Chapter 187: Let’s be friends (3)
Giselle took a step forward to match when Thomas pulled Annalise back with him. "Can I come with the two of you?"
"Why?" Annalise asked. She wasn’t a lady like Giselle and she had something important to do today.
"Just for us to chat and be friends-"
"I don’t need any more friends," Annalise cut in. Dealing with Thomas and the girls in the manor was enough. "Go friend ladies who like you and stop trying to be where you don’t fit in. Aren’t you worried they’d ridicule you more for being with a maid? Or don’t tell me you’re still trying to get close to Rafael again?"
"Oh, no I am not trying to do that. He’s turned me down for the final time so I am moving on. My brother might kill me if I continue to try to court Rafael. I just need someone to be around for a moment to get away from what is being said. I won’t stay by your side for long. I plan to leave, but I don’t want them to think they made me run. Only for a few minutes," Giselle pleaded.
Thomas didn’t want the woman and her attention to follow Annalise around. They were to keep low especially on a day like this when they needed to look out for who was coming from the palace.
"Just go home," Annalise advised Giselle. "What’s the point in staying when you no longer want to be here? The sooner you realise that if you live your life caring about other people, you won’t be able to fully enjoy this time we have in this world, the sooner you will find happiness. Miserable people focus on others because they are not happy. That’s why they are picking on you."
"That’s easy to say when you aren’t in my shoes. I’ve been dealing with their taunts for years and when I drastically changed my appearance it became worse. I can only pretend to be fine with their words for so long. Please, just let me stay with you a little while and then I will leave," said Giselle.
"Let me speak to my brother in private," Annalise said, pulling on Thomas’s arm to take him out of reach from Giselle hearing them.