Chapter 278: Loved until the end (1)
"Watch your step," Rafael said to Annalise as he helped her exit the carriage.
Rafael and Annalise were back at the manor while the knights escorted Beatrice and River to their home for Beatrice to start packing to join Rafael in Lockwood.
It was two hours until Rafael and many of his knights would set out to the palace. A few were staying to keep the manor protected and offer River help should he need any with Travis.
Annalise wanted to ask Rafael if he knew where the king wanted to send him, but she already knew that Rafael couldn’t or wouldn’t share that information with her so she didn’t. She could only hope that it had nothing to do with the border.
"I’ve gotten out of plenty of carriages without your help. Do you remember when I told you to stop opening doors for me? That has changed a lot, hasn’t it?" Annalise asked as she exited the carriage with Rafael’s help.
She looked on at the manor she had come to miss. It was once a place she and Thomas worried about being dangerous for her to enter, but then it became somewhere she liked. There were people inside that she was happy she got to meet. Friends who would try to tie her up to her bed to keep her from leaving.
"You can go to rest if you want to. There is nothing for you to do now since it is early," Rafael said. He went around to the back of the carriage to start taking off the bags since he would need this carriage for his mother to use when they were leaving.
Annalise joined Rafael at the back of the carriage to help him with the bags. There was nothing else for her to do than this. One of her bags was already packed and she only had to gather the last of her things in her room. Like the helmet Rafael gifted to her and the few dresses she left behind.
"I can’t just leave you to take down the bags and thanks to me falling asleep in the carriage, I am not tired. The sky is already becoming lighter. Did it take us longer to return?" Annalise asked as it felt they should have been back earlier than this.