Chapter 435: Why I can’t stay (3)
"Have they always been this childish?" Annalise muttered, trying her hardest to block out the noise coming from outside.
Her mother’s voice was heard for a moment as she questioned what Phillip and Rafael were doing, but then it became soft, most likely because she had given up.
Annalise didn’t see why everyone had gone outside when it was obvious her father wasn’t trying to kill Rafael and she couldn’t imagine that Rafael was the one to start this. Annalise imagined that her father might have either told Rafael to pick up a sword or sneaked and attacked Rafael and now this was the point they were at.
"Why am I cutting vegetables when they are outside having fun?" Annalise wondered, putting down her knife as it wasn’t fair she was inside doing this.
This was time she could take to think about all the things she wanted to do with Rafael before he would go back to the manor alone. She also needed to think of how she would tell him that he was going back to the manor without her because they had made plans to go back together.
"Oh no," Annalise panicked, realising something important she had to do with Rafael. "Lydia."
It was on her mind up until the point she returned home that she was going to the orphanage to see Lydia again. She wanted to go with Rafael straight from here while the knights would return to the manor. It would be their first trip alone for her to see more of the kingdom on her way there.
Annalise had so much to do here, but at the same time, she didn’t want to prolong going to see Lydia.
She only needed a little over a week away from home to go to see Lydia to spend more time with her and see if it would work for Lydia to be with her and Rafael. They had to make it known that Annalise was from the border so Annalise anticipated that there might be some resistance to let Lydia come with her because no one seemed to know about what Nicolas was doing or about his relationship with Iris.