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Ingrid laughed, knowing full well she wouldn’t be downloading any app but that she needed to make a decision on work, and she needed to make it soon.
CHAPTER 18
It had been three days, three long days since she’d offered Ingrid the job as her private secretary. She hadn’t seen Ingrid since, nor had she gotten her answer. Elin was beginning to wonder if she ever would, when there was a knock at her door.
“Yes,” she said.
“Your Majesty, Miss Ingrid Olson is here to see you,” the attendant said as he held the door open.
“Yes. I mean, yes. I mean, send her in. It’s okay; she can come in.”
Bumbling idiot. She was a bumbling idiot.
“Your Majesty,” Ingrid said as she walked in.
“Hi,” Elin replied, standing up from behind her desk. “Would you like to sit down? I can have coffee brought in, or…” She checked her watch. “It’s after five; maybe a drink would be better? Wine? Or, something stronger, if you want.”
“No, Ma’am. I have to be going soon,” Ingrid replied.
“Oh, okay.” Elin walked around to the front of her desk, leaned back against it, and rested her hands on top of it behind her.
“Your Majesty, I wanted to tell you in person that I’ve turned in my resignation as private secretary to Her Royal Highness, Princess Mari.”
Elin smiled and said, “You didn’t have to formally resign to return to being my secretary, Ingrid. A simple yes would have been fine.”
“Ma’am, I’m leaving the palace,” she corrected.
Elin’s smile disappeared instantly.
“You’re leaving?”
“Yes, Ma’am.”
“Why?”
“I think it’s time, Your Majesty.”
“Elin.”
“I’m sorry, Ma’am.”
“Just Elin right now, please.”
“Ma’am, we’re in the palace, in your office… It’s important that–”
“You’re really leaving?” Elin interrupted.
“Yes, Ma’am.”
“May I ask where you’re going?”
“My stepfather has had a job for me for a while. I’ll be working in his company.”
“This is really what you want?” Elin checked.
Ingrid didn’t say anything for a long moment. Then, she nodded, but it wasn’t her usual, confident nod; there was hesitation there.
“Ingrid, name the job you want here. If you don’t want to be my private secretary or Mari’s, I will find you something. Whatever you want – I’ll find it.”
