"I'm sorry," Madeline apologised.
"You do not need to. I understand why you were with him but I just cannot believe the king is my father. His orders made it impossible for me to go to the town guards. For others like me trying to find our way home to get help. He does not want it to be revealed that there are slaves in his kingdom and for that, I could not help from the guards," Rose explained.
If not for how the king wanted to portray his kingdom to outsiders, Rose would have been bold to try running to the town guards. Many of the other women would have had the confidence to try running away.
Rose didn't care that the king didn't know he had a daughter lost somewhere. He was the king. In a way, they were all his children to be protected by him but how the kingdom looked was more important than fixing the problems right under his eyes.
