The Knight's Mysterious Maid
Chapter 62: Curious gaze (1)

Chapter 62: Curious gaze (1)

"If you keep your eyes on what is in front of you, you’ll be able to finish faster," Annalise said as she watched Heidi struggle to take her eyes away from the knights. The maids had set themselves up to not get their work done by staying near the water.

Annalise wished they had all banded together to push Logan into the water, so he could not have asked Rafael to let them stay. If it ever came to it, the first person Annalise would kill had changed from Rafael to Logan.

Annalise had already washed her sheets in the water and hung them up on a nearby tree for them to start drying. Now she was watching Heidi after helping her put up two of her sheets, and there was only one left.

"I will finish soon. It is not my fault that the biggest distraction in town is around us. I don’t want to stare too much for them to think I am a creep," said Heidi, trying not to drool like the other maids. It always worked better when she acted like she was not interested in anyone.

"It’s a bit too late for that. Hey!" Annalise chuckled after Heidi splashed water on her.

Even though Annalise wanted to leave to get away from the knights, feeling the water against her skin felt great. It helped cool her down from the heat, and she was almost tempted to jump in as some of the other maids had done. Rafael did not look annoyed or angry with them playing around, just like the knights.

To Annalise, he looked like an overprotective father keeping watch over his children because one of them was bound to act like a fool and almost drown.

The knights who normally looked scary, now seemed normal. Some acted like young boys as they played around, and some Annalise thought were striking a pose and flaunting their muscles to get the maids attention.

She could see why it was a waste of time to tell the knights and maids not to be involved with each other. Each side could not resist looking at each other. Just as the maids would get excited to see the knights and keep staring at them, the knights had someone they liked and were keeping watch of.

Annalise had her own personal fool she was avoiding looking his way to avoid a conversation starting up. She didn’t see why he thought she would want a relationship or friendship with him when he kept calling her bush girl.

Her fist trembled as she heard the name in her head. Rafael was smart to not call her a pervert or she would start plotting on his life now.

Annalise looked away from Heidi to the water, where she could clearly see pretty rocks. She used to collect them as a child and store them in a special place outside. Needing something to pass the time, Annalise stood up and walked into the water to start collecting the rocks that looked pretty.

’I can take these home. Father wouldn’t make me throw away rocks,’ Annalise hoped. She didn’t have any faith that the blanket Rafael had given her would escape a fire if she took it back home. It was a shame since she loved it more than she wanted to. She had never slept so peacefully since she came here.

Annalise bent down and picked up a stone with a blue color to it. She has always been curious about how the rocks got their color. Just like the knights playing around in the water, Annalise felt like a child again. With the current situation she was in as a stranger here, these rocks would not only serve as decoration for her room, but as a weapon to the head if needed.

Unbeknownst to Annalise, Rafael noticed her walking around the water, looking down at whatever caught her eye, and then picking it up. She was the only person to make him concerned whenever she was searching for something. He tried to think quickly of what could be in the water to scare someone.

If she managed to catch the small fish with her hands, he didn’t know whether to be amazed or angry with her. It was a skill he saw only those who were talented at hunting for fish having.

Rafael watched her go back down into the water, and from the angle she stood at this time, he saw that it was just a rock. One of the more colorful ones you could find if you looked carefully. He watched her toss the rock back onto the grass, where there was already a small pile.

For some reason, seeing that it was just rocks didn’t help stop him from worrying about what she needed them for. The more he saw her, the more he found her to be strange. Perhaps strange wasn’t the right word. She was a little bit different. Rafael couldn’t think of any other woman who walked around picking up a snake like it was nothing to be afraid of.

Rafael was curious about what else there was to her but then shook his head since he was getting ahead of himself.

Standing next to Rafael, Christian splashed his face with water when he started to feel hot again. He was surprised he had gotten Rafael to stay in the water for this long instead of going back to his study to hide and do work.

Christian glanced beside him at Rafael and found him to be his usual quiet self, but his eyes were fixated on something. Christian followed his gaze in the direction of where Annalise stood away from the other maids.

Christian stared at her, once again trying to piece together how she had Rafael either looking her way so often or leaving training yesterday to help her catch chickens. All this time, he had been trying to set Rafael up with women, but he had the wrong type of woman that Rafael liked. Of course, a strange man like Rafael would like someone like the maid in front of him.

Weird people would always find each other.

’It is time the commander enjoyed the warmth of a woman,’ Christian said, deciding to do whatever he could to set up the two. It wasn’t every day he saw Rafael stare at a woman this much, so he needed to help before that interest would fade.

Beatrice would finally give him a pat on the back for completing the task she had given him, which was to make sure her son met women so she could have her grandchildren. Christian could hear her say that she wasn’t getting any younger.

Michael inched closer to Christian and Rafael to try to see what they were peering at. "Let me in-"

"Shut up," Christian said, pushing Michael to the side so he could not ruin the moment.

Rafael looked away from Annalise to Christian, who smiled in return. The people around him smiling when he looked at them, meant something bad was about to happen or had already happened. "What did you do?" Rafael asked, hoping he wouldn’t regret doing so. He had a feeling Christian would say something that would make this his time to leave.

It was bad enough that he had to watch Michael making a big splash in the water because the short idiot could not swim and Christian had pushed him to a deeper spot.

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