Chapter 297: A Voice
Thomas led the way, speeding through the open gates. She was right behind and also urged her horse on. However, as she was about to pass through the gates suddenly stopped.
She heard it before anyone else—loud yelling from behind. She stopped her horse before she even thought about it, halting right in the middle of the open gates, blocking the path of the rest of the men.
Loud grunts and complaints could be heard as the men tried hard not to bump into her at her abrupt stop. She heard a few curses but Rose didn’t care, she had heard something.
Thomas noticed she stopped and turned his head toward her. At first, he only slowed his horse, but when he noticed she was indeed not moving, he turned his horse around; he had rode some distance away from them.
"What are you doing?" he asked, but he didn’t sound angry—rather, he sounded worried.
"I heard a voice," she said, turning back, but all she could see were the men she was stopping from going through the gates and the impatient guards who wanted to close the gates after they had gone through.
"A voice?" Thomas asked, his voice even softer.
"Yes," Rose said and tried to stare behind the men, but she couldn’t see a thing. It didn’t help that they weren’t even stepping backwards so she could confirm.
She turned to see Thomas looking at her with a sympathetic expression. "If you’ve changed your mind, I understand," he said.
Rose frowned, annoyed that he didn’t seem to believe her, but even as she felt herself get angry, the feeling dissipated.