Chapter 307: Convincing (1)
Annalise expected the worst when she and Rafael returned to where they left everyone, but as they rode back and the two armies were in view, she found that they had gone back to holding off on their sides while her father and a knight were in the middle.
There were more people than she would like lying on the ground and from their distance, she couldn’t make out who had fallen. It appeared that they had gotten into a fight, but somehow stopped and were now talking.
It wasn’t long before their return was noticed and Phillip was the first to ride out to meet her then the knight he was speaking with followed.
"What are the odds they ended the war without us?" Annalise asked, confused as to why they weren’t fighting. What stopped them?
"Annalise!" Phillip called to her. He wasn’t happy to see the knight seated behind her, but he was glad to have her back. If not for the border guards coming toward them, he would have rode after his daughter. He could only send out a group to look for her and every second without a sight of her pricked his heart.
Annalise slowed down her horse so she could speak with her father. "Do not attack him again, father. He was helping us before and you foolishly attacked him. Don’t give me any more reason to stop speaking to you."
Phillip gripped the reins of his horse. He didn’t know the full story of Annalise’s involvement with the man behind her. He would have never imagined that Annalise would allow herself to be so close to a knight to the point she left with him at a time like this.
As far as he knew, Annalise never showed any type of interest in men more than just watching them as they trained. If not catching her watching them, he would have started to think she was interested in women or planned to stay alone forever.
It scared him to think she had developed strong feelings for the knight, but the man was just looking to play with his daughter.