The Forgotten Princess Rose-Chapter 319

Rose ended up leaving the room to look out at the last bit of light in the sky. She was once again used to how the ship rocked and wanted to get a glimpse of the sky before she went to bed again which might not be for hours since she slept so long.

She came at a time when the crew were silently working while others slept after just having their dinner. After a quick check, she found that Krystle and Catherine had gone to bed but Mary was missing.

"I don’t understand," Rose heard Finn’s voice down below.

Rose leaned over but Zayne’s hand around her waist stopped her from leaning too far over. She was too busy looking at Mary walking beside Finn to tell Zayne she was not going to lean enough to fall. ’Why are they together?’ Rose wondered.

From what Rose heard from Finn, Mary had been avoiding him with the same answer that he annoyed her and they weren’t friends to speak to each other.

"You are being nosy now," Zayne whispered.

Rose didn’t mind that she was being nosy. She could admit that she was listening to something and not making her presence known. She wanted to see how the two were with each other.

"I told you to leave me alone. Which part of it did you not understand? Tell me so I can explain it to you," Mary replied.

At a time like this, Mary needed Rose awake so she could enter Rose’s quarters which only Zayne, Krystle and Catherine had permission to enter.

"I do not understand why he brought you along. Don’t you have soldiers to train if you are going to take his place? You shouldn’t fail right away. It is still his reputation on the line since he put in a good word for you. I would hate to have to follow a fool," Mary said, still annoyed with Zayne’s choice.

"I will not disappoint him. When have you ever seen me disappoint, Zayne? Do not answer that," Finn quickly spoke before Mary could give an answer. "Don’t even think about asking to join someone else because I am not letting you go. You need to put up with me until you admit that we’re friends."

"I will have to suffer then," Mary replied, turning right suddenly to get away from Finn.

"Why do you keep trying to get away from me? I know you want to be my friend. It isn’t like you have many friends in the army besides me. Everyone is afraid of you but if you would just stop being so mean-"

"I am not mean, I am honest. I was honest when I said that I didn’t want to be your friend. I don’t want to be caught up in drama with the women who like you. I don’t want you to annoy me and if you get any closer, I will pull out my sword to stab you. Repeatedly," she added to show how frustrated she was.

Finn was careful not to get too close to Mary since he didn’t doubt she would stab him and then throw him over the side of the ship to get away with it. "I don’t know what drama with women you’re speaking of. I don’t have any women in my life outside of the ones in my family. You don’t like that I am close to my mother?"

"Do not act like you do not know. You’ve built yourself a reputation by being beside Zayne for years. Many want to wed you to be attached to Zayne somehow. I don’t want to be mistaken for one of the women interested in courting you so no, we cannot be friends," Mary turned down his offer once more.

Even if she were to explain they were only friends then others would not believe it. They would jump to think she had other intentions for being so close to Finn.

"We would not be good friends. You bother me. I like peace and you like to speak too much. We have nothing in common other than being soldiers so there isn’t something to speak about as friends. I appreciate your interest in becoming friends but please stop," Mary said, hoping he would listen this time.

"Very well," Finn agreed.

Mary eyed him with suspicion. She had been telling him to leave her alone for some time now and he just agreed to it so easily now? "Why have you agreed to it now?"

"Because I don’t want to be your friend. You should treat me as a man courting you," Finn replied.

Mary frowned. She touched her face, trying to fight back the need to stab him. At this point, Finn was trying to toy with her. "I am going to kill you."

"Shouldn’t you do something about that? I think she means what she says," Rose spoke softly.

"They will be fine. Finn knows how to defend himself. Isn’t it cold? We should return to our room or must you see this end? I don’t know why you have any interest in what they do," said Zayne.

"They are our friends. I don’t want them to be upset with each other or hurt each other. I knew that Finn liked Mary. He bothered her too much," Rose said, a little happy that her guess was right.

"It’s surprising you noticed when you didn’t notice I liked you."

"It is different when you are the one down there. You do not see what others see and you told me that you didn’t have any interest in me from the start. I think you should go down there. Her sword is out," Rose said, panicking.

"They are fine," Zayne replied, uninterested in what the two fools down below were doing. He would only be concerned if they woke everyone who was finally going to bed.

"Then I will-"

"You stay here," Zayne held onto Rose so she would not leave. "Leave them be."

Below where Rose and Zayne stood, Finn was smiling ear to ear. Though Mary was trying to kill him the fact remained that she wasn’t running away from him anymore.

"Just let me court you. Give me a chance to show that we might balance each other out. I’ll do the talking when you don’t want to speak. That was close," Finn said, admiring the mark she made on wood. "I don’t know what lie you’ve heard but I don’t have any women in my life. The ones you see are coming to me to get close to Zayne. You need to question Zayne about the women in his life."

Zayne frowned. Why did his name have to be thrown into this? He didn’t know of women who approached Finn. "Wait here for me. We’ll go back to our room after I throw Finn over the side of the ship."

Finn didn’t know they were listening but Mary and Rose were friends. It would be easy for them to misunderstand what Finn said.

"Thank you. Wait, what?" Rose questioned, only now realising what Zayne said he was going to do. "You need to stop her, not help her. Zayne!"