For me I like it. I think we just need further chapters to understand more about Eric. He might be 'using' Petra but for someone who's really knowledgeable like her, it's a win to have a platform for her to shine so it's kind if a win win situation for both of them. But I'm really interested about Petra's career more and how can she gagged the patriarch haha
Don't worry they already confessed to each other in ch9