Chapter 67: Chapter 67"Where is Graham?" Silvia wondered as it was past opening time for the brothel and customers were coming in but there wasn’t any sight of him.

    There were new girls present but Graham hadn’t informed them who was to show them what to do.

    "Just go to your rooms."

    "He is out looking for Rose, isn’t he? They are all looking for her," Silvia said, upset that Rose had all the attention.

    Even the soldier she had brought to her room was still stuck on Rose though he claimed to hate her. Mathias wasn’t keeping his deal to be her only customer. Silvia was starting to get the feeling that he was in love with Rose but was pretending to be angry with her.

    "These men are pathetic. What can Rose do for them? I will take care of the new girls so go entertain the customers," Silvia decided.

    She would show Graham that she could be the woman he left to get these girls in shape. None of the women present were Silvia’s friends so she would get them to do whatever was needed to make a lot of money.

    Silvia had to think of her future.

    As the customers poured in, Finn entered with Liam to search for what Zayne wanted.

    "All of you were coming here to have fun without me," Finn whispered. "What did you even get out of this visit?"

    "If you pay the women enough, they will tell you everything they know about the men of this town. You are not to spend the night here. It is Zayne’s one rule," said Liam.

    Liam knew that there had been soldiers trying to sneak off to come here and if he caught them, he was going to cut off a special part of them to end their desires to break Zayne’s rule.

    "This way," Liam said, following the path he had taken before. "Keep your head down. It’s crawling with those soldiers."

    Finn looked around at King James’s soldiers filling up the brothel. They were already getting drunk and distracted by women. It would be so easy to kill out this group and then move on to the palace.

    ’Do we need to have peace with these people?’ Finn wondered. He didn’t like the things he saw or the stories he heard. This kingdom wasn’t like the stories he had heard from travelling merchants or their spies.

    "The distraction," Liam said as having one would be the only way to slip inside Graham’s room.

    "Got it. Big fire," Finn said, opening a bottle he brought. "You get the papers and meet me by the gates. If you find yourself surrounded, you know the signal."

    Finn separated from Liam to start a fire. He didn’t know why Zayne laughed when he suggested a fire as a distraction but he would soon find out.

    Liam continued to Graham’s bedroom and waited for Finn to make the distraction. He waited for a few minutes and then heard a woman screaming about a fire. This was a little too familiar as the last time he was here, someone had started a fire and there was a lot of screaming just like tonight.

    Liam moved to slip inside Graham’s room and closed the door behind him. "What is this?" He muttered, confused by how the room was decorated. Zayne had blocked his view of the room the time they came here so he hadn’t noticed how bad the room was.

    Liam shook his head. Swords and guns were his thing so maybe this room was decorated as it should be.

    He started to open the boxes he came across, only to find money in some, along with necklaces or rings which were suited for women. He had a small window to do this but he wasn’t finding any boxes with papers.

    "Would he be so foolish to put it under the bed?" Liam wondered, going down to look under the bed and as he did so, where he rested his hand on the floor creaked.

    Liam sat up and pressed down on the floor once more. The same noise came again but didn’t when he pressed a different space. He knocked on the floor and heard the slight sound of something rattling.

    Liam pulled away a rug made from the fur of an animal and found a trap door lock on it.

    Liam chuckled as Graham almost had him turning around. He positioned the tip of his large sword to hit the lock open. After five hits, the lock broke and Liam was able to open the small trap door on the floor.

    It was a small space where a box with a lock was hidden away. Liam took it out and once again tried to break the lock but this one was harder to open. He didn’t have much time to search for a key to open this and find a paper belonging to a woman named Rose. They had to take the box and pray this is what they came for.

    Liam looked over his shoulder when the door opened and found a woman standing there.

    "Graham? No, you are taller. Customers are not to be here," Silvia said, taking a step back. With Graham not present, she was taking the risk to find a pricey gift a customer had given her but Graham snatched it from her neck.

    When Graham took the gifts they got from being spoiled by their customers, he didn’t count it as repaying the money he claimed to have spent on them. She wanted the necklace back as it was the only thing that made her feel more than a whore in a brothel.

    "You are not one of the guards and- Where did you get that?" Silvia questioned, interested in the box in his hands. She had seen it before when Graham brought in new girls. It had their papers and a bit of money.

    If Silvia could get her paper out of there, would she be free?

    Liam didn’t answer Silvia. Instead, he approached her ready to knock her out so he could be on his way. The box was something important judging from her reaction so he could leave without opening it. If he made a mistake then he would return alone.

    Silvia didn’t know what this stranger wanted with their papers but she didn’t care. "He wears the key around his neck. You only need to-"

    "My apologies," Liam said after knocking her out. He was sorry he couldn’t drop the box in time to catch her. He had to make up for it by bringing back the papers for the women to burn. S~ea??h the n?velFire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

    Liam quickly made his way out without bringing any attention to himself or the large box he tried to hide beneath the cloak he wore.

    He kept his head down to avoid anyone seeing his eyes.

    "Why is this brothel always on fire?" Mathias wondered, tempted to turn back since a fire ruined the mood for him.

    Mathias needed a distraction after the day he had. Their visit to the palace was delayed all because the foreigners did not accept the king’s request for them to go to the palace so Alexander was still searching for Rose around the town.

    While Mathias wasn’t pleased with what Alexander was doing he would sit back and let Alexander find her first and then hand her off to Graham. "Where would he be now?" Mathias wondered, looking for Graham who he needed to inform once more that he could not find Rose.

    His attention went to the man that just walked by them in a hurry. Since other customers were leaving, maybe he should take that as a sign to leave as well. Graham would already be angry that the brothel was buring so not bringing good news of Rose now would not be a good idea.

    "We’re leaving," Mathias told the men who came with him. He had a bad feeling about this brothel tonight.