Chapter 52
"Rose, there you are! Did you have to show him the work you did?" Janice asked, looking away from her pots to Rose.
"I did," Rose answered.
"I think you have done plenty since the day I arrived so he shouldn’t have any problems. I would like for him to start speaking to those two guards outside for the way they look at you. We might be from different lands but that war has nothing to do with us. We didn’t start it," Janice said, wanting to hit the two men with her wooden spoon.
"We shouldn’t bring it up to him. I can take their stares. It is not like they insult me out loud or try to trouble me. I like that they avoid me," Rose said, not wanting the guards to be upset for telling on them.
Rose had dealt with far worse so she appreciated that Brian and Soren were ignoring her since they didn’t like her. She had worried about how they would treat Janice but they shared small talk with her because they liked the food.
"Still, if I see their faces twisted with hate when you pass by I might not be able to stop myself from throwing a spoon. You are too sweet for those rotten men to be troubling you, but Rose, why are you here?" Janice asked, puzzled by Rose’s visit.
Rose tilted her head slightly, confused by Janice’s question. "Am I not to be here? I always come to see you when you are making dinner. He is preparing his bath-"
"You have left him to prepare his bath?!" Janice exclaimed. "This really is your first time working as a maid. You are to do that for him and prepare the clothes he will wear. The bathroom will also need to be wiped as there will be water from where he walked. It is only you here to do these things."
"He said that he has his hands to do such things so I left him. Was it a mistake?" Rose asked, fearing she had made a big mistake.