Chapter 48: Chapter 48"You didn’t need to do so much in one day but I am impressed. Did Janice or one of the two guards help you to lift anything?" Zayne asked as it was too much for Rose to do alone.

    "No. I didn’t want to trouble Janice and the guards. I emptied what was in the heavy crates before I lifted them. I picked out a small room to place the empty crates so you can use them again when you need to depart for your home. If there is anything you want to change, I can do it right away," Rose said, secretly hoping it was perfect and nothing had to change.

    "It is fine as it is now. What is the noise I am hearing? The cries of an annoying little thing. Did you bring an animal inside my home?" Zayne questioned, his right brow raised.

    Rose looked away from Zayne. It was unfortunate that he hated liars. "A little bird kept falling out of its nest so I placed it near the door. I have been mashing some of my dinner to feed it," Rose answered, leaving out Janice’s involvement in feeding the bird.

    "It seems my home has become a shelter for the pitiful," Zayne said, trying to block out the annoying sound.

    The bird’s days were numbered if it continued to be this loud.

    "It is lucky that I am without my gun-"

    "You would shoot a bird?" Rose asked, horrified. She viewed Zayne differently for being so cruel as to want to shoot a small bird. "It is harmless and needs someone to look after it until it learns to fly away."

    "You should have left it where it fell for the mother to return to it or maybe there was a hungry predator that would have taken care of it. Are you thinking of the annoying creature as yourself? Like how you need someone to help you?" Zayne asked.

    "I did not once think of the bird as myself. How could I keep passing by it and leave it be? Only a bad person would think of shooting it because of the noise that it makes. Excuse me, I will put it back in its nest once more," Rose said, slowly backing away from Zayne but then moving quickly when she reached the opened door.

    Zayne knew she was going to speak to him less because of his words. He had not come here to hear something yapping so much but he should have been nicer when speaking about the friend Rose had made.

    Zayne reluctantly followed Rose to her noisy little friend. Though he was walking behind her, Zayne could tell that Rose was still angry with him. It was going to be a long night if they didn’t get over this quickly. S~ea??h the Novёl?ire.n(e)t website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    To think a little noisy bird begging to be fed had become the reason they had stopped talking.

    "Give it here," Zayne said, tired of seeing her try to reach for the messy nest. "Are you certain that it is this nest it came from?"

    "It is the only one around and I am afraid to place it in your hands. What if you were to squeeze it or throw it? I will put it back myself," Rose said, not trusting Zayne to have good intentions.

    "I am taller than you and I would like this to serve as my apology. Give me the bird so I can put it back. We must move fast so its mother doesn’t grow wary of us being near and abandon the bird," Zayne said, holding out his right hand for Rose to give him.

    Rose didn’t trust him with the bird but it would go faster if Zayne helped her. She did not want the mother to abandon the baby. She had seen a bigger bird coming close to where she placed the baby the last two days but it could not fly to join its family.

    Rose reluctantly placed the bird in Zayne’s hands. If he ended up hurting it, she might consider setting his home on fire as he feared.

    She watched from the side as Zayne easily placed the bird back in the nest. She hoped this time one of the birds which cared for the small bird would return.

    Zayne placed the bird on the nest like Rose wanted though he didn’t think it was going to survive if it was away from the nest for so long. "Am I forgiven now?"

    "Maybe if the bird would have relieved itself on your hands. I shouldn’t be upset with my employer. Can I be pointed to your room so I can prepare it for you?" Rose asked, wanting to move on.

    "It is the room that is opposite your own," Zayne answered.

    "What? We are so close," Rose said, surprised by this news. "Why?"

    "I gave you the first room that I thought of. A few of my things are in my room so you cannot expect me to move now and you have already settled into your room. I don’t have a reason to cross over to enter your bedroom without your permission," Zayne reassured Rose.

    The fear was evident across her face. Given that he had twice found her inside a room with Graham, he assumed that it made her more nervous than normal to be in such a close space with a man.

    Rose disliked the closeness of their rooms though Zayne had not shown any intention of forcing himself on her. She was used to terrible things happening when she was close to a man’s room.

    Rose took a deep breath. She could not treat Zayne as though he was Graham or any of the customers who frequented the brothel. She could clean when he wasn’t present in the room, but there was one thing she had to check. "Am I to serve you when you go to your room? Like preparing your bath?’

    "My hands are not broken," Zayne answered.

    It would be a wrong move on his part to have her enter his bedroom while he was there when Rose was still so afraid.

    "You only need to clean it in my absence. I don’t have anyone starting my bath for me or standing around as I get dressed. I like getting dressed alone. Now come inside since the wind is picking up and it is likely to blow one of us away. The little one," Zayne taunted Rose.

    Rose bit her tongue as she was trying to be a respectful maid. She hoped something would hit him on the head to make him shrink a little bit so he could not call her little one.