Reiner - Mastermind


    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 ept it


    all. I sighed and leaned back on the chair. This chair feltfortable; 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


    nned 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


    me her directly. I’ve already dered 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


    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 exnation 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 toe 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


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    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.


    Wee to the life of an officedy!


    As I looked out at the endless traffic up ahead, I prayed that this wasn’t a usual urrence. I bet that it


    was though. By the time I got back to the mansion, the sky was almostpletely 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.


    Whether it was fate or pure coincidence, I didn’t know, but I did bump right into Queen when I entered


    the mansion. She smiled and greeted me in her cheerful voice, and I found myself smiling back while


    wondering if there was something hidden behind her smile. This beautiful woman might turn out to be


    the biggest mastermind of all.


    “How was your day at work? Wait…hold it. Let’s chat over some cakes on the sofa over there!” Queen


    said happily.


    I watched as she walked away quickly into the living room. It was early in the evening but that still


    worked as time to have some cake for Queen. Cake it is, I thought as I followed her into the living


    room. She was already sitting at the sofa with a small te of cake in hand. There was another te of


    cake on the table opposite from where she was sitting. With a graceful gesture of her hand, she invited


    me to take the seat opposite her.


    So much for coincidence and fate. This woman definitely nned everything including the cake.


    “So, tell me…how was your first day at work?” Queen asked eagerly.


    It felt like she wanted me to confirm something that she wanted to hear. I sighed softly.


    “It was surprising, I guess. You see…it turned out that Knight, who’s my new boss, is actually Reiner.


    You know, he’s your son. Reiner is now my boss…” I said as clearly as possible while I watched her


    reaction.


    To my surprise, she pped her hands together and burst outughing as if there was no tomorrow.


    Theughter echoed off the walls and she was almost in tears when she was done. She tried to


    “S-Sorry…how you said that was just so funny!” she eximed beforeughing some more.


    I still honestly couldn’t understand what she found so funny, but I let herugh all she wanted.


    “Why did you tell me that you didn’t know who Knight was when I asked?” I asked while trying to keep


    my tone neutral.


    --To be continued…