Chapter 102
"Every time I see you these days, you are moody. More moody than usual. She’s safe with Mary," Finn said, trying to cheer up Zayne. "I don’t know anyone foolish enough to bother Mary so no one will approach Rose. Why don’t you get it over with and tell her that you like her?"
"You want him to tell the woman who was surrounded by men trying to bed her that he likes her already?" Liam asked, wanting to sew Finn’s lips shut. "He has to wait."
"He saved her so doesn’t that-"
"She saved herself," Zayne corrected Finn. "And I told her that I care for her."
Finn couldn’t believe his ears. "You did? Then why wasn’t she uncomfortable around you this morning? She waved goodbye like a wife sending off her husband."
"She misunderstood what I told her," Zayne answered.
"Well, of course she did. Why didn’t you say that you like her instead?" Finn wondered as that would have made everything clear.
"Because she looked afraid and part of me hoped she would misunderstand because she would reject my feelings. It was not the right time to tell her and now is not the right time to speak about Rose. Focus on what is ahead of us," Zayne said, inspecting the palace gates that they entered.
All eyes were on them now that they had arrived and some guards were in a stance to point their weapons in their direction.