Chapter 257
"How are you a free man right now? If anyone else were to beat up the king like you did, they would be praying for their life to be spared right about now. You gave the king a bloody nose which messes up the appearance he has to make to speak about our victory. Now he pushes even more for us to head out again. Violence solves nothing," Finn argued.
"Coming from a man whose job is being in the army?" Zayne replied.
"That’s different. That’s my job but you hit the king because you didn’t like him. You going out again means that I have to go out again. I just got back to my mother’s cooking and we have a lot of people who are now with their families. A few came home to the arrival of babies. How are we to pull them away?’ Finn asked, seeing it as unreasonable.
"We won’t. Weren’t you listening today that I am not going anywhere? I can’t leave Rose alone yet," Zayne said, worried about how she was with him gone for so long.
"Your brother can be petty when he wants to be. He knows he can’t directly hurt you so he goes after the things around you and now, you have Rose. He’s going to push toward her until you finally give in. You’ll need to think about that," Finn said, more worried about Rose than Zayne.
It wouldn’t be hard for Gage to make Rose’s time here unpleasant.
"Maybe we should gather a few men and go-"
"No, I am not leaving my wife and I will hit the next person who asks me to. Will it be you?" Zayne asked, tapping his fingers on the seat as he waited for Finn to speak again.
Finn smiled and turned his attention to the window. "If that decision ever changes, I will be right beside you. Someone has to keep you alive. Just remember this when the time comes for you to name one of your children after me."
"Over my dead body," Zayne replied.
He could not get through hearing about another Finn.