Chapter 62: Curious gaze (1)
"If you keep your eyes on what is in front of you, you’ll be able to finish faster," Annalise said as she watched Heidi struggle to take her eyes away from the knights. The maids had set themselves up to not get their work done by staying near the water.
Annalise wished they had all banded together to push Logan into the water, so he could not have asked Rafael to let them stay. If it ever came to it, the first person Annalise would kill had changed from Rafael to Logan.
Annalise had already washed her sheets in the water and hung them up on a nearby tree for them to start drying. Now she was watching Heidi after helping her put up two of her sheets, and there was only one left.
"I will finish soon. It is not my fault that the biggest distraction in town is around us. I don’t want to stare too much for them to think I am a creep," said Heidi, trying not to drool like the other maids. It always worked better when she acted like she was not interested in anyone.
"It’s a bit too late for that. Hey!" Annalise chuckled after Heidi splashed water on her.
Even though Annalise wanted to leave to get away from the knights, feeling the water against her skin felt great. It helped cool her down from the heat, and she was almost tempted to jump in as some of the other maids had done. Rafael did not look annoyed or angry with them playing around, just like the knights.
To Annalise, he looked like an overprotective father keeping watch over his children because one of them was bound to act like a fool and almost drown.
The knights who normally looked scary, now seemed normal. Some acted like young boys as they played around, and some Annalise thought were striking a pose and flaunting their muscles to get the maids attention.
She could see why it was a waste of time to tell the knights and maids not to be involved with each other. Each side could not resist looking at each other. Just as the maids would get excited to see the knights and keep staring at them, the knights had someone they liked and were keeping watch of.