The Forgotten Princess Rose
Chapter 193

Chapter 193: Chapter 193

’What is that fool doing out here?" Mathias wondered, inspecting the part of town Alexander’s tracks led him to.

Mathias was at a dead end now since anyone he asked about Alexander kept mistaking him for another soldier. He had to go by chance now to see Alexander and Rose who couldn’t be far from Alexander.

Mathias waited patiently for the men he hired to return to him with good news. The sooner this was done the sooner he could return to the palace and be named commander.

Mathias smiled once more, imagining his new life with his title. He always knew the princess would bring good things to his life but the plan had always been for Alexander to make it happen.

"You should have listened to me," Mathias said, a part of him feeling sorry for Alexander. "Look where chasing her had you end up."

Mathias did not regret the decision to abandon Rose. She was like a ship’s anchor holding them down and he was the only one smart enough to realise it.

’Oh, a soldier."

Mathias smiled at the women giggling as they walked by him. They were always interested in men from the army but when they learned he didn’t have a family name worth a pig, they looked away. He knew that would change once he was named commander. He could marry one of the women from a good home and change his life forever.

"I should settle somewhere like this," Mathias considered.

A big home was best suited for him.

Mathias basked in the attention of the young women. He enjoyed the time they were looking for husbands as they were more curious about men. Their curiosity made them easy targets to trap one of them into a marriage but he had failed.

"I depended on him too much," Mathias said, thinking about the time he wasted putting his future in Alexander’s hands.

"Flowers again? What makes you think you will win her over with that? You need to find some jewels if you want to be considered."

Mathias eavesdropped on a conversation between two men standing outside a shop.

"The maid I paid off says she likes flowers."

The man’s friend laughed. "Every maid says that to get money out of fools like you. She’s the daughter of a lord. Why would she want flowers? Something like that might be better suited for her sister. When are they going to debut her? It would be easier for us to wed her and get to the lord’s fortune."

’Fortune?’ Mathias’s eyes lit up. An easy wife was what he needed and the daughter of a lord made it all the better. He was going to aim lower since many nobles wouldn’t be impressed by a commander but if there was something wrong with this daughter, he might have a chance.

"You there, what is this about the lord’s daughter?" Mathias asked, interrupting the conversation.

"Where have you been all this time? Haven’t you heard the lord found his missing daughter? After being away for eight years, she won’t be like her peers and she is above the age a young lady in a noble family would debut. They can’t be picky with her," the stranger revealed.

"Is that so? This land belongs to Lord Ambrose," Mathias recalled. "I didn’t know he had a missing daughter. Thank you for telling me."

The stranger shook his head at another fool thinking they would succeed when many were still trying to court her and failed. "Don’t get so excited. There are rumours she is already taken by the blue-eyed general. He stayed in the lord’s home but no one has seen him as of late."

Mathias’s interest in the lord grew upon hearing that Zayne was around. Why would Zayne come to this part of town to meet with the lord? Was it because the lord and the king were at odds?

’Would the king be interested in this?’ Mathias wondered. Another opportunity to get money was before him.

"But wait, what was he doing with the lord’s daughter? He left Rose already," Mathias laughed, entertained by this.

He knew it couldn’t be true that there was something serious between Rose and Zayne. Mathias couldn’t place why Zayne hid Rose from Graham but now he saw it as Zayne using Rose for her body and then leaving her to go to a lady from a noble family.

"You know the lord’s daughter as well? How many soldiers does she know?" The stranger muttered, second-guessing his interest in Rose because of the soldiers she knew. It was only two but since no one knew her past, it was a little strange.

Mathias was puzzled by the question. "I don’t know his daughter. I am asking you about her."

"You just said her name. The lord’s daughter is Rose. Well, Rosaline but I have heard-"

Mathias grabbed the man’s shoulders. "What did you just say?"

Mathias hoped he had heard it wrong. It could never be that all along Rose was the daughter of the lord. The woman he had kicked and wanted to drag back to Graham couldn’t be the daughter of a lord.

"The lord’s daughter’s name is Rose?" Mathias asked, panicking as the severity of his actions started to kick in.

"She is. Get off of me," the stranger shoved Mathias and walked away with his friend.

Mathias still couldn’t believe it. Rose was an orphan just like him and all the other children they had once been surrounded by. He refused to believe that she was worth something.

He wanted to believe in a coincidence but it was too much for him to dismiss. Zayne had been here, Alexander came here, and the lord’s daughter was named Rose.

"Shit," Mathias cursed. He was dead if Rose ever saw his face and told the lord. "I need to kill her."

Rose needed to die before his interaction with her was revealed not only for the princess but to save himself.

"That fucking bastard knew it," Mathias realised, finally understanding why Alexander was so interested in Rose.

Mathias laughed, thinking himself a fool for not realising how Alexander had tricked him. No wonder Alexander was so quick to give up the princess. Rose had always been in love with him so it was easier for him to wed her and settle in with the lord.

Had Mathias known Rose’s true home his reunion with Rose would have been different. He would have taken her in when he saw her in the market and brought her home.

The lord didn’t have a son so it was likely he would pass on all his wealth to his daughters which meant their husbands would benefit.

"Lord Ambrose’s home," Mathias said, setting his sights there as where to find Rose and Alexander. He still had the men he paid to kill her and this was what the princess wanted.

With Kiara backing him, Mathias knew he was safe.

He was going to ruin Alexander and Rose for stabbing him in the back all along.

"Ha. They don’t know where she came from?" Mathias remembered what the stranger said. "I do," he grinned.

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