Chapter 407: Future (1)
Rafael was puzzled by Annalise suddenly kissing him in the middle of the busy market, but he didn’t dare stop the kiss to ask what had gotten into her. It had something to do with the women who would not go on their way and for the first time, Rafael liked that he had been surrounded by women trying to court him because of this outcome.
Rafael only wished that they could vanish to somewhere more private so he could kiss her as he wanted. A moment like that shouldn’t be shared with the people around them. Especially with men now curious about who Annalise was watching them.
There was this strange thing among men to want a woman when she was already claimed by a well-known man.
Annalise stepped back, ending the kiss because it was enough to get the word around. She was not going to show off their kiss to fill the ladies’ heads with fantasies of them being the ones kissed by Rafael.
She looked around to find some faces turning red, some appalled, and others just looking like they couldn’t believe she dared kiss Rafael in the market. Not Rafael, but her. As if it was so bad she would want to kiss the man she was in love with.
Annalise didn’t care how she would be viewed for being the one to initiate a kiss. She was already living with Rafael, sharing a bed with him despite not being married to him. Once the people here came to know that, they would think little of her so why care about what they thought now?
They could think what they wanted about her. Every night she would happily go to bed with Rafael, the man they all wanted. She would take whatever they said about her as their jealousy for not being in her position.
Annalise turned away from the strangers and looked up at Rafael who once again looked satisfied. "We should go," she said, wanting to get away from all the stares now. They were not some drama to entertain random strangers.
Rafael was not interested in running off just because they were being watched or maybe Annalise felt embarrassed now. The trip to the market had turned good and now he was going to enjoy every second of it just as they planned.