It was strange but doing things like we usually do like driving to work together and spending time at the office, calmed me down immensely. I wasn’t sure what life would be like after I married Reiner so a part of me was relieved to experience that life didn’t necessarily have to change dramatically.
I wondered if the company had any policies prohibiting spouses from working together but I wasn’t sure whether I should ask or not. It went without saying that I didn’t want to be separated from Reiner even if it was at work. Although it was selfish and very unprofessional of me, I didn’t want to be anyone else’s secretary but his.
“Can you help out with this one too? I’ll send you the file,” Reiner asked with a smile.
“Sure. I’d be happy to,” I replied enthusiastically.
The project that we had been working on together was making smooth progress. One of the main reasons why Reiner probably didn’t want to miss work was because we had an important deadline coming up as part of this project. Next Friday, we were scheduled to present the proposal of our solution and plan to King. Based on what King thought, our project would either go ahead or it would be scrapped completely. Just thinking about it made me feel nervous and a loud sigh escaped my lips.
“Why are you sighing like that?” Reiner asked from where he was seated at his table.
“I’m a little worried about the meeting with King next week…” I admitted honestly.
King seemed like a man that would be hard to please. He probably had very high standards on top of being very strict. What made me the most nervous was the fact that he is now my father-in-law. Needless to say, I’ve never presented any work to my father-in-law before. Although I should have been used to working in a family-run company from my past experiences, this just felt so different.
“You should have more confidence in your work,” Reiner replied, completely unaffected.
“Easy for you to say…” I muttered under my breath.
To Queen’s disappointment and disbelief, Reiner and I continued going to work at the office like we always did. Queen was up bright and early to nag us to go off on a honeymoon every morning before we went to work.
“We will go on a honeymoon when we are ready. There’s an important presentation coming up so we’re working hard towards that,” Reiner explained monotonously.
“You never really cared that much about office work before so why are you acting all diligent and hardworking now?” Queen asked with a look of utter shock on her face.
Reiner gave Queen the cold shoulder as he completely ignored her questions and complaint while all I could do was offer Queen one of my best smiles. I knew that she wanted nothing but the best for us and she was extremely excited that her son just got married; however, there wasn’t much that I could do to change Reiner’s mind.
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A few days after, Reiner helped me move all the stuff that I had at my apartment over to the mansion. I didn’t own very much but Reiner insisted on helping me anyways. Not surprisingly, I found the move back to the mansion easier and more pleasant than the move out of it. It had been a few days since we’ve gotten married, and everything was progressing smoothly.
Work got more hectic as we counted down the days to the big presentation with King and that meant that Reiner and I found ourselves working quite late into the night at the office. I glanced up at the clock and found that it was almost 11PM. We stayed here till well past midnight last night and I guessed that tonight wouldn’t be that different.
My phone lit up, signaling that I had just received a text message. I knew without looking at my screen who the text was from. It was Kat and she was probably asking me if I was going to work at the bar. Since marrying Reiner, I haven’t turn up there at all. Now that I think about it, we haven’t told anyone besides Reiner’s parents that we had gotten married. It’s been many days now since then. Is this normal?
Although I knew that nothing was stopping me from letting other people know, I’ve been finding it hard to break the news to other people and I started to wonder if Reiner felt the same. Kat would be so shocked, and she would probably get mad at me for not telling her anything about it. It wasn’t exactly my fault. How was I supposed to know that he was going to propose during our weekend trip? Then we got married before the weekend came to an end too. Talk about a shot gun wedding.
I should tell my other colleagues at the bar and Jamie too. My mind quickly shifted to Lucien, Edward, and Zak. How am I supposed to break this news to them and how would they react?
Just thinking about it gave me a headache. I reached out to grab the bottle of water that I always had on my work desk before gulping down a lot of water. Someone somewhere said that water was needed for the brain to function properly. After downing all that water, I reached the genius conclusion to deal with all of it later.
Letting the Rosenhall guys know that I got married was going to be extremely difficult, but that problem seemed a little far away. The problem that was staring me right in the face right now was whether Reiner would allow me to continue working at the bar. He seemed to be fine with it before but now that I’m his wife, I wasn’t quite sure if he still felt the same way.
Our work had been keeping us busy and that served as a convenient excuse for me to skip out on my work at the bar, but I knew that sooner or later, I would have to turn up to work there. That would also mean that sooner or later, I’ll have to talk to Reiner about it.
–To be continued…