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“Yep.”
“Can you call in sick or something?”
I laughed, really, I did. “No, I don’t think that will work. Mr. Ambrose has already let me know that it is, and I quote, of the highest importance.”
“Everything is always of the highest importance,” Gale scoffed. “We have our first state dinner together at the end of the month, and I’ve already been told to begin to prepare now—”
“Wait, state dinner? We?”
“Oh, they haven’t told you.”
I hung my head. “Every time I clear one hurdle, there is a new one.”
“It’s a marathon, not a sprint, so I’ve been told.”
“Do they tell you when you have won the marathon?”
“Sadly not. I’ll let you know when I find out.”
Knock. Knock.
“Yes?” I turned around to see Wolfgang waiting.
“They’ve come for you?” Gale said.
“Yep.”
“Dinner after dinner?”
I smiled. We’d come to do that now. “The cherry gardens?”
“It is a date.”
“It’s a date.” I beamed. “Bye. Be safe.”
“You too.”
I waited for him to hang up, but he didn’t. “Gale.”
“Odette.”
“Hang up.”
“You hang up. Wait, we’ve done this before, also.” He laughed.
“You are ridiculous. Bye!”
“Bye.”
Shaking my head, I turned off the phone. “Forgive me, Wolfgang.” I trailed off when I turned back to see the expression on Wolfgang’s face.
He beamed with joy almost as much as I did.
“What is it?”
He shook his head. “I am just glad you and Prince Galahad are happy. It’s like Seattle, but here.”
I relaxed, inhaling deeply. “Thank you, Wolfgang.”
