The Forgotten Princess Rose
Chapter 219

Chapter 219: Chapter 219

"Oh," Rose’s shoulders dropped due to disappointment.

Rose thought Alexander would understand her position in all of this and never ask anything of this from her. She couldn’t be nice to Mathias anymore. She couldn’t be stuck in a dreamland with Alexander, believing that Mathias would change now.

Mathias would only promise to give up on trying to kill her because Zayne captured him. As soon as Mathias was freed and well on his feet, who was to say he wouldn’t come after her again?

"I can’t do this. I do not like your choice and you do not like mine. You will always be my friend but if Mathias is freed today and he remains by your side then I cannot be near you. I don’t want to see him. We are not the children from the past anymore," Rose said.

They all had to let go of those memories and accept that they had all changed.

Alexander didn’t want his friendship with Rose to end. They were just getting close again after eight years away from each other. "Don’t do this to me, Rose."

Rose released a dry laugh. "Do this to you? You’re the one putting me in a bad position."

"No," Alexander denied her claim. "He is the one who placed you in this position to see Mathias like that. He knew my answer about punishing Mathias and still decided to bring you here to show my answer. He did this."

Rose couldn’t argue that Zayne didn’t bring her here to show her how Alexander would react. "I know it wasn’t right to ambush you but I do not like what you are asking of me. He didn’t try to kill you so it is easy for you to forgive him."’

"I am not telling you that you cannot be close to Mathias. I am only saying that I do not want to be around you if he is near. Each chance he got to hurt me he has taken it. I cannot give him another chance to try hurting me. I can’t so please leave me alone," Rose pleaded.

"It is between the three of us. I can-"

"I don’t have it in me to punish him and you will not be able to bring yourself to do it. Zayne is doing it in my stead. He’s taking care of a threat before one of us gets hurt," Rose said, a feeling of disappointment growing the more she had to explain to Alexander.

Rose understood his bond with Mathias which was why it did not hurt her that Alexander wanted to free himm. It hurt that Alexander was dismissive of how much Mathias had done. They were far past the kick now.

Alexander shook his head. He didn’t see it as Zayne’s place to step in when he could deal with Mathias. "I know Mathias better than anyone which makes me the best person to deal with him."

"Then you should have found him first," Rose said with no malice or judgement behind her words.

From what she knew, Zayne was searching for Mathias but it wasn’t as much as he was searching for Queen Lilian. Freedom was before Mathias and even the danger of Zayne’s army taking over the kingdom, but Mathias ignored it and continued to follow her.

Alexander took a step back, hurt by Rose’s words. She was starting to sound like Zayne. "He has gotten far in your head to the point you are sounding like him. I am aware that I was late.’

Rose sighed as Alexander twisted her words. "This is not about Zayne. These are my thoughts. Zayne doesn’t get inside my head about you. I am aware that he is not fond of you but you are not fond of him as well. I don’t want to argue with you."

"I don’t want Mathias to die," said Alexander.

Alexander looked over Rose at Zayne not standing far away leaning on a wall and watching what he had caused. Rose should have never been here for this but Zayne was trying to get in between their friendship so he did this. Rose was too blind to see it.

"This isn’t like you," Alexander said, knowing Rose was just following Zayne. "You don’t like violence. You would want a different punishment for him."

Rose couldn’t believe Alexander was not listening to what she said. They were talking about a man who wanted to kill her. Rose didn’t know what else to say.

"This is me. I do not know what you have been seeing me as while you were here but this is me, Alexander. I don’t care for violence, that is true but if needed, I know it must happen. I have slept with a knife in my hands many times to protect myself. I have long woken up from thinking you can just talk to others to make them leave you alone," said Rose.

Rose continued, "I am not how you remember me. That little girl has grown up and changed for the better. You need to see me as I am now because I cannot go back to being how I was in the past. I don’t want to and I will not do it to please you."

Rose had come too far to take too many steps back to be the girl Alexander remembered her as. She didn’t see him as the boy from her past. The boy from her past only stayed in her memories as something she cherished.

"I am not asking you to change, only to reconsider the methods used to hurt him. I can punish him for what he did to you. Believe me, I will since I love you. I know what Mathias did was wrong. I will not turn a blind eye to that but he was our friend. Other than you, he is all I ever had," Alexander said, still unable to cut ties with Mathias.

They had been a family in those eight years. Alexander wanted to scold and hit Mathias for his actions toward Rose but he could never try to kill him.

"That is fine with me but I am only telling you that I don’t want to be around him. I am tired of going around in circles with you. You must understand my feelings just as I have understood your close ties to him. I must go," Rose said, desperately wanting to get away from Alexander.

She expected Alexander to be more understanding of her feelings but he wasn’t. Rose needed a break from him.

"My parents will be worried since I have not returned so excuse me," Rose said, walking around Alexander.

Liam followed Rose since he was to escort her back to the Ambroses.

"Wait," Alexander reached for her hand. "I’m sorry."

"What for?" Rose asked, not knowing which part of their talk he was apologising for.

Search the lightnovelworld.cc website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.