Forbidden Heat novel Chapter 346

Not surprisingly, all four new secretaries were all women. I looked around at the excited faces of the other young women and wondered if I had the exact same look on my face.

“Great. We’re all here. Thank you for being on time. Needless to say, as part of the secretarial staff, we are expected to do everything on time. Well now this is the moment that you’ve all been waiting for. Who will be your partner manager? In other words, who’s going to be your boss?” the woman said animatedly.

Her hand then flipped over the board that she was holding to reveal a simple table with two columns that was printed on the other side of the board. The first column was the secretary’s name and the second was the manager’s name.

I wasn’t told anything about this before and so I had no idea and was very surprised when I saw all ‘names’ in the managers’ column were all codenames. Maybe it was my fault for overlooking the details. Since King was also a codename, I should have expected other managers at his company to operate under a codename as well.

Still, what’s the point of knowing just the code name of your boss if you don’t even know who the person is?

I looked at the codename of the manager that was on the same row as my name. So, this guy’s, I assume he’s a guy, codename is Knight. Great. Just like chess pieces. I wondered for a while if that was intentional and soon decided that it probably was.

“Excuse me but…when do we get to meet our boss?” I asked.

I pray that I’ll get along with this Knight person. I’m going to work so hard to please him and make sure that I support him in everyway possible. I’m going the become the best secretary in the world!

“Tomorrow I will personally lead all of you to your manager’s office. So, meet me at the secretarial department at the start of the day and I’ll take you from there. Anyone not sure where the secretarial department is?” the woman asked.

Everyone was silent and the woman smiled with satisfaction and nodded.

That marked the official end of the orientation day and my first day at work.

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During my drive back to the mansion, I began thinking that it might be a good idea to find out something about my future boss. If I knew something about him such as his working style, his personality, his beliefs, and any other relevant facts, it might help us get along well. In addition, I could adapt my working style to fit his or avoid the things that he didn’t like.

After parking my car at the mansion’s parking lot, I entered the mansion and decided to try my luck at finding Queen and asking her. There’s a good chance that Queen might know the identity of Knight, my future boss. If she does, then maybe she could give me a good head start by telling me something about him. Luck seemed to be on my side because Queen was relaxing on a sofa in the sitting room.

“Hey, Queen…” I said as I approached her.

“Natalia. You’re back already? How was your first day at work?” she asked cheerfully.

I sat down on the sofa opposite from hers.

“Great but the real work hasn’t really started yet. Today was just orientation…” I replied honestly.