Chapter 65: The problem (2)
Annalise went her separate way from Heidi when she was finished hanging out her sheets. She walked with her basket full of rocks to drop off in her bedroom before going to clean a room on the second floor.
Annalise didn’t understand why there was so much to clean when Rafael didn’t have a guest spending the night or visiting for long, other than the duke or his mother. Still, she would rather do that than clean the messy rooms belonging to the knights.
Walking down the other side of the hallway Annalise walked, Aria abruptly stood wide eye at Annalise calmly walking around. After she told Mavis the maids were down by the river playing around with knights and Rafael, she expected they would all get in trouble. She was most eager about Annalise getting in trouble, but it didn’t seem like anything happened.
Aria stood still as Annalise continued to make her way down the hall while looking out the windows instead of at her. Aria thought Annalise was going to ignore her, but to her surprise, Annalise stopped right beside her with her eyes never leaving the windows.
"It was you, wasn’t it?" Annalise asked. The moment she saw Aria looked as if she saw a ghost, she had an inkling Aria might have sent Mavis down by the river.
"I did not send Mavis," Aria defended herself.
Annalise smiled as she looked away from the window. She was just assuming that it was Aria’s doing and Aria exposed herself right away. "I didn’t say anything about Mavis. You should have been my friend a little longer, Aria. I would have taught you some tricks. Like how not to expose yourself so quickly or how to execute a plan you come up with."
Aria bit her lip, wanting to slap her mouth for speaking so quickly. Annalise had always been intimidating and it caused her to speak without thinking.
"You say that I had you fooled, but you certainly fooled me. When I befriended you, I didn’t think you could be this person. To be so jealous that you would look to get others in trouble along with me," Annalise said.