Chapter 208: Separate ways (2)
The next day, Annalise leaned on a wall watching as others passed by in a hurry to get to what they visited the market for. She was waiting for Thomas in their usual spot so she could find out what happened with the person sent by the palace.
News wasn’t reaching the manor as fast as she liked and since she became Rafael’s maid, she had not taken a day off to come to the market to hear what the people were talking about these days. The gossip in the manor was about Rafael, the knights, or the dead men the town guards were looking for.
While she waited, she prepared how she was going to break to Thomas that she would be leaving town with Rafael and his family. Annalise was still deciding if she should tell him that she would not be here. Thomas was going to lose his mind so a part of her really wanted to hide this from him.
For their plans, it wouldn’t make sense for her to go out of town with the Callahans, but she was still Rafael’s maid. It was part of her job to go with them. How could she as the maid say she was not going when it was her job? Mavis might have her head and go back to asking for her to be fired.
Thomas would not like it and ask her to quit, but Annalise was not going to. She was able to hear so many things about the border guards thanks to the knights being angry about the town guards coming to the manor to ask about the missing men.
The knights revealed a lot of secrets about the border guards connections in the court or around the kingdom, and their failed plans to take over the border which now resulted in the knights being called to deal with the border. They spoke out of anger, but then caught themselves when they realised they were saying too much.
She learned that to get them to spill the information she needed to get one of Rafael’s enemies in town to rile them up. They were like mother hens when it came to Rafael.
"Annalise."
"It took you long enough to get here. Were you working or did you forget where we meet?" Annalise asked, looking up from the ground to Thomas. "It looks like you have been eating well so I don’t need to worry about you. I brought some money with me in case you don’t have much of your own."