Chapter 199: The ride home (4)
"Take my hand," Kayla said, offering her hand to Siena.
The carriage had long stopped, but Siena did not get out. It would be trouble if Travis were to come out and see her still sitting there.
Siena snapped out of her thoughts and looked around to finally notice she was back home. "I’m sorry. I was thinking about something," she answered, taking Kayla’s hand to step out of the carriage.
"Is it about Rafael? I wish you had more time with him. After some thought and listening to the women around us speak of him, I realised how exhausting it must be to be approached by countless young women wanting to court him. It is like how angry I used to get when you were bothered by so many young men," Kayla said.
Kayla thought that Siena was so understanding of not getting to speak with Rafael much since she had been in his shoes, dismissing people because she was tired of being courted by people she didn’t like.
"I knew from the very beginning that there would be a slow start to Rafael and I speaking. I wonder if it is best that he knows we are to marry instead of lying to him. I wanted him to get to know me before his uncle tried to introduce us. To see that I am in the same position as him, but I fear he will just push me away," said Siena.
She needed Rafael to be on the same page as her so if he tried to break this engagement she would be aware and ready to leave this town to return home. She wanted to work with him so she would be safe in the end. Safe from Travis and then find a way for her father to not be upset with her since it would be Rafael breaking the marriage.
If Rafael would not beat his uncle, Siena was ready to be his wife and wanted the two of them to at least get to know each other so they could peacefully exist in the same space. She was trying her best to get to know Rafael since, at the moment, a wedding seemed like it was going to happen.
Siena looked at the front of the carriage where the guard Travis assigned her stood. She needed a new guard who wouldn’t report everything to Travis. She wished her father would have listened to her when she said she should stay in her own mansion so she could stay out of the battles between Rafael and Travis.