Chapter 39: Chapter 39Finn closed the door to give Zayne the privacy he needed. "You have got to stop forcing yourself to be in places where you are not wanted, Lucy. He only wanted to share something small with me. Doing this will just get you on his bad side."

    Lucy stepped out of the spot she found to hide. "I am not forcing myself to be anywhere. He is behaving quite strangely and it started when that woman came here. You should have seen her trying to seduce him."

    Lucy liked Zayne because he had never shown to be easily influenced by someone so it took a special kind of woman to change him and from what she saw so far, those types of women were here.

    Lucy enjoyed seeing Zayne return without Rose but his long absence from the camp scared her. What had he done when he was alone in the carriage with Rose? Where had he dropped her off? She had many questions that needed answers.

    Finn laughed. Zayne didn’t know anything about the growing problem he was going to have to face again. "I already know not to believe your point of view. You’re jealous so you are going to twist what you saw to your liking to make her the villain. I know women well and I know you."

    Finn didn’t see Zayne allowing a woman who just wanted to seduce him inside the camp unless he had some use for her. Lucy was getting ahead of herself.

    "I am a woman. You didn’t need to separate me and women. I know what I saw when I entered the room Zayne gave to her. She was trying to seduce him and strangely, he seemed to have fallen for it. We must be careful," said Lucy, sticking to her defence that she was looking out for Zayne.

    Lucy balled up her fists. If only Zayne hadn’t been present when Rose was caught wandering near their camp she would have thrown Rose in a cell right away. Lucy was the one to know women well, not Finn. She knew how they wanted to throw themselves at Zayne’s feet.

    Finn started to enjoy the show since he didn’t get to see Lucy’s jealous side so often. "No, you must be careful. I understand how lovely it would be to marry a prince and a general but if you want to keep your place in this army, I suggest that you stop bothering him."

    "I don’t need your advice nor pity. I am doing my job of being concerned for him. We must be vigilant as they could be sending spies at any time to harm him," Lucy said, looking away from Finn so he wouldn’t read her like a book.

    She didn’t have anything to be jealous about. Real or not, her name had made it on a list of women many thought would be picked to become Zayne’s wife. A little whore from this land was not going to change that.

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    "I do not!" Lucy interjected.

    ’Then it is purely your jealousy that has you thinking this woman would get the best of him. While it is true we need to be wary, Zayne let her stay here so there has to be a good reason. We are not to question it. Just do as you are told and move. I’d hate to see you pack your bags and go home alone. Imagine the ridicule. The anger your father would let loose," said Finn.

    Finn did not want to see Lucy make a fool out of herself over something so small. If Zayne was interested in marrying her, he would have asked for her hand a long time ago to end all the questioning about when he could get married.

    "As I expected, speaking to you is useless. I will speak to him in the morning to make things right. At least we have that woman out of here. Now we can relax," Lucy said, turning around to go back to her room.

    "You know Lucy, if you had your mind made up that her presence here would stop you from getting the chance to marry Zayne, then you didn’t have much of a chance from the beginning, but what do I know right? I want to see this woman everyone spoke of. She must be something special to have gotten his attention," said Finn.

    Lucy didn’t like that now Finn was interested in the outsider. What would it take for these men to stop thinking about sleeping with someone and have common sense? There wasn’t anything special about Rose. Not even her dress was special.

    It was a silly trick in Lucy’s opinion to have to act like you needed a dress just to be naked before Zayne. She could have pulled that trick to seduce him but she would not be so low.

    It annoyed her further to hear Finn whistling as he walked ahead of her. She was the only one serious about this.

    With Finn out of sight, Lucy changed her direction so she could look at Zayne’s door. Now would be a good time to speak to him since he was alone and he didn’t sound angry earlier but something was warning her to leave.

    "Let it go by for a few days," Lucy advised herself.

    Lucy had no choice but to continue on her way to her room. She could relax now that Rose was no longer near Zayne. "The king must know of this," she decided.

    The king’s next letter should snap Zayne out of what he was feeling now.

    Inside Zayne’s bedroom, he leaned on a counter as water ran for his bath. After being around Rose for so many hours, he couldn’t help looking at the things around him differently. Rose was interested in everything she came across. Interested in things he saw daily but didn’t think they were important.

    "She should be asleep," Zayne said, hoping that she was.

    Despite their disinterest in her, his guards should know to keep her safe until the day he returned there. His only concern was Rose getting some sleep instead of staying awake because of the sounds she would hear.

    Rather than the small knife he had given her, he should have left a sword with her.

    "Ha," Zayne chuckled at the idea of Rose holding a sword. She would be able to stop anyone trying to harm her by entertaining them with the funny sight of her trying to be scary.

    As cute as the sight of it might be, the little bunny might have a terrible bite if teased too much.

    There was something good to await the next time he left the camp.