Chapter 47: Chapter 47"It’s a bit windy today, isn’t it? It’s good we got up to wash our garments now. I noticed some shirts in your room. Did you get them from the market?" Janice asked, unable to forget the shirts belonging to a man in Rose’s room.

    She didn’t mean to pry but it was hard to ignore what she saw. The guards didn’t speak to her or Rose so they shouldn’t have given their shirts to Rose though she was the maid.

    "They were a gift since I didn’t have a dress to sleep in. They are of too good quality for me to just use them," Rose answered. She still thought of giving Zayne back his shirts since she had not used any of them.

    Rose had only tried one one to see the difference in size between her and Zayne.

    "Well, I certainly understand not wanting to ruin something of good quality but if they were given to you as a gift then I don’t see why you cannot use them. Use one at a time and when it looks ruined then you can start wearing another. Think of how you are wasting something good someone gave to you with good intentions," said Janice.

    Janice would love to get her hands on good shirts to change them into something else. If Rose would allow her, she would add designs to the shirts to make them look less for a man.

    "I hadn’t thought about it like that. I will be careful with them and use them as they were meant to be used. They are quite large, but I think it would be wrong to have you change the size. What if he were to want them back? I cannot afford to replace them," Rose said, still worried about the price.

    Janice helped Rose put up the last of the dresses and then said, "Then I remind him that the shirts were a gift. Wear them as you see fit. Now, let’s go inside so I can get started on dinner and you can finish putting away what is in the crate by the door."

    Rose walked beside Janice back to the door. It was a good change of pace to talk to Janice instead of being here with the two guards who still looked at her with so much hate. "Janice, does it not scare you to work with someone who is not from this land? Many are still avoiding the foreigners."

    "It does scare me a little, but I’ve worked all my life. There are kind and bad people from our land. At the first sign of danger, I will leave this job. I knew it would be a quiet job since no one wanted to come around the enemy and I like working alone. I cannot leave now that I know you are here," Janice said, not leaving unless Rose came with her.

    Rose looked down at the ground. "I wonder if this is what it feels like to have a mother," she accidentally said out loud. Rose’s eyes widened as she realised her mistake. Janice already had a child, and it wasn’t long since they met. "I’m sorry. Please forgive me."

    "There is nothing to apologise for, Rose. I find myself caring for you like I once did for my son. I have been thinking that the way I speak to you might upset you, but it warms me to know it was on your mind," said Janice.

    Rose was relieved that Janice was not bothered by what she said. She looked up at the door as she no longer had to hide her face and when she did, she noticed Zayne entering the front door. "He has returned."

    "Who dear?" Janice asked, confused by the man she saw now as he was not the one who hired her.

    "He is our employer," Rose said, going ahead of Janice to see what Zayne needed. "Zayne Hamilton."

    The further she got inside, Rose panicked as she noticed a crate she was yet to empty. Her heart sank when Zayne looked down at it. "No! I was going to move this, but I had to wash dresses. I know my work should come first but-"

    ’Rose, please relax. I cannot keep up with what you say when you speak fast. Not all of us are quick little bunnies," Zayne teased, enjoying how her nose flared like she had become a dragon.

    "I am not a bunny," Rose mumbled. She didn’t want Janice to hear her speaking back to Zayne as she might be scolded. "Janice has been here for two days. We were just about to start dinner and I was to move that crate. I have moved around more than half of your things. Would you like to see it?"

    Zayne looked over Rose’s head at the woman standing behind her. The two seemed to be getting along. His only concern was how she stared at him like she had something important to share. "I would but first, is there something you need to say to me?"

    Rose turned around to face Janice. What was happening with the two of them? She had already done the introductions so it wouldn’t be awkward. Did he want to know what Janice did with the money given to her?

    "Oh no. I was just thinking about my late husband. It is a pleasure to meet the man I will be working for. I will get started on your dinner right away," Janice said, excusing herself to leave the two alone.

    This wasn’t the first time she had witnessed an employer be smitten with one of the maids. She only hoped that Rose wasn’t getting too caught up with a man who had to leave this land one day or that Zayne was not trying to use Rose while he was here. Sear?h the N?vel(F)ire.ηet website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    Janice was quick to notice how innocent Rose was, acting like a child discovering new things based on how Rose acted in the kitchen. She worried about Rose as it seemed she was alone without a family by her side. While it wasn’t her place, she was going to watch over Rose.

    Rose waited for Janice to leave to then say, "Janice is a nice woman. There must be something good about you to remind her of her late husband."

    "Must be something good?" Zayne repeated. "Can’t you think of something for why I would remind her of her husband?"

    Rose thought about it much to Zayne’s dismay as he believed it should be easy to give a reason. "I don’t know what he looks like. You should ask Janice if you are so curious."

    "Is there nothing you can think that would remind her of a good husband?" Zayne asked.

    Rose shook her head as she realised what Zayne was doing. "It is not good to ask for compliments even if you are our employer. Will you be staying here tonight? I do not know which is your room to pay special attention to."

    "If you ask nicely, I might stay. I might need to see if you have broken anything," Zayne joked.

    "Nothing is broken. I picked them up carefully which is why I have not succeeded in moving it all. I can show you all of it if you do not believe me," Rose said, ready to prove him wrong.

    "Then I must stay here tonight to see," Zayne decided.