The Knight's Mysterious Maid
Chapter 144: Strange day (3)

Chapter 144: Strange day (3)

Annalise decided to eat a biscuit to get him to leave her alone and eat his food before Mavis came back to his room. "I will have this- You!" She exclaimed, pulling her hand away from the biscuits after Rafael gave her a small tap.

"Nothing with flour. There are eggs, sausage, fruit, a bit of meat it seems like. Eat those with something to drink. Go ahead," Rafael urged her. The glare she sent him only humoured him. He was certain that if she could, she would love to kill him. "What are you waiting for?"

Annalise didn’t want to try picking something to eat again after he tapped her hand. Not even her father had done such a thing to her. ’I’m going to kill him,’ she decided.

Everyone already assumed there was something terrible wrong with him since he returned home with a bloody shirt, if she helped to make their words true, she shouldn’t be punished.

Annalise regretted deciding to be a maid instead of trying to become a knight so she would not have been stuck in this room with Rafael. Annalise smiled despite her anger with him. This was a great test, but she was not going to fail it. She was not going to lose to Rafael Callahan.

Annalise picked up a fork and pushed it into the eggs. She kept her eyes on Rafael who was amused by every second of it. She placed the fork in her mouth and ate the egg that was much better than the one offered to her this morning. "I have eaten so now you must eat, young master," she added, to make him angry.

"This is not a game you will win, Annalise. It is only the two of us here. Take this moment to properly eat or I will have Mavis prepare that dinner will be in my bedroom. You are to eat more than bread. I have put aside a good amount of money to feed the knights and servants for a reason," Rafael said, putting food on her plate himself since she would be too stubborn to do it on her own.

"You are not the first servant I have shared my food with and you will not be the last. I know you are worried about what my kindest will do to you with the other maids, but I have always been this way. It is not my fault that all of you like to talk and spin stories," Rafael said.

He showed a bit of kindness to a woman and all of a sudden he was either sleeping with her or looking to marry her. They all liked to read too much into the simple things he did. It was why many of his "relationships" in the past were so short. He was straightforward with what his actions meant, but they chose to let their heads be filled by what others were saying.

"It is because they all want to receive a princess treatment from the beloved Rafael Callahan. It is not seen as fair that one servant at a time gets to experience it. That is enough. Do I look like I do not eat at all in your eyes? Do you wish to make me fat so I would not be able to climb out of the hole on my own as you want?" Annalise questioned, keeping her eyes on the plate he was fixing.

"And you? Do you not want to enjoy being treated like a princess?"

"I have already experienced it. It is best to let someone else have it from you," Annalise replied.

She didn’t have a fancy title like the people here, but at home, she was like a princess. The only difference was that she lived amongst her people unlike the young princess here who was hidden away behind the palace walls.

Annalise was glad to not have the title princess since there seemed to be some weird idea that princesses were just meant to sit pretty. Unlike the princess in this kingdom, she would lead after her father with her husband by her side.

It did not matter if she had a brother as it would not change anything. There would be a duel and whoever won would lead. It was just fortunate that she was an only child to not have to duel anyone.

"You have been courted by someone or is your father who made sure to treat you like a princess?" Rafael asked, curious about the life she had before she came here.

"It is both," Annalise answered.

"I see. If there is someone other than your father who treated you like a princess, why didn’t you stay where they are? Or are they in this town?" Rafael asked.

"I think I would like to not speak about my life and you should eat before the food gets cold. One day I will return to those who treated me well. Please eat," Annalise begged, taking the plate from his hands to start eating so he could eat. "You are like a child," she muttered.

"And you are bold to speak whatever is on your mind before me," Rafael replied.

"You said that I was free to do so and me talking makes you talk more. Seeing you quiet all the time worries the maids and your knights. You should not hide away in your study when you are not training. The night I first saw you, you were described as quiet, but you are far from it. Speak more around them. They will freak out at first, but enjoy it after," Annalise said, taking another bit of the eggs.

She would not admit it to him, but this breakfast was needed since her eating habits had changed since she started to live here. It was a little unfair that the food they prepared for Rafael was so much better than that for the maids. She needed to speak with Jonah about it. Call him a traitor for not treating her with this food.

"I speak to everyone enough. I prefer to be alone and I cannot help there is something I must look over daily. When I retire, I will be more like my father to have more of a relationship with all the servants. Can you hear me?" Rafael questioned since she looked lost in the food already for someone who did not want to eat at first.

Annalise did not answer at first due to her savouring the taste of the sausage. "How do they get it to be like this? The meat to be shaped like this? Does someone spend their day moulding it? It is no wonder why you do not skip breakfast. It is becoming cold so you should eat. Is there something wrong?" Annalise asked, touching her mouth to make sure there was no food stuck to her face because of the way Rafael stared at her.

Rafael smiled, amused by how she forgot everything once she started to eat. "It is nothing, Annalise. Eat quickly before it becomes cold as you said and have coffee or juice."

Annalise didn’t think it was nothing since there was always something with Rafael. She kept quiet now that she remembered she was eating with her employer.

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