Lahat ng Kabanata ng Forbidden Heat: Kabanata 351 - Kabanata 360

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 th

In the end, I decided not to say what was on my mind. It wasn’t because I was afraid to hear his response, but it was because I already knew what he would say, and I just didn’t want him to tell me to go home again. “I’m very sorry. Please enjoy your meal…” I said politely as I kept my eyes down and my head hung low. I turned and left the room before he could say anything. There was nothing for me to do in the afternoon, so I killed some more time helping out with random tasks at the secretarial office. Maybe if things continue this way, I’ll just become a general clerk without a manager as my boss which wasn’t at all too bad. By the time that the workday was over, I was too depressed to stay another minute in the office building. Thankfully, I had work at the bar tonight. Talking to Kat and just working would probably make me feel better. After grabbing my stuff, I was on my way to the bar. Just getting in the car eased my stress considerably. There was nothing wrong with the job

The next morning, I woke up with renewed motivation thanks to Charles’ words. I got up early and prepared everything well with the target to do well at work today. I’ll get along with Reiner and I’ll find a way to be of use to him no matter what. Charles gave me confidence and I knew that I had to get my act together before I start to lose my confidence once again. He was right, it was too soon for me to give up on anything. Today will be the day that I turn over a new leaf! I opened the door of my room with a loud and proud bang. So much for my dramatic entrance, the only thing that greeted me outside of my room was the empty and long hallway. Laughing a little at my own silliness, I made my way to the staircase so that I could head to the first floor. When I walked past the living room, Queen called out to me. “Natalia!” I turned around when I heard her call my name. Once again, I thought it was weird that Queen was up so early in the morning. I smiled at her and waved my hand. K

In this day and age that most things were electronic and no longer paper-based, it was surprising to see so many documents gather and well arranged all in one place. I bet whatever Reiner was looking for must be quite old. Perhaps it was some documents from the time when computers and everything digital wasn’t popular yet. “Excuse me. I’m Knight’s secretary. He told me that you have some documents for him…” I said to the muscular old man who was seated behind a counter. The old man peered at me through his thick-lens glasses as he squinted his eyes. I wondered if it was a requirement to be this muscular to guard an archive. I smiled at him a little nervously as he continued to stare at my face. Finally, he seemed satisfied enough and nodded at me in acknowledgement. Without saying a word to me, he slowly got up from his seat and waved his hand at me for me to follow after him. He led me a little further into the archive and the smell of old paper and books filled my nostrils. It wa

Reiner seemed deep in thought for a brief moment before he sighed loudly. “That’s what I’ve figured out as well. The harder part is how to solve it,” Reiner muttered as he frowned as if deep in thought. “Something like making sure that people are put into the right teams with other people that are compatible to them?” I suggested, based on what Charles had told me. “Not bad. And how should we start doing that?” Reiner asked as he looked pointedly at me. “Umm…the agent’s profile?” I guessed. “Correct,” Reiner said as he turned to gesture to the large pile of document with a swipe of his hand.Great. We’re going to have to go through that?!“Isn’t there like an electronic form for the agent’s profile. I mean, in this digital day and age…” I asked, hopefully. It would be faster if we have everything in digital form, then processing the data, finding trends, or arranging everything would just be so much easier. Reiner shook his head at me with a regretful look on his face. My mouth