Forbidden Heat novel Chapter 375

The door closed behind me with a small thud as my body froze in place and my face felt numb.

“Good…morning…” I replied softly after regaining my composure.

That was all I could come up with to say to him. Why was Reiner standing here in front of my door?

“Good morning, Natalia. Are you going to work today?” Reiner asked flatly.

Is that another way of asking me why I wasn’t at work yesterday? I took in a deep breath and stood up a little straighter.

“Yes, of course. Umm…thank you for waiting for me. Shall we?” I said as I tried to act natural.

I didn’t wait for Reiner to say anything in response before walking past him along the hallway that would lead us to the stairs. My mind screamed all the way to the stairs as I wondered why he had to appear in front of my bedroom like that. Honestly, I wasn’t planning on avoiding him or anything. I had work to do, and I was going to do it.

Act natural, Natalia.

I repeated this to myself with every breath that I took until we got into the car together. Needless to say, the atmosphere in the car was tense. Reiner obviously wanted to know why I didn’t turn up to work yesterday and that question just hung in the air between us throughout the whole ride. He didn’t voice the question and even if he did, I wasn’t sure if I could answer it directly and honestly. How does ‘I quickly hunted for a place so that I could move out of your mansion as soon as possible’ sound?

Unlike the days before, I didn’t bother to make conversation with him in the car. The now-familiar scenery on the way to the office past by in front of my eyes in a haze as I stared out the car’s window. I’ll talk to him like normal when we get to the office. We’ll talk about work and that would be it.

We arrived at work, and I quickly got out of the car. Wordlessly, we ascended the elevator together to his office. As we stepped out of the elevator together, I was already piecing together what I would say to him when we arrived at his office.

“I left a short list of agents for you to review. Have you seen it?” I asked once we arrived in his personal office.

Reiner sat down behind his table before he nodded at me. He took out what I recognized as the papers that I had printed for him.

“I see. I narrowed down the agent list to those that may have lost a member of their team during a mission because of incompatibility issues. Of course, we don’t know that for sure yet. However, I think that it’ll be worth your time to talk to them one by one,” I explained.

“I see. Let’s do that. If you send this to the secretarial department, they can help you schedule meetings with these agents,” Reiner replied calmly.