The Forgotten Prince Chapter 15

Chapter 15: Chapter 15

"I wouldn’t do that," Rose replied, fearing he might have the wrong impression of her. She did not go around setting things on fire. Not unless he planned to keep her here against her will.

"I shall take your word for it. Excuse ," Zayne said, turning around to go back to his work.

"Are you not putting soone at the door to guard ?"

Zayne stopped as her question confused him. "Do you want to be here as a prisoner or a guest? You don’t seem satisfied when I treat you well or when I don’t treat you like a prisoner. Are you spying on ?"

Rose took a step back as Zayne returned to the opened door. "N-No," she answered. "I do not care about the war."

The corners of Zayne’s lips curled as he found her response to be interesting. "Well, you are stuck in your small world with your troubles. I don’t expect you to want to spy on , but should you think that will be your way to get money and change your life, you won’t make it out of her alive if I catch you snooping around."

She would make a grave mistake thinking he was the sa as Graham. It was easy to get rid of spies here and not worry about the king being upset with him for spilling blood when he was ant to be here only to speak on behalf of his king.

"I won’t snoop," Rose replied.

"Good. Though there isn’t a guard outside your door does not an that you are not being watched. Where is that knife you had?" Zayne questioned, searching for the little thing that could not do much damage.

Rose didn’t know if she should share what she had done but then again, with the blood in her room and Jonathan having a nasty wound that wasn’t there before, it was easy to guess what she had done. "Soone tried to hurt

so I used it."

"You hurt soone with that little thing? Well done," Zayne applauded her.

Rose wasn’t expecting a complint for hurting soone. "You are giving

a complint for injuring soone?"

It was the strangest thing she had ever heard.

"It was your life or his. Most people don’t have it in them to fight back. Do you want

to scold you for fighting back? Wouldn’t that be silly?" Zayne asked.

"It would be," Rose softly answered. It was just that she had never reached the point of being able to stab soone and after doing it, it was hard to settle with the fact she could have taken soone’s life.

Jonathan would have deserved to die but she had yet to get over what she did. She always thought herself prepared to kill soone if needed but the thoughts that followed weren’t pleasant. It made her feel more of a monster and Rose hated it because Jonathan was deserving of death.

Zayne could not understand her. She was the most confusing person he t since he ca to this land. "You seem to be the one that everyone wants. There was a soldier who wanted to chase you but I stopped him. It looked like you two recognised each other. Is he one of your admirers?"

Rose was stuck on Zayne revealing that he had stopped Mathias. "You followed

from the storage room?"

"No. I couldn’t go around the front of the storage room so I went that way and found you squeezing yourself through the gate. Fear not as you do not have another stalker to add to your list. Now, answer my question," said Zayne.

"He is not one of my admirers. He is not anything," Rose smiled.

Zayne noticed how the smile didn’t reach her eyes. There wasn’t any warmth to it. She would have been useful if she had so sort of relationship with those soldiers. Rose ran so she couldn’t be on good terms with the man he saw going after her.

"If you recall that he is sothing, please inform . I might have so use for you that will give you so money in return. Nothing that would need you eting with him," Zayne quickly added to end the fear she showed.

For so reason, Rose reminded him of a helpless bunny surrounded by predators. In his way, she should run away from him as well.

"I’ve kept you from getting rest long enough. Excuse ," he said, leaving her once more.

Rose flinched when the door closed. Nothing had changed though she was outside of the brothel and she didn’t think it ever would so she went to the door to lock it. Anyone could have the key but she felt safer knowing that she had locked it.

Rose looked around the large room that was more than enough for her. "It is only for a mont," she reminded herself, not wanting to get used to this.

...

Away from the soldier’s camp, Graham sat with a half-empty bottle in his hands as he listened to his guard’s report of where Rose might be. It was the fourth bottle he got his hands on since he was inford that Rose was missing.

"A fire and then Rose goes missing. It is not a re coincidence," Graham spoke up, his words dragging as he wasn’t in his right mind. "She calls for a man in town and then she goes missing. Do they take

for fools?"

Graham didn’t think Rose was a fool to run away from him when she knew that she belonged to him and him only. She made a few attempts to run from him but never ran out of the brothel since the mistake she made when she was young.

Soone else had stolen his thing. The woman he had made clear would only belong to him. Should he have marked his na on her head or all over her body for these fools to understand?

"We searched nearby and questioned everyone about where they last saw her. We have not found out why there was blood on her floor-"

"I told you not to co to

unless you found sothing or found her!" Graham yelled, throwing the bottle at the fool before him.

Graham stood up, his body swaying because of his drunken state. "Find her before the day ends or I will have your head. Soone ca in here and stole what belongs to ! I will not have the town mocking . Find a soldier nad Mathias and ask if he was here last night."

Graham didn’t find it to be a re coincidence that the king’s soldiers ca here and Rose suddenly went missing. The young boy who slipped his fingers years ago returned and thought he could steal from him.

"I own that bastard so bring him to ," said Graham.

"Yes, Master Graham."

Graham was yet to have Rose after waiting all these years. If he couldn’t have her then he was not going to allow another to have her. Once she ca back, she would not see the light of day as she would be chained to his bed.