The Knight's Mysterious Maid-Chapter 307: Convincing (1)

Annalise expected the worst when she and Rafael returned to where they left everyone, but as they rode back and the two armies were in view, she found that they had gone back to holding off on their sides while her father and a knight were in the middle.

There were more people than she would like lying on the ground and from their distance, she couldn’t make out who had fallen. It appeared that they had gotten into a fight, but somehow stopped and were now talking.

It wasn’t long before their return was noticed and Phillip was the first to ride out to meet her then the knight he was speaking with followed.

"What are the odds they ended the war without us?" Annalise asked, confused as to why they weren’t fighting. What stopped them?

"Annalise!" Phillip called to her. He wasn’t happy to see the knight seated behind her, but he was glad to have her back. If not for the border guards coming toward them, he would have rode after his daughter. He could only send out a group to look for her and every second without a sight of her pricked his heart.

Annalise slowed down her horse so she could speak with her father. "Do not attack him again, father. He was helping us before and you foolishly attacked him. Don’t give me any more reason to stop speaking to you."

Phillip gripped the reins of his horse. He didn’t know the full story of Annalise’s involvement with the man behind her. He would have never imagined that Annalise would allow herself to be so close to a knight to the point she left with him at a time like this.

As far as he knew, Annalise never showed any type of interest in men more than just watching them as they trained. If not catching her watching them, he would have started to think she was interested in women or planned to stay alone forever. fгeewebnovёl.com

It scared him to think she had developed strong feelings for the knight, but the man was just looking to play with his daughter.

Phillip had heard enough of how these men spoke because they didn’t see his people as human. They were fifty pigs with disgusting intentions if they were to ever reach their homes. He didn’t want Annalise to be fooled, but at the same time, he didn’t want her running off again and hating him.

He resisted the urge to finish off what he started and this time, he would listen to Annalise even though he did not like seeing them together and that Annalise left this part of her trip from him.

"Rafael!" Christian yelled, happy to see Rafael still in one piece. He was still trying to wrap his mind around the fact Annalise was here at the border and the leader was her father, but Rafael was his biggest concern at the moment.

Hearing her name leave the leader’s lips and the fact she left with Rafael was what got Christian to command the knights to stop. He knew it couldn’t be a coincidence that name was said and it made sense why Rafael did not attack earlier.

The border guards still went ahead, ignoring his order because Martin was killed by the leader. Christian didn’t let the knights help them since they were all acting like fools, disobeying clear orders.

If not for Logan asking about Annalise, they would be fighting right now. It took a few wounded men on each side and the leader wanting to hear about his daughter for it to all stop. They were still not seeing eye to eye as Christian spoke to the leader about how they knew Annalise. The knights weren’t exactly willing to sit still when it seemed like Rafael was attacked.

Christian stopped to the left of the two while Phillip was on the right. "Are you hurt?" He asked, looking over Rafael for any signs of an injury.

"It is a small wound," Rafael answered.

"Some of the guards are injured or dead. I’ve sent the injured ones back to the camp to be looked at. Martin is dead and we found a gun on him. What do we do now?" Christian asked since there was still tension in the air and both sides were close to fighting again.

Rafael looked to Phillip to see if he was going to try attacking again or be willing to speak about a possible truce between his people and the guards until there was an official truce signed by the king.

"Father," Annalise said, wanting her father to say he would not fight. "No one else has to die today. We can speak and hear each other out."

Phillip stared at Annalise, contemplating what to do. His gaze moved to Rafael’s hand that was around Annalise’s waist. "Have them take their army off our land and then we can talk. Come here, Annalise. I will take you to get your own horse," he said, holding out his hand for her to come to her.

Before Annalise got off Rafael’s horse, she needed to have a deal made with her father. "You must promise that you will not take your word back and try to have me sent home. We will speak and you will not get angry with Rafael because I have chosen him."

Annalise couldn’t hear what her father muttered, but she knew it had to be curses meant for Rafael. She truly believed that there could be any man seated behind her and her father would not be happy to see that she was ready to be with someone. It wouldn’t matter if that man was one of their people. Her father always had a hard time with her growing up.

"I will not attack as long as they get off our land and do not attack us. You and I need to have a conversation about all of this. You kept me in the dark about something important. We need to speak alone so come with me," said Phillip.

If not for the note he found, he wouldn’t have known about Annalise’s intentions for wanting to speak with the young commander. There wasn’t much information for him to know Annalise cared for the man as she did or that the commander truly cared for her. He saw red and rode off immediately to come for Rafael’s head.

Annalise also wanted to speak with her father alone so she let go of the reins and started to get off the horse to go with him. The two of them would end up falling off his horse if he made an attempt to take her away from Rafael. She liked to believe her father wouldn’t be so foolish to act without thinking this time.

"Rafael," Annalise said, stopping to look at him when his hand would not leave her waist to let her get down. "I trust that my father won’t be so impulsive and you will only piss him off by doing this. I don’t have time for the two of you to be testing each other. Let me down."

Rafael kept his eyes on Phillip who was also staring him down because he wouldn’t let go of Annalise. Something told him that if her father could, he would try to take Annalise home the moment she got on his horse.

Rafael let go of Annalise when he started to feel her nails in his skin. "You are wounding an injured man,’ he said.

Annalise slid off the horse and walked over to her father. She was close to pulling both of them off their horses and flipping them for being a pain in the ass.

"Because he wouldn’t listen. Send your knights and guards back. We will give you time to pick up your fallen people and then we meet to speak. Don’t listen to what he says, Christian. Rafael needs to be taken to a doctor," Annalise said as she got up on her father’s horse. "I think an hour is good enough time for everyone to clear their thoughts and meet."

Phillip finally looked away from Rafael as he guided his horse to go back to where everyone awaited him. He could not understand what about the fellow there that Annalise liked. He couldn’t see Rafael’s face clearly because of the armour, but if he looked like his father, Phillip didn’t think it was the looks she liked.

Christian watched Annalise leave with her father and then said, "Honestly, this is much better than what I thought was wrong with her."