Stealing Your Heart (Lin Xinyan) novel Chapter 176

Stealing Your Heart Chapter 176

“First time?”

A masculine voice lingered near the ears. It sounded casual, yet urgent.

The man paused for a moment. The warm chest on her back seemed like it was going to overheat. His cool lips kissed on her skin in quick moves. It was obvious that he wanted this woman now, but he was holding himself back. “You can still stop now before you regret this.”

“I’m not going to.”

The moment she finished her words, the man behind her held onto her waist and pressed onto her on the bed. In the dark, she could not see his face. She only knew that the man was impatient and his body was boiling hot. It was there that magic was on his hands. Every spot of her skin that he touched felt like it was on fire.

She was afraid and she was nervous. She wanted to push him away but when she thought about her mother and brother in the hospital, she grabbed onto the bedsheet under her instead.

Suddenly, it was as if her body was torn apart. It was painful, physically and mentally. To stop herself from moaning shamefully under the man, she bit her lips and kept quiet.

The man was strong and there were a few times that she could not take it and wanted to push him away.

“No—”

Suddenly, Lin Xinyan woke up from her nightmare. Her eyes were widened and her eyes looked around the room before landing on a man’s eyes.

She was shocked.

She jerked into a sitting position and she sounded incoherent as she said, “Who— Who— Who are you?”

“Shouldn’t I be the one asking this?” The man’s voice was low. He had neat short hair, a pair of brown eyes and a beautiful smile. He stared at the tear tracks on Lin Xinyan’s face. “Did you have a nightmare?”

Lin Xinyan grabbed onto the blanket. It was an understatement to say that it was a nightmare.

She had not dreamt about that night for many years. The dream had been so realistic. It was everything she never wanted to recall. To have dreamt about it felt like someone had roughly tore away the blood clot on her old wound.

“You saved me?” She remembered suffocating in the water and losing her consciousness. She had no idea what happened afterwards.

“Yes. To be more accurate, I asked someone to save you.” The man held a faint smile on his face.

Yet it did not seem like a joyous smile.

It was only now then did Lin Xinyan realize that the man was in a wheelchair. He was wearing simple clothes and there was a blanket covering his legs.

The man’s gaze on Lin Xinyan deepened. He did not see disgust in her eyes, only shock, and that made him feel relaxed.

“I was coming home last night and saw a person jumping into the river. So I asked someone to save you.” The man’s voice was gentle. “Is someone trying to hurt you?”

If he had seen her jump into the river, he had also seen someone chasing after her.

Lin Xinyan did not reply to him. She shrunk into herself and frowned when she realized her foot was in pain.

The man sensed that Lin Xinyan was wary of him. He understood her wariness; after all, they were strangers. He did not insist on the question. “Don’t worry, you won’t be found by him here. The injury on your leg has been seen by a doctor. You’ll be needing a long rest.”

Lin Xinyan knew that her leg was injured. She was surprised that he had gotten someone to take a look at it. “Thank you.”

“No need to thank me. It’s normal for someone to help a person in need. Even if it was someone else that night, I’m sure they would do the same… After all, they’ll be saving a beauty.”

The man deliberately paused before teasing her.

Lin Xinyan knew that he was teasing her, but he was her savior, so she said nothing even if she had not liked his words.

“What is this place? Can I borrow your phone?” Now that she had escaped from He Ruize’s grasps, she wanted to call Lin Xichen to tell him that she was safe. She did not know how Lin Xichen and Lin Ruixi were in the few days that she was missing.

The man’s gaze landed on Lin Xinyan’s wrist. On her thin wrist was a jade bangle. This bangle… He looked away and rejected her. “No. She’ll be taking care of you from now on. If you need anything you can tell her.”

He started to wheel out of the room. When he reached the door, he paused and turned to her. “What’s your name?”

Lin Xinyan widened her eyes and said untruthfully, “Lin Yan.”