" Did you talk to all your past employers this way?” he eventually asks.
“I would have if they were as rude as you.”
Both of his brows shoot up and I’m prepared for him to start shouting to his secret service and have me dragged off to the guillotines.
Instead he gives me a tight smile. “I’ll be paying your salary. That doesn’t mean I have to like you.”:
“And I’ll be earning that salary. That doesn’t mean I have to like you either. "

― Karina Halle , A Nordic King (Nordic Royals, #3)