Forbidden Heat novel Chapter 29

“You with Reiner? I chose him to guard you. He will keep you safe from any random men. See you at the lab.” Edward. So, this is what he had planned all along? Using Reiner to keep tabs on me when I’m not with him. What a heavy price to pay for my lies.

“Yes,” I replied to his text simply.

Now back to Reiner. What should I talk about?

“Reiner, your full butler uniform is a little bit much. Starting tomorrow can you dress perhaps a bit more casually to blend in better?” I suggested. Afterall, it’s not like I want the whole world to know that I have a butler shadowing me everywhere.

“Sure, I’ll wear a suit starting tomorrow, Miss Natalia” He replied, acknowledging my words as his command.

“I mean, it doesn’t need to be a suit every day. You can adjust your outfit to sort of match what we’ll be doing based on my schedule. Oh, and please just call me Natalia,” I told him as I turned to look at his face for the first time since we left Lucien’s study. His serious face as he watched the road is quite attractive…

“As you wish,” Reiner replied shortly.

That was the end of that. In the end, we didn’t exchange any more words between us the whole ride to the lab.

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**A week before**

A very tall man with a large build, bright red hair and piecing blue eyes stood in the middle of Edward’s office.

“Good to see you again, Reiner,” Edward greeted the tall figure standing straight in the middle of his office.

“Yo, Sir Edward…How’s the girl?” Reiner turned around to greet Edward mockingly.

“That ‘girl’ would be ‘Miss Natalia’ if not ‘Lady Natalia’ now for you,” Edward corrected the man jokingly.

“That scrawny girl is all grown up now huh? I haven’t seen her for ten years,” Reiner said wistfully as he thought of the first time that he met Natalia, before she was adopted into the Rosenhall family as Lucien’s daughter.

“So, what do you have to tell me? You schemed to position me as her bodyguard and called me over here for something, right?” Reiner asked, getting straight to the point.

“Natalia has at least one lover. I want you to keep an eye on her and figure out who he is,” Edward started to explain.

“You mean including yourself?” Reiner asked rhetorically.

Edward’s mood darkened immediately. Reiner and his intuition are scary.

“Guess I hit the bull’s eye. You were pretty obsessed with her after that incident,” Reiner said while grinning at Edward.

“I want you to keep her safe. Natalia has come of age and I honestly don’t know what plans the elders have for her or what harm lies in her way,” Edward continued to explain.

“What do you plan to do with her? You’re not just using her as a bed warmer like all those other women of yours, right?” Reiner asked with genuine curiosity. Edward is famous for his numerous affairs that were some times even featured in tabloids.