Chapter 33: Chapter 33Graham stared at the scene playing out before him. The screams fell upon his ears but they did not disturb him.

    Graham placed the pipe in his mouth and blew smoke toward the man who dared touch what was his. "I placed you as smart yet you tried to harm what was mine when my back was turned. You could have avoided where you are now if you were smart."

    Jonathan’s hair was pulled by the guard who placed the hot metal bar on his leg to make him look at Graham. "I didn’t touch the whore."

    "Whore? I’ve often told you that she isn’t to be called that by anyone. She is mine so where do you get off being the one to insult her? You cannot fool me. Someone spotted you leaving her room with blood covering you. The knife I knew she had stolen was bloody in her room," said Graham.

    He allowed Rose to keep the knife as he knew that she did not have it in her to harm someone. Graham liked seeing Rose think she had something to protect herself with. He was wrong to doubt her since she managed to harm Jonathan.

    Graham couldn’t enjoy being pleasantly surprised by Rose since he had to focus on the fact that Jonathan tried to bed her when he didn’t have the pleasure of doing it. He had not played this game for years for another man to enjoy being her first.

    Graham couldn’t rest until the hot steel burned off every inch of Jonathan’s skin.

    Jonathan smiled, bearing through the pain. "How do you know she did not invite me to her room?"

    Graham saw that Jonathan had a death wish to suggest such a thing to him. Rose never invited him to his room but she would welcome this slimy bastard to her room? "While I do provide special services for my customers and girls to roleplay, Rose wouldn’t be interested in calling you to her room to stab you."

    "You have a brothel full of whores yet you treat that girl like she is some sort of lady. Spoiling her when she is to be sold to the men who want her- Ugh," Jonathan groaned, hunching over as his burning flesh sent a wave of pain through his body.

    Jonathan already found himself embarrassed by being stabbed by not even a common woman but a whore. He already endured his punishment and was somehow still alive after she stabbed him. Sёarch* The NovelFire.net* website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    "Where is Rose?" Graham asked, placing Jonathan as one of the suspects. He couldn’t sit back and wait for Mathias to bring Rose back to him.

    Jonathan spat out the blood that formed in his mouth. "She stabbed me. I would have killed her instead of taking her. After everything you did, she slipped out of your hands. You should have just had her."

    Graham slowly got to his feet, his body swaying as the bottles of alcohol he drank still affected him. He couldn’t stop drinking whilst the woman he treasured most in the brothel was out of his hands.

    "None of you can tell me what to do with her. I own her!" Graham yelled, his voice cracking. "I had other women for you to use and you set your sights on who didn’t belong to you. Who helped you get to her room?"

    Graham knew the odds of Jonathan having a good guess to pick out which was Rose’s room was low. He couldn’t dismiss the fact that many of the women here were jealous of Rose so they would try to lead someone to her room.

    "I told you, she invited me to her room. You kept her away from your customers while all along, she wanted to do her job. You could make a lot of money if you would just sell her. She’s all your customers ever talk about. Let me pay for what happened," Jonathan offered.

    "You already are. Burn all his skin off and dump him somewhere. You are in luck that I am not in the mood to send you to be with men who have not touched anyone in months. Since you want to touch someone so badly, that would be fitting for you, wouldn’t it?" Graham asked.

    Graham enjoyed the fear that filled Jonathan’s face. Jonathan shouldn’t have made the mistake of underestimating how much he loved Rose.

    "W-Wait," Jonathan pleaded as he would rather die than have a punishment like that. He was not a man interested in being touched by other men.

    "I said I wasn’t in the mood to let that be your final moment but seeing you on the verge of crying, I can’t help myself. I have to think about how scared Rose would have been to see you enter her room. I feel like I failed her because I told her time and time again that she only belongs to me. Take him," Graham changed his mind.

    Jonathan’s first punishment didn’t seem like enough now that Graham thought about how scared Rose would have been. She was only used to him so she had to be scared out of her mind.

    Graham could not stop blaming himself for her disappearance since he should have kept her in his room. There was more he wanted to do with the two of them alone but the foreign bastards just had to interrupt him right there.

    "Would they be so stupid to take her?" Graham wondered, considering Mathias’s story that the foreigners were around at that time. They shouldn’t be so stupid to steal from him.

    While Zayne claimed to have no interest in any of the women here, Graham couldn’t forget how Zayne’s gaze went to Rose a few times. It could have just been curiosity as Rose was a beautiful woman who had heads turning but Graham couldn’t shake the feeling that there was a small chance they took her.

    "Someone would have seen them with her. We had a busy night," Graham said, finding it hard to believe they had managed to slip her away right under his nose.

    All clues pointed to Jonathan or Mathias and unfortunately, Graham believed that they didn’t have her. There were plenty of customers present that night who could have troubled her. The fire could have made her panic and run out of the brothel only to be caught by someone who would not let her out.

    Graham was left with no choice but to put out a reward for anyone who could bring her back. Once Rose was finally home, she would not leave the four corners of his bedroom.