Chapter 42: Chapter 42Alexander felt better to have Mathias back on his side. It didn’t feel good when they argued and they should be on good terms when they found Rose so their reunion would be sweet.

    "It would be good if we could go to the brothel if it opens tonight, but we need to speak to the commander. We are to go to the palace and the foreigners will be there. He expects us to see him speak about safety measures with the foreigners in the palace," said Mathias.

    Alexander didn’t think the meeting would take long so he wasn’t concerned about missing going to the brothel when it opened. "We should speak to him as soon as we are done here to get this over with."

    "I cannot speak to him right now. I already have something to do right now. An order that I can’t ignore so please speak with him alone and then I will come back to join you tonight. Do not leave without me. Excuse me," Mathias said, hurrying off to leave the camp.

    Alexander ignored his need to wash up and followed Mathias. Mathias should never forget how close they had become over the years for him to know when Mathias was hiding something. He ranked over Mathias in the army and knew that there wasn’t an order given to Mathias.

    Alexander had been trying not to follow Mathias around as he wanted to trust his friend. He wanted to trust that Mathias wasn’t hiding anything concerning Rose, but he could not. Especially with the answers Mathias was giving him before now. S~ea??h the novel(F~)ire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    Alexander stayed close behind Mathias but not enough to be spotted. He hoped that Mathias wasn’t going anywhere near a brothel or somewhere suspicious. For the sake of their friendship, Mathias should not be going where Rose might be.

    Mathias got on his horse and began the journey to the brothel to speak to Graham. He could not find Rose and he was not the one who had taken her. His search for her had to end now and it should be concluded that Rose was now dead. That was the only way he could get Alexander to lose interest in searching for Rose.

    "That fucking whore," he cursed Rose once more. She was ruining everything.

    Their return to this town could have been much better if she had never shown up. Why couldn’t she have stayed in her place?

    When he got his hands on her, he was going to kill her. Every day, every hour, the mistake of not taking her off somewhere instead of kicking her grew to haunt him. He should have thought about the headache he would have to face with Rose recognising him.

    When Mathias arrived at the brothel, he quickly tied his horse and then made his way inside the brothel in search of Graham.

    "Where is the owner?" He asked a woman walking by.

    Silvia inspected the appearance of the frantic man who entered the brothel. She had seen his face somewhere. "He left a while ago and I don’t know how long he will be gone for. He doesn’t tell us his business. If you are here for a woman, it will be more during this time."

    "Fuck," Mathias cursed. How could he relax if he knew that Graham was not going to be here tonight? "Has your doors been closed recently?"

    Silvia laughed since that would never happen. "Why would our doors be closed when our owner loves making money? The brothel is always open and my door will be open tonight. You are a soldier, aren’t you?"

    Now she remembered where he had seen him. He had come to see Graham and the day she went for a stroll through the market, she had seen him riding in with the other soldiers. A man like him should have plenty to spend. Plenty to give to her in secret.

    Mathias had no interest in her. He wanted to know why Alexander had lied about the doors being closed when they weren’t. Something was wrong here. The brothel was even open in the day so Alexander had lied.

    "Why don’t I find you something to drink?" Silvia clung to his arm, not warning him to leave. She needed a man like him around to protect her after what she saw had become of Jonathan.

    If Graham were to know she had helped Jonathan find his way to Rose’s room, she was as good as dead or worse. He could make her take customers who were hardly able to afford to be here. Those men were sometimes the worst.

    Mathias moved from her hold. Enjoying time with a woman was not of any use to him unless she knew something about Rose. "Wait. Do you know anything about a woman named Rose? She was once here."

    Silvia’s smile disappeared at the mention of Rose. Rose wasn’t here anymore but she still had to constantly hear about her. Men who learned that Rose had disappeared wanted to find her before Graham did. They had always had their eyes set on Rose so now that she was missing they thought this was their chance.

    ’I hope the cruellest one finds her,’ Silvia wished. It wasn’t fair for Rose’s only customer to be Graham and now she got to run away. Silvia was here longer than Rose so she thought that if anyone got to be free first, it should be her. ’He fell for Rose too?’

    "I do not want to speak about Rose. We were not close so I do not have any answers for you. When you are interested in being with a good woman, come to me. I will make it worth your time," Silvia offered.

    Mathias found her to be interesting since she didn’t seem to like Rose. This woman might be worth speaking to. With all the stress that he was under, it couldn’t be so bad for him to take a break just this once. "Prepare a room for me."