Chapter 464: Something to share (3)
"There will be plenty of people at home to help me and I can care for myself. How did I go from being worried to now trying not to have you be so worried? I truly believe that we will make this work. One day we’ll look back and laugh at how we struggled but also succeeded at making a long distance work. Trust me," Annalise said, fully confident it would all be fine.
Rafael smiled, no longer wanting Annalise to have to go out of her way to cheer him up. He couldn’t help worrying, but since Annalise was confident, he should be too. It was just a little harder for him because she would get to witness everything.
Lydia was already grown up and not having any other children, Rafael wanted to be around to see all the stages of their child growing in Annalise to the day they would finally be here.
He might not seem like the man to care for it, but Rafael wanted to be around to witness each new change.
He thought now about the palace sending him off to deal with more trouble around the kingdom. It was weeks and sometimes a few months that he was away depending on how strong the enemy was. That was something he could not do at this time.
Rafael wasn’t going to give up on his promise to Tobias, but at this time, he should get to take some time off to enjoy this time in his life. He had given many of his days to protecting the kingdom. If a fight were to end up lasting a month or more, someone else would have to take over.
Now Rafael questioned how his father made this all work when he was in this position. Looking back now, it never felt like River was away from home long even though he was. Rafael remembered his father having to be away for nearly a month, but it didn’t feel long to him.
It might have been thanks to his mother. Beatrice always had something planned to do with Rafael so he wouldn’t notice his father was missing around the house. River would return home and it was like he had left yesterday.
"I can tell that you are still thinking about the future. I don’t mind you being the worried parent and me being the fun one," Annalise said.