Chapter 3: A lady’s thigh (1)
"Men. Sweet beautiful shirtless men," Annalise said, watching the knights who returned with Rafael in the middle of the night run laps around the training grounds. She was blessed with the perfect view from the second floor as they ran by below, already back to training.
Cara came to Annalise's side to see what was making her smile so much. "I can see why Rafael is not on your list. Now you see why women love this job. You'll enjoy it more when they start to fight against each other. If we finish our morning tasks quickly, I will introduce you to the knights I know. I have a list of knights you should beware of. They say their hearts belong to you but then they are in the arms of another woman when your back is turned."
"I don't intend to be involved with any of them. I just like admiring their beauty. They should stop running around without shirts if I am to do my job right. Mavis will look for any opportunity to fire me soon. We should go before she scolds us for being late to help set the table for breakfast," Annalise stated, but her sight remained on the guards.
"It is you who will be late because you cannot tear your eyes away from the men running around. I'm amazed by this side of you. Here I thought you were some little virgin who had no interest in men."
Annalise looked away from the training grounds after hearing Cara's assumption. "I don't see how looking at men makes me not a virgin, and just because I do not want to sleep with Rafael, I somehow have no interest in men? I simply show interest in men I find to my liking, and though I can admit Rafael is quite handsome, I don't want to have an intimate relationship with my employer."
"What I meant did not come out right. When we heard a farm girl was coming to be a maid, we thought you would be the same shy, only cares about work, and has some boy back at home she wants to get married to type of girl. You've been here for two weeks, but you have not shown an interest in anyone. This is the first time I saw you gawking at men," Cara explained, hooking her arm with Annalise's.
"A better assumption should have been that I am not attracted to any of the men that I saw."
"Honestly, I thought you might have been secretly into women. Me, to be specific," Cara shrugged her shoulders.
"Ha!" Annalise scoffed. "Not even in your dreams would that be true."