9. Avoiding Mr. Reino

"OUT."

Reino dragged the woman he thought was moving too slowly out of the hotel room he had booked. He did not care if she was still half naked.

"Wait Reino. I'm not done getting dressed yet." The woman shouted angrily. But it was no use, Reino had already slammed the door.

The tall white man, still naked, growled in frustration in the messy suite. Not a mess after sex, but Reino had destroyed some of the room's contents.

Shards of decorative lamps lay on the floor, as did vases of flowers. Not to mention the phone and the electric kettle, which lay helplessly under the broken flat-screen TV.

"Damn it. What the hell did that woman do to me?" growled Reino, who was already sitting on the edge of the bed, cursing Lydia.

Yes, that was true. Lydia was Reino Andersen's ex-contract wife. The man cursed his ex-contract wife because after the incident when they accidentally slept together, Reino seemed to lose his quality in bed.

After yesterday's failure with his annoying secretary, this time it's even worse. Reino's 'antique' didn't react at all, even after being stimulated like crazy. And it was embarrassing.

"I have to do something." Reino muttered after he calmed down.

"I have to at least find out what made me this way. And that means starting with her."

Reino nodded in agreement with her idea, which he thought was a bit crazy. But rather than not being able to have fun, it was better to be crazy.

***

"Attention." Kiara suddenly shouted.

"They say Mr. Boss Reino is inspecting every department." Kiara continued while staring at her cell phone.

"What? How come? How did you know?" Mrs. Nia, who was busy checking reports, looked up immediately. Lydia, who was calculating taxes, looked over as well.

"I've joined many chat groups in this office, ma'am." Kiara smiled proudly at her wide social circle. "And now Mr. Reino says he wants to come to our department."

Lydia's eyes immediately rounded at the words of her colleague. Hearing that Reino was going to visit the finance department made Lydia panic, she had to get out of her room.

"I'm going to the bathroom for a while." Lydia said to Kiara who had returned to sit next to her.

Lydia walked as casually as she could. She didn't want to look like she was running away, even though that was her goal. But just as Lydia was about to turn right out of her room, Reino was already visible from a distance.

In a panic, Lydia immediately turned left. On the left there was nothing but a fire escape.

In the corner, by the way, was the room of the finance department, which was too big. Opposite the toilet and the door to the internal audit room. Inevitably, Lydia was forced to open the fire escape door.

Meanwhile, as the glass door of the room he was targeting opened, Reino could see Lydia walking out. He could even see her shocked face before she ran for the fire escape.

"She's avoiding me?" muttered Reino with the same irritated look on his face.

"Why, sir?" asked Reino's flirtatious secretary in confusion. She hadn't seen Lydia earlier because she was busy reading a report on her iPad for her boss.

Reino didn't answer and went straight to the finance department with an annoyed look on his face. Reino wanted to see what he could do with that impertinent desk.

"Mr. Reino." Mrs. Nia immediately stood up and greeted the big boss. The supervisor and the assistant manager followed behind her.

The other employees were about to join in the greeting, but Reino had already raised his hand. This signaled that they could continue working and not worry about him. Although it was hard not to notice Reino's presence,

The tall man looked around the large room. There were still two empty cubicles with four chairs and tables attached to each other and separated by a partition. The cubicles were square, just like the others, and the occupants could stare at each other.

At the end of the room were two large desks, employee lockers, a photocopier, a paper shredder, a vending machine, and a neatly organized refrigerator. The room was also nearly surrounded by shelves and cabinets for storing files.

"Whose desk is that empty?" Reino pointed to the cabin where Kiara and Revan were. There were two empty desks and one of them seemed to be unoccupied.

"That one is on maternity leave, sir. This one is Lydia's. She went to the bathroom."

Reino nodded, then deliberately sat down at Lydia's very neat desk. And Reino asked to check some reports he was working on, as an excuse to stay in the room longer.

While the reports were being prepared, Reino washed his eyes by staring at the desk of the woman who almost drove him crazy. It was really neat, with some organizers and simple decorations on it.

Papers were neatly arranged on a three-tiered paper shelf. Complete stationery was neatly arranged in a black iron pen holder.

On a whim, Reino opened Lydia's top drawer. The contents were also very neatly divided into organizers similar to the paper shelves and pen holders. Even the trash can at Reino's feet resembles a black iron net.

What's a bit different is the large pink calculator with Hello Kitty decorations. There are also two clip holders, each holding a Polaroid photo.

Reino looked at the photos carefully. The first photo was of 4 people that Reino remembered as Lydia's friends that he had seen eating together the other day. The other was a photo of 3 people, one of whom was a man. The familiarity of his ex-wife with the man in the photo made Reino's brow furrow.

"Please report, sir." Mr. Wales, as the supervisor who gave Reino the report, dispelled all the mulatto's thoughts.

Reino took the report and exchanged brief glances with Kiara, who was sitting next to him. Only briefly, before Reino opened the report page by page.

But the problem was that Reino couldn't even concentrate. His eyes kept looking at the photo on the table. Not to mention Reino's mind, which kept thinking that he was sitting where Lydia usually sat. The thoughts ended with Reino imagining Lydia sitting sensually on his lap.

"Damn it." He growled in annoyance.

"Is something wrong, sir?" Nia, who had deliberately sat at the empty table in the booth to see Reino's reaction, moved immediately.

"Nothing yet." Reino replied casually.

"I have to do something about that woman." Reino muttered to himself. "No matter what happens, I have to be able to get her on the bed."

Now there was only one problem. Reino could never get in touch with Lydia. For some reason, she never answered his calls after the divorce. And there was no way she was going to use the office intercom to tell him about such a sensitive matter.

So this time Reino decided to contact her in a primitive way. He took the sticky note that was lying on top of the pen holder and wrote something on it.

Meet me in the basement parking lot after work. Watch out if you're late. I'll fire you.