Chapter 144: Strange day (3)
Annalise decided to eat a biscuit to get him to leave her alone and eat his food before Mavis came back to his room. "I will have this- You!" She exclaimed, pulling her hand away from the biscuits after Rafael gave her a small tap.
"Nothing with flour. There are eggs, sausage, fruit, a bit of meat it seems like. Eat those with something to drink. Go ahead," Rafael urged her. The glare she sent him only humoured him. He was certain that if she could, she would love to kill him. "What are you waiting for?"
Annalise didn’t want to try picking something to eat again after he tapped her hand. Not even her father had done such a thing to her. ’I’m going to kill him,’ she decided.
Everyone already assumed there was something terrible wrong with him since he returned home with a bloody shirt, if she helped to make their words true, she shouldn’t be punished.
Annalise regretted deciding to be a maid instead of trying to become a knight so she would not have been stuck in this room with Rafael. Annalise smiled despite her anger with him. This was a great test, but she was not going to fail it. She was not going to lose to Rafael Callahan.
Annalise picked up a fork and pushed it into the eggs. She kept her eyes on Rafael who was amused by every second of it. She placed the fork in her mouth and ate the egg that was much better than the one offered to her this morning. "I have eaten so now you must eat, young master," she added, to make him angry.
"This is not a game you will win, Annalise. It is only the two of us here. Take this moment to properly eat or I will have Mavis prepare that dinner will be in my bedroom. You are to eat more than bread. I have put aside a good amount of money to feed the knights and servants for a reason," Rafael said, putting food on her plate himself since she would be too stubborn to do it on her own.
"You are not the first servant I have shared my food with and you will not be the last. I know you are worried about what my kindest will do to you with the other maids, but I have always been this way. It is not my fault that all of you like to talk and spin stories," Rafael said.
He showed a bit of kindness to a woman and all of a sudden he was either sleeping with her or looking to marry her. They all liked to read too much into the simple things he did. It was why many of his "relationships" in the past were so short. He was straightforward with what his actions meant, but they chose to let their heads be filled by what others were saying.
"It is because they all want to receive a princess treatment from the beloved Rafael Callahan. It is not seen as fair that one servant at a time gets to experience it. That is enough. Do I look like I do not eat at all in your eyes? Do you wish to make me fat so I would not be able to climb out of the hole on my own as you want?" Annalise questioned, keeping her eyes on the plate he was fixing.
"And you? Do you not want to enjoy being treated like a princess?"
"I have already experienced it. It is best to let someone else have it from you," Annalise replied.