Chapter 43
Mathias should have guessed sooner that Rose would have some enemies here who would be happy to share where she had run off to. If she was ever meeting with a man in secret or simply had a friend she made plans to run away with the women here would know about it. He should have spoken to the other women here from the beginning.
Silvia clung to Mathias’s arm once more. Though she didn’t know why he would want Rose, what mattered now was that she was on his arm and he wanted a room. She could switch his attention from Rose to herself easily.
"Are you one of her lovers?" Silvia asked, playing the game to sway his attention to her.
"She had lovers?" Mathias replied. If only Alexander would be here to listen to what was being said and snap out of this. Why did he concern himself with a woman already taken by other men?
"Of course she did. This is a brothel after all. I mustn’t say too much since she was Master Graham’s favourite woman here," Silvia said, touching her mouth to show that she could not speak.
Mathias knew just what he needed to get her to speak more. "I can pay you handsomely. Everything you say will be kept between us. Rose crossed me a few years ago and I need to have her pay for it."
Silvia smiled as she had struck gold to come across a man who wanted to harm Rose. She led Mathias to their room so they could speak in private. With Jonathan dead, she didn’t have anyone else who might be so bold as to steal Rose from Graham. Should Rose step foot back inside the brothel, Silvia wanted this man with her to take her away.
"Rose has always been his favourite woman. None of the women here can tell you if he bedded her but we do know she has spent hours in closed spaces with him and then runs off to her room. There are plenty of men who come in here and fall for her face. So many of them are searching for her now," Silvia revealed.
Knowing this, Silvia thought this was the reason Graham was not in the brothel at the moment. He wanted to find his precious Rose before another man got his hands on her.
"Did she entertain the men who took notice of her?" Mathias asked, finding all the more reason for Alexander to not find Rose.
"Of course she did. All the women here love men who shower them with attention especially when these men bring gifts. The night she disappeared, she had a man in her bedroom. She was not to take anyone else but Graham into her bed so he killed the man. Poor soul," Silvia pretended to mourn.