The Forgotten Princess Rose-Chapter 270

It pained Gage to go down on his knees to plead to Zayne to leave again. Zayne was never going to let him forget this so his pride would be wounded forever. It hurt as a king and an older brother to have to do this.

"Took you long enough to go down there," Zayne said, enjoying every bit of this. Gage was disrupting his life so he was going to make every bit of this hard for Gage. "Go on. Plead like you mean it."

"Don’t overdo it-"

"Is that back talk I hear when you’re supposed to be pleading to me?" Zayne spoke over Gage.

Gage wanted to get up and punch Zayne but he couldn’t. His hands were tied.

Gage looked up at Zayne who smiled which only pissed him off even more. "Zayne-"

"My lovely brother that I can’t do anything without," Zayne started for Gage.

Gage gritted his teeth. "Zayne, my lovely brother that I can’t do anything without. Could you please head out again and fix this for me? It’s only a week you will be away from Rose and I will keep her safe during that time. You have my word."

"I don’t trust you to look after my wife. In fact, she needs protection from you and Rose won’t ever be going into the palace so don’t think of inviting her there. Inform your wife not to invite her there," said Zayne.

His departure didn’t mean anyone should look to invite her to the palace.

Gage started to get up but felt Zayne’s hand on his shoulder to stop him from doing so. "You know, the palace was our home for a long time. It’s not like when we were growing up anymore. There are fewer problems. Would you move your damn hand so I can get up?"

A little longer and all of Gage’s pride would be gone.

Zayne kept his hand on Gage’s shoulder. "I don’t care how much better it has gotten for you and your family. Rose is not going there so don’t invite her or make some mess to have her go there. I will kill you if I return and learn you called her to the palace. Don’t test my patience this time around."

Gage knew the palace had its flaws but if Zayne didn’t go around threatening many people then he wouldn’t have to worry about sending Rose there.

Gage ignored the threat and focused on the fact that Zayne was agreeing to go. "Good! How soon can you get your men a ship? Zayne, your hand," he pointed to where Zayne was hurting him. "You’re going to ruin my shoulder at this rate."

"I could have let her stay with her family had I known you were going to do this. I took her away from her family only to have to leave her already because you don’t have anyone else to help you. Tell me why I shouldn’t hit you again?" Zayne asked.

"Because I am the king and if you do I will have you taken to the palace dungeon which means her dinner will be ruined? I don’t know about you but that’s enough reason for you not to hit me," Gage said, smiling soon after which might have been a mistake.

"You’ve got mother ready to spend all her days with Rose and then you could let Paige visit often as long as Rose can handle how much she talks. You had to leave Rose at some point and I knew right away it is unreasonable but you know how important this is. I won’t ask you to do anything else for three months after this," Gage promised.

"Reward my soldiers properly," Zayne said, using the chance for them to benefit.

"Of course. I was going to invite all of them to the palace to thank them for all their work on this. You won’t regret this," Gage said, finally getting to his feet. "I’m sorry for being unreasonable but I really need this on this one thing and then you’ll be free."

’I’m already regretting this," Zayne muttered. "I haven’t confirmed anything with you yet. I need to speak to Rose first and I don’t want you to bring it up tonight or try to convince her to say yes to it. The second I hear you bring it up then I am going to throw you out."

Gage put his hands up. "I won’t say a word to her. I want to enjoy the night your wife prepared for all of us. I know you won’t believe me but I am not angry you picked a wife by yourself. I always knew that you wouldn’t have liked any of the women I picked out for you so it was better this way. I’m happy just seeing you married and not alone out here."

"So happy that you want to make my wife alone? As Paige said, I can feel how much you love me," Zayne said, heading toward the door as he spoke. Another minute alone with Gage and he might end up hitting him. "I can see why the royals I met wanted to kill each other. I should take a page from their book to end my problems."

"No need to go that far. We’ve always bumped heads but not to the point of wanting to kill each other. I only permit you to kill me if I am a bad king. I have a wife and child you would have to face if you kill me. You would also go from the loved prince to the king slayer. You don’t want that," said Gage.

"I already have the name king slayer among other names. You need to be careful. If I have to deal with your jealousy one more time, I will kill you," Zayne said, his mind made up.

"It’s always death with you. Half my court pisses themselves when I bring up your name. It’s gotten worse since you cut someone’s fingers off. Think of you being away from Rose as a test to see-"

"I don’t want to hear from you," Zayne stopped Gage from offering any advice.

"Right right,’ Gage replied and slowly fell behind Zayne so they didn’t walk side by side. "I love you, you know. Despite everything and how I come off, I love you. I will admit that it feels a bit awkward to say it out loud but I do love you. Little brother."

"You know it annoys me when you call me that,’ Zayne said, having too many memories of being teased for being the youngest one.

"Oh, but you are the youngest one. I have to tell you that I love you since I didn’t get the chance to tell Zeek. I don’t need you to say it back since I know you’re not much of a talker. When you get back, it’ll be nearing the time to celebrate his life. I hope you’ll come to the palace to see me and this time, I’ll control my emotions," Gage promised.

Zayne didn’t respond but Gage wasn’t giving up hope Zayen would visit the palace. No response wasn’t a rejection of the invitation. Anything was possible when the time came.