Chapter 261: Connected (1)
Annalise travelled with River, Beatrice, and the knights to a small house River thought would keep them safe until it was time to return home. She was able to properly wash up to get the blood off her, but there were no dresses in the house they were using, so she washed the spots with blood on her dress and hung up the dress in the room she was given to use.
Unfortunately, the town guards took the man River had knocked unconscious, but they would allow River to visit the small court in town to get the chance to question him.
The workers from the shoe shop were given money because of what they witnessed today, and the owner was also given money to help with cleaning up any traces of blood the knights missed. Some of the money was also for any damages caused.
Annalise was impatient to hear about Rafael. River sent someone with a message to Rafael, but a message was not sent back to him. Annalise sat by a window to see when a knight or anyone would come to say it was safe to leave.
When her dress became a little bit dry, Annalise went out to sit with Beatrice so they could keep themselves distracted while River and the knights tried to hear from Rafael and keep an eye out for more danger.
Finally, a message from Rafael came just as the sky was turning dark. Not wasting a second, they gathered whatever they had and started their journey back to the home they were originally staying in as soon as the message came.
As their carriage neared the house, Annalise tapped her fingers on the cushion of her seat as she looked out the window to inspect the damage. The front yard, garden, and gates did not look disturbed. If she wasn’t around when Rafael received word about a fight, she wouldn’t think something happened here.
There was no blood to indicate that someone died there. It didn’t calm Annalise’s mind since the knights she spotted by the gates could have tidied up the yard for their arrival and to hide that something happened here from the town guards
Annalise waited for River to help out Beatrice and then she exited the carriage to follow them to wherever Rafael was. It was odd that he did not come out to greet his parents and show that he was fine, but she tried not to be so negative and decided to go with Rafael being busy dealing with the people who ruined today.