His mouth gaped a millimeter.
“What?”
“Do you have father issues?”
“What? No. My dad’s great, jeez.”
His mouth still hadn’t closed that tiny gap. “You like old men.”
I bit both my lips, eyes wide. I was sure my nose flared a little bit. How close to the truth he was, and it almost made me laugh. Instead, I shrugged. “I wouldn’t sayold,merely… mature?”
Kulti stared at me for so long I started laughing.
“Stop looking at me like that. I don’t think I’ve ever been attracted to guys my own age. When I was younger…”I’dbeeninlovewithyou, I thought but didn’t say out loud. “I thought they were dumb, and then it just stuck,” I explained.
He still didn’t say a word.
“Quit it. Everyone has a type. I’m sure you do.”
Kulti blinked. “I’m not attracted to senior citizens.”
I rolled my eyes. “Okay, fine. You don’t like older men or women.”
He ignored my jab at him being attracted to men. “I don’t have a type,” he said slowly.
Yes, he did, and I knew exactly what it was. “Everyone is attracted to certain things, even you.”
Those hazel-green eyes blinked at the speed of a moving glacier. “You want to know what I’m attracted to?”
I was thirty seconds too late to realize that I didn’t want to know after all. Did I want to hear him spout off prerequisites I didn’t fit? No. Hell no. While I completely understood his place in my life, that didn’t mean I wanted to be the antithesis of Reiner Kulti’s dreams. My pride could only handle so much.
But it wasn’t like I could back down by that point. Gritting my teeth, I nodded. “Go for it since you think I’m such a weirdo.”
“I like legs.” Legs? “And?”
His eyes narrowed just barely. “Confidence.”
“Okay.”
“Nice teeth.”
Hmm.
“A beautiful face.”
My eyelid may have started twitching.
“Someone who makes me laugh.”
The twitching went into overdrive. “Are you making stuff up?” Because, really? Kulti laughing? Ha.
“Is there something wrong with my list?” he asked with a stony, even glare.
“There wouldn’t be anything wrong with it if you weren’t randomly blurting stuff out. Someone who makes you laugh? I feel like you’re going to start describing a unicorn after that.”
He prodded at the inside of his cheek with his tongue. “Just because I’m not attracted to women old enough to remember the last Great War, doesn’t mean my list is made up,” Kulti said.
Oh my God. That made me burst out laughing. “You make it sound like I hit up retirement homes for dates. Those men are probably only a couple years older than you are, so think about that, creaky knees.”
