Forbidden Heat novel Chapter 306

“What makes you think that?” I asked, more shock at how he knew rather than how forward his question was.

“It’s pretty obvious. You’re either in love with him or really obsessed with him…” the old man said.

“Well…” I mumbled.

“So, what do you like about Reiner?” the man asked.

“I guess…everything…” I replied after some consideration.

The old man’s eyes widened at my response before he roared with laughter. I watched him in wonder because I didn’t quite understand what it was that he found so funny.

“What’s so funny?” I couldn’t help but ask.

“Well, you ask me to tell you everything about him as if you don’t know anything about him. Yet, you tell me that you love everything about him. You’re a complex paradox, aren’t you?” the old man said while he tried to suppress his laughter.

“Well, we’re not in that type of relationship,” I said softly.

“I wonder. He never brings anyone with him. Let alone a woman…” the old man said as his eyes narrowed at me.

“Don’t get my hopes up. He’s not in love with me,” I said, quickly shutting down my own hopes.

“You seem very trusting,” the old man said observantly.

“Excuse me?” I said, not quite following what he meant by that.

“You trust him and his words…maybe a little too much,” the old man said before winking at me.

“Maybe…” I muttered.

“If you want to be with him…you’re going to have to be very brave,” the man said as he nodded his head.

“What do you mean?” I asked.

“Exactly as I said. Brave…in every sense of the word,” he replied.

In every sense of the word…? While I was taken aback by the old man’s words, my arm was yanked backwards, and I started to lose my balance. I let out a small cry before my back hit something warm and hard.

“What are you doing to her?”

Reiner? I glanced up to see that the hard wall that my body seemed to have bumped against was in fact Reiner’s body. He still held my arm, and I could feel that he was very tense. I thought these two were friends or did I misunderstand something? The air between the two men didn’t seem friendly at all.

“I’m not doing anything. We’re just chit chatting. Is that the word that young people use these days? Chatting…” the old man replied.

Reiner looked at the old man suspiciously before he sighed and loosened his hold on my arm. However, he placed a hand on the small of my back and I knew that he wanted me to stay close to him.

“It’s rare for you to appear in front of people,” Reiner said flatly.

“I’m human too you know, I do like to socialize,” the nameless old man said.

“I don’t happen to recall…” Reiner muttered, clearly unconvinced.