Forbidden Heat R18 Chapter 396-400

Chapter 396: Reiner – Curious Question
**A week later**

Although it had been decided that Charles would help out on the project, things didn’t work out quite as I had expected. At first, I thought that he would be spending time working with Reiner and me at the office on the project. However, as it turned out, Charles working on the project meant that he would engage in a few calls with Reiner to give advice each week and if required, he would come to meet Reiner in person.

I wasn’t sure if this was the original plan or if this was what Reiner decided afterwards and I had no way of finding out. However, from this arrangement, I had next to no exposure to Charles at all for the project. It wasn’t like I was eager to meet or talk to Charles in the office. After all, I could meet him at the bar or elsewhere if I wanted to. It was just a shame that I couldn’t learn more from him even though he was acting as the expert on our project.

Of course, it would be a suicide mission to voice this concern to Reiner because he definitely would have taken it the wrong way. So, in the end, I just kept this to myself. After that meeting with Charles in the office, Reiner had been in a bitter mood. Although it had been a little over a week since then, his mood showed no signs of improving and I didn’t quite know what to do about it. We continued working together at work, but Reiner spoke to me a lot less and he didn’t seem to enjoy working with me like he did before.

Precisely because of that, I found my work daunting and dealing with him became difficult once again. That didn’t mean that I didn’t try to make things better between us. I tried a couple of things.

“Knight, want to go out for lunch? You don’t have any meetings this afternoon,” I suggested with a beautiful smile.

“I’m a little busy. You should go ahead,” Reiner replied without a second thought.