Chapter 22
Graham didn’t need to rely on the soldier who was about to become a slave to bring back Rose, especially when he still believed that Mathias was the one behind Rose’s disappearance. "And how do you intend to find her if you don’t know where she is? If you are hiding her, bring her to me now."
"I don’t have her. Last night when I came to the brothel, there was a fire that I helped to put out then I left. When I came, the fire had already started. You can ask the soldiers that I arrived with. They were with me all day since the incident when I kicked her," Mathias said.
He could tell that Graham believed he had a hand in setting fire to the brothel. Mathias wished Graham would quickly understand that he wasn’t foolish to bring attention to himself.
Graham placed the pipe in his mouth. "Fortunately for you, I believe you, but I don’t trust you. You show up and then she goes missing. I don’t believe in coincidences. Where is that other fellow? The one that wouldn’t listen to me and tried to get in my way from seeing her?"
Graham remembered the shorter of the two boys to be the one Rose was closer to. If anyone were to have helped Rose slip away, it would have been that other one. He should have ordered his guards back then to hunt down these two and not return until they found them.
"He doesn’t have her and he doesn’t know that she’s still alive. When I came here last night, there were some foreigners here. Why don’t you check if they have her?" Mathias asked.
Graham thought about it. He had not sent his men to look there. The foreigners did not have any reason to steal from him, but he couldn’t dismiss how Zayne would not keep his eyes off of Rose. Those foreigners would have to be fools to come here and steal from him.
Zayne had left rather abruptly right after the fire started. He had already paid for rooms and did not use them. The one thing that swayed Graham away from thinking that Zayne had taken her was his new belief that Zayne was interested in men.
"I passed a few of them on my way in-"