Forbidden Heat novel Chapter 376

“No, actually, I was wondering…if you want to have lunch together with me?” Reiner asked bluntly.

“Lunch…with you?” I repeated questioningly, unable to believe what I had just heard.

Reiner is asking me to have lunch with him? Huh? Why? Why this all of a sudden?

“Yes, lunch with me,” Reiner repeated with his eyes still on my face.

I blinked rapidly as his words started to sink in. Is this really happening?

Honestly, if he had asked me to join him for lunch a few days ago, I would have jumped up and cried for joy. However, I wasn’t sure what I should be feeling now. My feelings were completely messed up. I didn’t feel any happiness at all…I just felt uncomfortable and anxious. Pushing my messy thoughts and feelings aside, I decided to concentrate on the facts. It doesn’t matter why he asked me out, a lunch is just lunch. It’s probably not strange for a boss to invite his subordinate to eat lunch with him.

Don’t read too much into this, Natalia.

“Sure. What would you like to eat? I’ll leave it up to you to choose,” I replied before smiling a little at him.

Just act normal, Natalia.

“My schedule is quite free in the afternoon, so we don’t need to rush. What about Japanese?” Reiner asked casually.

“Sounds good…” I replied smoothly.

I couldn’t care less what we ate. I just hoped that lunch would pass by without any emotionally damaging incident. Reiner opened the door for me, and I walked out of his office into the hallway. I wasn’t sure which restaurant he had in mind, so I let him lead the way after we got out of the elevator. To my surprise, Reiner led me to the parking lot where he had parked his car.

“We need to drive to get there,” he explained before we got into the car.

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Reiner drove us to a part of the business district that I had never been to before. Apart from the area around the office building where we worked at and where my new apartment was located, I haven’t travelled anywhere else in the business district. We arrived at our destination which turned out to be an expensive-looking hotel.