Chapter 52: 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.

    "It is normal for maids to do those jobs while our employer only needs to show up to get undressed and sit in their baths. Some of them don’t even have to bathe themselves as maids are waiting at the side to do that. I hope he doesn’t think we might not be able to do it like his servants at home," said Janice.

    "I will be back!" Rose announced as she ran off. She was to be the best maid she could be so Zayne wouldn’t regret bringing her here.

    While Rose did not want to help in bathing him or stand by as he bathed himself, she could prepare his clothes and then clean up the water in the bathroom.

    "Why didn’t you think of cleaning the water?" Rose asked herself. She had to clean up the water she spilt in her bathroom every night so it would need to be cleaned for Zayne as well.

    Rose stood before the door of Zayne’s room. She stood there for a moment, trying to build the courage she needed to do this job. She would be alone with Zayne but at least he would be inside the bathroom while she was looking around for his clothes.

    Rose knocked on the door and then waited. If Zayne did not hear her, then it wasn’t her fault. She had tried so he could not later say that she did not make a good servant.

    As Rose started to leave, the door opened and due to his state, Rose had to look at the floor.

    "I might need to change you from little bunny to little bird with the way you want to spy on me these days. You are interrupting my bath. What is it?" Zayne asked, thinking it to be something important to bring her here.

    "I can do my job as well as anyone who served you before. If I am to tend to you during this time, then I can do it. I can put aside what you are to wear and clean the bathroom after you step out so you won’t fall. I can do that much," Rose offered. sea??h thё N?vel?ire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    Zayne folded his arms. She couldn’t look in the eye now but she wanted to be in here while he bathed. "We already cleared this up. Why the sudden change?"

    "Janice brought it to my attention that I should be here. I won’t disturb you inside the bathroom. I would only come inside once you are done so I can clean the water," Rose replied, her gaze still focused on the floor.

    "Tell me, how am I to let you inside when you can’t look at me now? We both know that you will be overthinking the entire time you step foot in here. I would like to end my night without having to calm you down. Go on with what you were doing," Zayne said, stepping back to close the door.

    Rose touched the door and looked up at Zayne. "No! I can do this. You said that I wasn’t the kind of woman you liked so I have nothing to worry about. If you haven’t run the water, I can do that."

    Zayne moved his hand upward to allow Rose to enter. What gave her comfort in being around him had changed. She quickly turned to a woman he was interested in. There was no denying that after how he acted around her as of late.

    Zayne didn’t know if to thank or later scold Janice for bringing this up to Rose. He closed the door behind Rose. "My water is already running. You don’t need to enter the bathroom yet and I prefer something light to wear to bed. I only need a shirt to wear to the dinner table as I will take off when I come to bed."

    "I understand. Enjoy your bath," Rose said, watching as Zayne returned to the bathroom alone.

    "Hmm. Perhaps one day you might make it enjoyable," she heard just before the door closed.

    "What? He is a strange man," Rose concluded. Strange but he seemed true to his word that he did not have any interest in her.

    Something could have happened long ago unless he was just as crazy as Graham to play a game of waiting only to ruin her later.

    Rose shook her head. "He is not like Graham, you fool. Focus on something else. Where are his clothes?"

    This was the first time Rose entered this room as she had not made it to the second floor with her cleaning. She was still getting used to the fact his room was opposite the room he gave to her. It should have been one of the first things he told her that day.

    "He doesn’t have any interest," Rose smiled. One day she hoped to poke his hand to thank him for not being cruel like his peers.

    Inside the bathroom, Zayne listened closely to Rose moving around inside his bedroom. He was missing the sight of her walking around lost as she most likely did not know where his shirts were.

    His smile fell to a frown as he realised the situation he was getting himself into.