so you can decorate the place to your heart's content."

"Achilles! You can't just do things like that. I don't want people to think I'm using you ...