The Knight's Mysterious Maid-Chapter 267: Future (1)

"I’m sorry that I will have to make you wait again for an answer. I always have you waiting," Annalise said, feeling guilty for never being able to respond to his confessions right away.

"I would rather you ask for some time to think than reject me. I will wait for your answer," Rafael answered, loosening his hold on Annalise as he was finished filling her with his seed. They were both in need of a bath to get rid of the sweat that coated their bodies and to wash off his seed that did not stay inside Annalise.

"How is it possible for me to feel more tired than I am after training with a sword? I just want to sleep now," Annalise said, resting her head on his shoulder. All she wanted to do now was lay in bed and have food brought to her.

"You need to get cleaned up first," Rafael said.

"How about you be my butler tonight and take care of me?" Annalise suggested. "It is partially your doing that I am so tired. I am normally someone full of energy so you must have stolen it from me."

"It sometimes feels like this at the end. Wanting to lay around and do nothing, but be with each other. Stay here while I start to fill the tub with water. If you are too tired, I will clean you."

"That just sounds like you want to find your way back into me again," Annalise muttered, shuddering at the feeling of Rafael pulling out of her. She felt incredibly empty after their time with him inside of her. "It is unbelievable that I survived that. This calls for me to be spoiled after what I endured."

Annalise laid flat on the bed, trying to get over the sensation she still felt between her legs. She was not going to have sex with him again tonight. If she got started again, there was no telling when she would come off of him.

They needed to be thankful their time was not interrupted and end it here since someone was bound to bring Rafael dinner. Also, if he were to enter her again, she would get more attached to him than she already was.

"Endured? That is an interesting way of describing what just happened. You handled it well," Rafael teased as he got to his feet to go to the bathroom. He touched his shoulder when he stood as there was a slight pain.

If Annalise were to know that it started to hurt, she might give him a wound that was more painful than the one he already had.

Before he entered the bathroom, Rafael looked back at Annalise lying on the bed with her eyes closed. It wouldn’t be long before she would be asking for food. After washing up and a change of clothes, he would go down to get food for the two of them and then come back here to lay together.

Annalise opened her eyes to look out the open window as she waited for Rafael to finish preparing water for her. She appreciated Rafael being a gentleman to take care of her when she felt tired. She would soon be back to normal, but she would stay like this a little longer to enjoy being treated like she was the lady and he was the servant.

Annalise started to think about a future where she didn’t need to return to the border. She imagined how someone like Mavis would react to Rafael returning and saying that she was to be taken care of. Not as a maid, but as a woman he was courting.

The faces of maids who treated her poorly would change and there was no doubt that many would say she was successful in her plans of seducing him after becoming his maid. Annalise would enjoy making them have to smile before her since she didn’t care about their words. They could believe whatever they wanted. She knew the truth that Rafael fell for her first.

Rafael soon returned to the bed to lift Annalise to the tub so she would not have to walk.

"You are like a child sometimes," Rafael said because of the big smile she wore after he easily lifted her.

"I happen to admire your strength and I don’t think you should mention me being like a child after the things you just did to me. Is it hurting?" Annalise asked right after noticing blood was staining his bandage. There wasn’t any blood the last time she looked at it unless she was so distracted that she missed it. "Did I hurt it?"

"You didn’t," Rafael answered as he placed Annalise in warm water. "The bandage just needs to be cleaned."

"Because the wound was disturbed and now it is bleeding. Perhaps we shouldn’t have-"

"Don’t," Rafael stopped her. "I don’t know how many times I must say that the wound is fine. I was the one to mess with it just now. It was not your doing."

Annalise didn’t believe him, but then again, throughout what they did in bed, there was no blood so he could have caused the wound to bleed when he entered the bathroom. "Then you should be more careful. It will not get better quickly if you are not careful."

"You scold me as if you are my wife," Rafael said.

"Keep making me worry and to get rid of having to constantly worry about you, I will be your killer," Annalise said.

Annalise sat in the tub, watching Rafael pick up a cloth used for bathing. "Will you not join me? There is plenty of room. We shouldn’t waste any water."

"If you can try to keep your hands off of me."

Annalise flicked water Rafael’s way in response. She liked to touch him but he was no different. "Remember that when you get in," she said, making space for him to sit behind her.

Rafael joined Annalise in the tub, sitting behind her to let her rest back on him. He filled his right hand with water and poured it on Annalise’s back to start cleaning her. "When we return to the manor, I need to leave for Lockwood right away. The king is requesting my presence," he said.

"I know that you would like for me to join you, but I want to leave to visit my parents while you are away. I would only be a distraction if I travel with you and it is about time I return to let my parents see that I am well. Would you grant me permission to leave?" Annalise asked, closing her eyes to enjoy him cleaning her skin with the cloth he had and with his hand as he poured water on her. "I will travel with my brother. He misses home."

"I do not know how long I will be away from the manor. I am hoping that it will not be weeks like my last order. Since you do not wish to come with me, I will tell Mavis you are free to leave. I fear if I leave you at the manor, I will return to stories of you scaring others," said Rafael.

"So, you have little faith in me. I promised you that I would not scare anyone and I have been keeping that promise. It is only the chickens you would need to worry about. I still wish to put a few of them over a fire. You should see the way some of them side-eye me when I walk by. I know they are plotting my death," Annalise said, thinking of the one she knew to be the leader.

"Didn’t you speak of keeping my hands off of you? My breasts aren’t in need of such care," Annalise said, opening her eyes to look down at Rafael’s left hand wiping the cloth over her chest.

"I am only making sure that you are properly cleaned," Rafael answered.