The Forgotten Princess Rose
Chapter 130

Chapter 130: Chapter 130

"What has him in such a good mood?" Liam questioned, confused by Zayne’s demeanour. "I wouldn’t place coming to the palace to make him happy."

"Or is it leaving me in the carriage last night and lying to Rose? It’s obvious that something happened between him and you know who. Maybe a kiss. I don’t think it is anything more since Zayne has been acting like a pathetic fool who doesn’t know- I am shutting up," Finn said, folding his lips after Zayne stopped.

"Trouble," Liam noticed as a soldier was waiting for them. "Just the one? All it took was one festival for the king to decrease the soldiers greeting us?"

"Go ahead," Zayne instructed his group.

Alexander stepped away from the wall, going toward Zayne. He wasn’t used to knowing that Rose found shelter with the outsiders but he had to play nice if he ever wanted to visit her. "How is she?"

"Will your princess not find it suspicious that you are not by her side? What if she were to see the two of us together?" Zayne inquired, looking around for Kiara.

"I ask you how Rose is," Alexander replied, ignoring Zayne’s interest in the princess. "I need to know about her dress and if she needs another. I have money to give her."

Zayne was unimpressed by the small pouch in Alexander’s hand. "I have all the money she will need-"

"I do not care what money you have. It is for Rose to accept or decline," Alexander interjected, pushing the small bag against Zayne’s chest. "Give it to her."

Zayne licked his lips, looking down at the wrong move made by Alexander. "You are lucky that I don’t want you to meet her with a bruised face. Careful with how you touch me, bastard."

"Bastard?" Alexander scoffed. "You know nothing about my relationship with Rose."

"And you know nothing about my relationship with her," Zayne retorted. "And that mere that you don’t must be eating you up inside. I already bought her a dress to make up for your mistake along with the princess. No need to thank you."

Alexander thought Zayne to be crazy. "Thank you? I had no part in her dress being ruined. I was guarding the princess as you might have forgotten."

"Not that. How you came to Rose while knowing the princess was near," Zayne corrected the misunderstanding. "That was your mistake."

Alexander stepped forward, his dislike of Zayne growing. "I finally found her after looking for her for days. How was I to stay away from her when the woman from my past was right there? How was I to let her know that I was near if I didn’t approach her?"

"Find another way to speak to her when the jealous royal isn’t near. I don’t know much about your past with Rose but what you should know is that she doesn’t need a princess coming after her. If you plan to come to my camp to see her, do not be followed or I will not let you see her," said Zayne.

"Does Rose know you are being this way? Dictating what those around her can and cannot do?" Alexander asked, holding back from grabbing Zayne’s shirt.

"She knows that you and I will speak. I won’t be getting in the way of you two reuniting but what I will not allow is you dragging Rose into your problems with the princess. Be careful with how you approach Rose. Now, out of the way," Zayne said, waiting for Alexander to move first.

"You listen to me. I don’t give a damn about what you and the king are planning. If you so much as lay a finger on her, I will kill you and send your body back on your ships for your kingdom to see. I am coming for her," Alexander said, taking a step back before they were noticed. "How could I leave her with a man so quick to aim his sword at a maid?

"You’re almost as stupid as the other one," Zayne concluded, referring to Mathias. "Just be a good friend and don’t bring trouble to her life or it will be you be the one I point my sword to. Are you going to move or must I move you?’

Zaynes looked away from Alexander to the other fool approaching like a raging bull. "It’s my lucky day."

Mathias misunderstood Zayne and Alexander being so close. "You get away from him, you bastard!"

Alexander put his hand out, blocking Mathias from doing something stupid. They couldn’t be saved if the king were to find out they fought with his guests. "The general was just leaving to see the king."

Zayne smiled solely to piss off Mathias.

"I wouldn’t smile if I were you. You don’t have the others to protect you this time. I would like to get even with you for what you did," Mathias said, his right hand closing to a fist as he resisted hitting Zayne.

"I’ve got the idiot who kicked her and the fool who couldn’t remember where to look. I wonder which one of you will go first," Zayne said but his gaze fixated on Mathias revealing who he wanted first.

The coward that kicked Rose was finally close yet Zayne had to be on his best behaviour so he could travel with Rose tomorrow.

"You have her," Mathias realised. He had been right to send Graham to the soldiers. "No wonder you’ve been talking about slaves. She has an owner looking for her."

Mathias froze knowing he made the mistake of bringing this up before Alexander. They weren’t back on speaking terms yet. "He is the reason you could not find her," he placed the blame on Zayne.

Alexander grabbed a handful of Mathias’s shirt. "Do not speak to me about who had her. I know about you kicking her."

Mathias shoved Alexander’s hand away. "I didn’t know who she was then. A whore was coming to me-"

Mathias staggered to the left, wounded by Zayne’s fist connecting to his face. "You foreign bastard. Let go of me!" Mathias yelled, frustrated that Alexander wasn’t defending him after he had been hit. "Despite our differences, I am still like a brother to you. If he had hit you, I would have defended you."

"You deserve a good hit for what you did," Alexander replied. He only wasn’t pleased that Zayne was the one to do it.

Mathias stepped away from the two men who must have lost their minds. "I thought there was only one fool but there’s another. Let her sink the two of you. I don’t care."

Alexander had more to say about Mathias’s reunion with Rose and to give Mathias a taste of his fist, but first, he had to deal with Zayne.

Zayne was distracted by his knuckles turning red. It had to go back to normal before Rose started to scold him for this. "She told you that he kicked her. Did you ever confront him? Your brother," he said mockingly.

"That is not for you to-"

"You couldn’t find her in town and you won’t stand up to him. I don’t like you," Zayne admitted. "You’ll bring her nothing but trouble. Unfortunately, it is not up to me to send you away. Try not to bring her any more trouble. A punch will be the last thing you’ll need to worry about if you cause her harm."

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