The Knight's Mysterious Maid
Chapter 151: Doubt (4)

Chapter 151: Doubt (4)

"Still, I have stated that I want to court her and you looked at me like I was a fool. Now you turn around and have feelings for the woman I already made a claim over," Logan said.

He expected this from many of the knights, but not Rafael. Rafael was supposed to be the one with integrity. The one he could trust to never betray him.

"A seat in my carriage you might be able to claim. A seat at dinner you can claim. So as with a shirt you wish to buy, but when it comes to Annalise, you cannot just claim her. Would it have been better that I lied to your face and denied liking her? That would only hurt you later on," Rafael replied.

"A moment ago you said that there is still trust for now and now you are claiming to like her," Logan said, not understanding how there could be so much change in so little time.

"I was in denial at first, but after our little sparring match, it is pointless to deny it. I have better things to do than stand here and let you try convincing me to change what I feel. I cannot control the feelings I have and ou won’t be able to change them. Besides, you should stop bothering her before she uses one of these wooden swords on you," Rafael said, inspecting Annalise’s sword which had a long crack in the middle.

There was much to learn about her family and her father who trained her. It was smart of him to train his daughter to be able to protect herself somewhere she was familiar with. She came with her brother but she spent most of her days away from him. There were jobs here her brother could have taken to be near her.

Rafael wondered if they both came looking for jobs here, but her brother was turned away.

Logan was not in need of Rafael’s advice when it came to how he courted Annalise. Where was this about him being a bother when they had a conversation a while back about his intentions with Annalise?

"Now that you like her, all of a sudden I am bothering her?" Logan questioned. His anger slowly washed away and he was humoured by the fact that he liked the same woman as Rafael.

Rafael did not respond to Logan since Annalise had made it clear that he was bothering her. Logan could continue to play deaf for all he cared.

"Fine, I like a challenge. Like her all you want Rafael, but I will be the one to end up with her. I feel like this is partially my fault. I have been telling you that you need to spend time with a woman and you went for the one that I like. I still respect you as my commander, but man to man, don’t expect me not to play dirty to get her," Logan said.

"As long as you don’t annoy me, I don’t care what you do. Now, get back to training. You’ve been slacking off," Rafael said, pushing the wooden swords into Logan’s hands.

For now, it seemed like Logan was getting over his jealousy and wouldn’t be a pain in the ass. For Rafael at least. Annalise still had to deal with Logan courting her.

Soon Logan would see that Rafael’s feelings for Annalise were not something he needed to worry about. Unlike Logan, Rafael didn’t plan to court Annalise who was not the slightest bit interested in being courted. He couldn’t say that how he treated her wouldn’t change since he had already shared his breakfast with her and brought the candy that she liked, but that was it.

The last thing he wanted to do was to express to Annalise that he had feelings for her and potentially make her uncomfortable to the point she would walk away from a good job. If in the future, he could not keep his feelings at bay, he would tell her so that he did not have to torture himself and place her in a different position so she would not quit.

Until then, Rafael was going to keep to himself so Annalise would not start acting differently around him. If there was a small chance that she might one day feel something for him, he wanted it to happen naturally. With her not feeling like she had to be with him or anyone getting in her head to tell her to make the most of his feelings to benefit from his wealth.

Rafael wanted Annalise to remain as she was now. The strange, crazy, unpredictable woman who never failed to surprise him. Besides, watching her fall for him without being as pushy as Logan was would be amusing.

"There will be no hard feelings when she is mine, right?" Logan asked, hoping a woman wouldn’t come between them.

Rafael smiled at Logan’s confidence in thinking if they were to compete, it would be him who would end up with Annalise. To not further shatter Logan’s small, fickle heart, Rafael replied, "I will try my best not to cry when the two of you get married."

"Don’t be sarcastic with me, you bastard. I am already angry with you for liking the one woman I like," said Logan.

"One woman? You like a new woman each time we come home. It is like clockwork that you find some poor woman to claim you have fallen for. It is only different this time because Annalise isn’t falling for your charm so you are not quick to move on to some other poor unsuspecting woman," Rafael replied.

This wasn’t the first time he heard Logan being so caught up with a woman, it was the first he paid attention to it because Annalise was involved.

"I need you to be in shape for the competition so don’t do or say something stupid to her to have a helmet thrown at your head. She will do it," Rafael said, knowing if he wasn’t here Logan might have been holding the side of his head because of Annalise reaching her limit with him.

"Seeing her angry is something I like," Logan replied.

Rafael placed his hands in his pants pockets and looked up through the trees to the top of his manor. "Do not speak of what I told you about Annalise to anyone or it won’t be her you have to worry about throwing a helmet upside your head," Rafael gave a warning.

If Annalise were to ever learn that he liked her, Rafael wanted it to come from his mouth. Then there was his mother. He didn’t want it reaching her ears and her getting so ahead of herself.

"I should really threaten to expose that you are like a maid so you could stay away from her."

Rafael smiled, looking to his side at Logan. "Try blackmailing me if you wish. You will experience how I react to threats. Find someone else to annoy," Rafael said, heading back to the manor to find Annalise. He might not be able to get back his helmet if he didn’t find her now.

"Of all people, why did it have to be him?" Logan muttered.

He finally got to hear about Rafael liking a woman again, but it placed him in a terrible spot to lose something he wanted.

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