Chapter 209
"Oh," Rose thought of one problem. "You are not to be here. I mean, my mother knows you would return but how am I to tell my father we got engaged tonight? Right here in my room? He will figure it out if we lie."
"I will take care of that. I will tell him but first, I need to find a ring somewhere in this kingdom. He’ll be upset with me for as long as I live if I do not put a ring on your finger. Don’t worry," Zayne said, kissing Rose’s forehead.
Rose silently worried. They were doing it the right way by getting engaged so it should be fine but she was yet to see Zayne and Victor enjoying speaking alone. "You must be alone with him to talk. That is the only way he will come to like you as I do. I will set it up."
Zayne didn’t see the day going as Rose imagined it. It was fun for him to get under Victor’s skin and Victor would have a list of threats which would fall on deaf ears but he would do it for her. "Your father already likes me. He only acts the way he does to scare me. Enough about him," he held her hand.
Her bare hand upset him as he hadn’t thought of proposing without a ring. Rose was deserving of a proper proposal but it had come to this moment in a bathroom.
Zayne raised her hand to kiss where the ring should be. "I will do it the right way and give you a ring. You will have a proper proposal."
"I don’t hate how it was done. I know that it came from your heart so I don’t need a well-decorated place to have an engagement story others will like. I want to keep this one but hide it from my father," Rose said, wanting to keep Zayne’s presence a secret.
"Oh!" Rose exclaimed, leaving Zayne’s side to stop the water before it got too high. "You should get undressed and step in before it turns cold. I will turn around," Rose said, doing as she said she would.
"What a shame. I was hoping you would look-"