Forbidden Heat novel Chapter 349

When I lifted my head up from the table my headache had subsided and although nothing had changed about the situation, I felt better. That probably meant that I was now more mentally ready to accept it all. I sighed and leaned back on the chair. This chair felt comfortable; this wasn’t bad.

I scrunched up my face when I realized that Queen must have known something about this all along. I mean, there’s no way that she wouldn’t know Reiner’s code name. He’s her only son! I wondered if she planned all this and hoped that she didn’t. I prayed that this was all just a weird twist of fate or an unfortunate coincidence; however, deep down I knew that that probably wasn’t the case. This whole thing was orchestrated by the Queen…

I’m going to have a talk with her when I get back to mansion. It wasn’t like I could call her out on it and blame her directly. I’ve already declared that I will do well in this job right in front of Reiner too, so I couldn’t ask her to pull some strings to have my manager assignment switched. All in all, I’ll just be complaining for the sake of complaining. That’s all.

Although I worried endlessly on how to face him and work with him properly, it turned out that I didn’t get to see Reiner much on my first day at work. Around an hour after I met him, Reiner left his office without an explanation to me.

“Where are you going?” I asked when he walked past my desk.

Now I understood why the desk was located here. It’s so that the secretaries can see their boss walking in and walking out. Reiner can’t enter his office or leave it without me seeing him.

“I have to go out for work. You don’t have to come with me. Just stay here and go home…” he replied and then he was gone.

Well, that concludes my first day of work. My boss is now gone, and I had absolutely nothing to do for the day. I spent the whole day sitting around at my desk as I scrolled through my phone. If I still had my old credit cards, I would have spent so much money on online retail therapy already. Bored and feeling slightly irritated, I started texting Kat. I debated with myself if I should turn up to work at the bar or go home to confront Queen about this mess.

Then again, she might not have anything to do with it at all…

In the end, I decided to go home when the workday ended just like Reiner had told me to. I texted Kat to tell her that I wouldn’t be going in today. Instead, I promised to go in to help her out tomorrow. Work ended at 5PM and that was when I gathered my stuff and left the office. I turned up the radio as I drove back to the mansion. The traffic was terribly heavy, and the ride back took much longer than I had anticipated.

Welcome to the life of an office lady!

As I looked out at the endless traffic up ahead, I prayed that this wasn’t a usual occurrence. I bet that it was though. By the time I got back to the mansion, the sky was almost completely dark. After parking the car, I walked into the mansion to look for Queen. Apart from breaking it to her that ‘somehow’ Reiner ended up as my boss, I thought that I owed it to her to at least tell her how my first day of work went although there wasn’t much to update her on. That was because I didn’t do any work at all today. Period.