Chapter 228: Calm (2)
Upon returning to the house they were staying in, River and Beatrice went their separate ways. The knights who travelled with them were in the middle of switching with the knights left to guard the home so they could take a break.
Annalise and Rafael walked inside to go to their rooms.
"I hope there will be a nice family to visit the orphanage and take Lydia. If I could, I would take her with me, but I am not ready to be anyone’s mother. Taking care of myself is already a hard job," said Annalise.
"Many of the children find good families and if they don’t they stay until they find work and move away to start their own families. My father worked with the last king to make sure the children were taken care of. Not anyone could come into the orphanage and take them. We wish to avoid tragedy," Rafael answered.
"Maybe it would be best that you let someone else be her mother-"
"Because you think I wouldn’t make a good mother? You like to talk about me being troubled, but your mother told me about the time you ran away from school and worried her. Who is trouble now?" Annalise asked, pointing a finger at him.
Rafael grabbed her finger and refused to let go of it when Annalise tried to pull her hand back. "Stop speaking with my mother about me," he said.
"I will not. When Beatrice has interesting stories she wants to tell me, I will listen. You just don’t like the truth being revealed that you aren’t as innocent as you look. I’ve been saying for days now that you have a devilish side to you. Far from the dreamy man women speak of. Let go," Annalise said, trying to pull her finger out of his hold.
Annalise walked up the stairs to the second floor with Rafael, desperately trying to get him to let go of her finger. She was quite close to biting his hand to get him to let go of her. She was starting to get the feeling that Beatrice didn’t give him enough toys when he was young and now he was making up for what he missed by holding onto her finger.