Chapter 311: Accepting (1)
"Remember, we are to focus on starting a truce today. Not focusing on Rafael. I still think we should have left my mother at home," Annalise said, trying to ignore her mother’s obvious excitement to meet Rafael. She was lucky that Celeste did not want to come.
"I cannot miss out on an important meeting that concerns there being peace," Celine answered, trying to hide her interest in meeting Rafael. She had been trying to come up with an idea of how Annalise got herself involved with a knight. How did working for him end up with loving him?
How did Rafael get her daughter to feel something for him? Have a relationship with him while knowing the consequences she could face?
Annalise would never believe her mother was here just to talk about a truce. When Annalise told her mother what happened with Rafael, first she dragged Phillip away to have a private talk, and then she came back to speak about meeting Rafael.
Celine wasn’t happy with the way Phillip attacked Rafael and before they could make Annalise run off again, she wanted to be the voice of reason to see the man causing her family to be split and make a decision on accepting him or aiming for his head.
"I don’t believe you don’t have any interest in meeting Rafael," said Annalise.
Annalise didn’t worry about her mother when it came to Rafael. Her mother was always the easy parent when it didn’t involve her interest in swords instead of doing things like other young ladies. It wouldn’t be hard for Rafael to win over her mother, but she was worried about what her mother would say to Rafael.
Her mother was like Beatrice when it came to marriage. With only one child, when marriage came up her mother would get too excited. If the two women were to meet soon, Annalise and Rafael would have to run away to avoid their questioning.
"What do you want?" Annalise questioned when another horse rode close to her own. She didn’t have to look to her right to see who it was. "It was you, wasn’t it? The one who told my father about Rafael. I don’t want to speak to you right now, Thomas."