Chapter 85

"W-what are you trying to say?" I feigned laughing, but the uneasiness was still there. I couldn't look Turstin in the eyes since I knew he was peering at me as well. I was perspiring tremendously. I know his expression is full of curiosity now about what the woman said, so I shut off that thinking by responding to what the woman said in order to refute it. "I guess I just ate too much and now I have a huge stomach," I joke, knowing it's too late for it because Turstin wraps his hand around my stomach and grips my belly as if he was feeling the inside of it.

"Is that so? I apologize, and I like condemning topics about which I am unsure." She rubbed the back of her neck, as if ashamed by what she said, and while I grinned and just squeezed Tustin's hand to remove it from my stomach. He seemed to be becoming overly at ease.

When the old lady departed, I waited for her to come down before pushing Turstin out as well. When I was g