Chapter 207: Separate ways (1)
"I should take this off now. I don’t want to wear it too much," Annalise said, taking off the helmet. "Once again, thank you. I feel like I owe you something now. It must have cost a bit of money to get a helmet to fit my head so quickly. Unless you have been planning this for days?"
"It didn’t take any extra money. Only a few questions for why I was getting a smaller helmet made. The knights normally go to get their new helmets and I go for mine. I don’t need anything in return from you because you like the gifts. That is not how gifts work for me so just take them and enjoy it," Rafael replied, satisfied with just seeing that he got the gifts right.
Annalise looked at her slight reflection in the helmet. "I will treasure this well. How much must you like me for me to get the full armour? Are you close to that yet?" She asked, hoping that he was since she could already see herself in full armour.
"Don’t push it, Annalise."
"Why? Don’t you think it would make your cheeks hot to see me clothed in full armour? I happen to enjoy the sight of a man in armour. Imagine how it would look on me. If you ever want to get me full armour, I will not be against it. It might just make me like you," Annalise said, wrapping the helmet back in the cloth so she could hide it from any wandering eyes still in the manor.
"A full set of armour would really be all it takes for you to like me?" Rafael asked, somewhat considering getting her the rest. He could save it for later after he got her to like him for who he was, not because she was convinced by what he got her.
Of all his years of being around women, he knew that pretty jewelry could get them to feel like they had fallen in love with just anyone, but armour was never something he thought would have the same effect.
Not even the few female knights around the manor would want armour as a gift for being courted. They would yell and say they were still women and wanted to be courted as such.
What else was he to give Annalise in the future to make her this happy aside from armour? He already thought of a sword and then it wouldn’t be long before guns would be used around the kingdom. It would be the one time he would like for her to go back scaring others with snakes instead of getting her hand on a gun.