Forbidden Heat novel Chapter 351

Since I knew that sitting here wasn’t going to give me any answers, I decided to ask the man himself. I knocked on his door until he told me to ‘come in’. Reiner was sitting behind his desk when I entered his office.

“Umm…is there anything that I can help you out with today?” I asked as I stood in front of his desk.

“No,” Reiner replied without looking up from the document that he was reading.

He seemed busy enough. Was there really nothing that I could help him out with?

“How about some coffee…or tea?” I offered hesitantly.

Or me?

Ok, that’s an old joke that’s not funny in this situation. It wasn’t like I could play that joke on Reiner. I sighed at how useless I apparently was.

“Coffee…” he said without looking my way.

“Ok. Please wait a moment,” I replied enthusiastically.

The first task that my new boss gave to me was to make coffee. It wasn’t the most challenging job in the world, but I was glad to have something to do. I hoped that he would give me some real work after this though. I headed to the pantry to make him a cup of coffee.

I stood in front of the coffee machine without a clue of what to do. Of course, I knew pretty much how to use the machine to make coffee. The real issue was, I had just realized that I didn’t know how Reiner liked his coffee and I was so happy that he gave me a task that I forgot to ask. Would I look like a complete food if I went back to ask him for his preference now? Probably. He’s also busy working so that was probably a bad idea.

After debating various options with myself, I decided to go with making expresso. Plain and black. While I waited for the machine to do its job, I started feeling slightly depressed. I was already aware that I knew very little about Reiner, but this reminder was a harsh blow. Unlike how Reiner knew so much about me and my preferences, I didn’t know anything about his at all.

Placing the cup of coffee on a small tray, I made my way back to his office. If I didn’t know anything about his preferences, now was the perfect time to start finding out and studying up on that. I’m his secretary now so it was the perfect opportunity to get to know Reiner. That is if he’s even willing to open up himself to me…even if just a little…