Chapter 88: Chapter 88The next day, Rose arrived at the camp with Finn who was sent to bring her. Rose said her goodbyes to Janice and even the two guards though they were not eager to return her goodbyes.

    "What will happen to Soren and Brian while we are away? What if there is danger at the house?" Rose asked, worried for the safety of everyone they left behind.

    Finn got off the horse first and offered his hand to help Rose down. "They will be heading to the docks after we depart as our ships need to move, but they will return the same day as other soldiers need to come to guard Zayne’s things. Not everyone at this camp is going out of town."

    "I see. So Janice will not be alone for long. Where should I put my bags?" Rose asked, jumping down from the horse. She looked around at the many carts already filled with bags.

    "You can ask Zayne that when you see him. I had bad luck not to be present the day you were caught running near our camp. Now I am your guard so it all worked out. You have another guard you will meet in the morning. She must be resting now," said Finn.

    "She? Why must I have two guards? I will stay close to you or Zayne so no one else must be troubled to watch over me," Rose said, mistaking the woman Finn spoke of to be Lucy.

    She did not want to hear being called a whore again and she did not want to be so near to anyone who felt something for Zayne.

    "I will not find myself in trouble," Rose promised.

    Finn untied Rose’s two bags from the horse and carried them toward the front door.

    "It is not you that he is worried about. It is the people around you and Zayne has been trying to get Mary to bond with the other soldiers but it has not happened. We’re hoping that you can at least get her to speak to you. She’s one of the few women with us. It has to be hard for her to be around so many men. So alone," Finn said, trying hard to get Rose to pity Mary.

    Rose understood why it would be hard for Mary to fit in. Rose was a bit relieved to know that she wasn’t the only one who would be a little bit uncomfortable being surrounded by so many men. If she tried her best, she could have a friend who understood what she felt.

    "I will try to be close to her," Rose answered, agreeing to it. Helping Mary would be helping Zayne in a way.

    "Wonderful. Zayne would be happy to hear that. He decided to have dinner with you alone just for tonight and then he will properly introduce you to the others in the morning. If you want to ditch him and come have dinner with me since I am more fun, you can come too. I am more fun right?" Finn asked.

    Rose could only smile since she didn’t know what to make of Finn yet. He had a warm personality that was inviting which helped her to not worry on the ride here. She didn’t think Zayne was funny and she was yet to hear Finn tell a funny joke.

    "Leave her be."

    Rose looked up the stairs where Zayne stood.

    "Come here, Rose."

    Rose turned to Finn first to take her bags from him. "Thank you for your help. I will see you in the morning."

    "Right," Finn replied, placing his hands in his pockets. He would get her to admit it when Zayne was not around. "Where is Liam?" He wondered, leaving the couple to find his friend. S~ea??h the N?vel?ire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    Rose hurried up the stairs so she would not keep Zayne waiting. "Good evening, Zayne. They are not heavy," Rose said after she caught him looking down at the bags. There wasn’t much to pack other than her clothes, the little money she had left back, and a few fruits Janice gave her to eat in her room.

    Zayne still took the bags from Rose to carry them to the room she previously used. "Dinner will start shortly and then you should get some rest as we must head out at dawn. Do not stay up late like you normally do and please refrain from going outside to look at the sky."

    "I know. I only did that because it was quiet at home. At your home," Rose corrected herself. "I am not a fool to do that when there are so many unfamiliar people here."

    Rose hadn’t lost her sense of danger. She would not walk around unless she was with Zayne or her guards. Nothing was worth seeing that she would put herself in danger and need someone to help her.

    "Finn informed me that there will be a woman to guard me. I will do my best to get her to bond with me. I can only imagine how hard it must be to travel with so many men. Not because they would do anything to her," Rose said, not wanting it to come off she thought all of them were bad. "I mean that she cannot talk about certain things to anyone."

    "It can be both. Should anyone say or do anything that makes you feel uncomfortable, let me know of it right away so I can send them back on the ships. I do not tolerate that kind of behaviour in my group. Keep in mind that it would upset me if you stayed quiet with anyone being rude to you," said Zayne.

    Rose looked down at the floor. "I don’t want it to look like I am always running to you. Besides, I am used to ignoring when someone says something rude. There doesn’t need to be a response every time."

    Rose thought of her fights with some of the women back in the brothel. When she responded to them, they got excited knowing they had upset her but when Rose was silent, she saw how it angered them. They were only wasting their breaths as Rose had other things to worry about.

    "If someone doesn’t like me, I would rather they voice it than keep it hidden so I don’t make the mistake of getting close to them. I can take anything said about me. I’ve spent my life getting used to it so I have a skill of ignoring it. What hurts more is finding out someone didn’t care for you the way you thought they did," said Rose.

    She hoped that Zayne had not ordered the soldiers to be kind to her.

    "Still, if someone troubles you by doing something you do not like, come to me. Words you can ignore but not everything else. Have you made any progress in remembering your past?" Zayne asked.

    "I don’t know what they are but many white flowers are growing in a field and there are a few tall trees around. I remember a small hill with a tree at the top of it. As soon as someone calls out my name and I turn around, the dream ends," Rose said, disappointed that she didn’t see more.

    "I got a glimpse of my dress but I cannot make out if it was old or new. It is hard," Rose said, touching her head as a headache started to affect her. She only saw a small part to know the dress was pink.

    "You’ve done well, Rose. Remembering small details is better than nothing," Zayne said, wanting to pat her back but he refrained from doing so.