Rose tried to remain calm while she waited for her moment to run. Panicking would do nothing but get her captured.
She was not going back to Graham and certainly not by the hands of Mathias. Rose regretted using herself as a distraction to have him go free with Alexander.
"Hurry up so we can visit the next market!" Mathias ordered the soldiers.
He was starting to believe Rose might have died somewhere on the mountain. She couldn't make it out alive and had already been far from where he had been searching. Someone was hiding her or maybe he had missed her when he searched the mountain.
"I should have chased her," Mathias whispered, greatly regretting that he had given up on following Rose the night she ran away.
If not for the bastard foreigner, Mathias would have caught up to her and dragged her back to the brothel.
"Their camp was on the other side. Would they hold her as a captive?" Mathias wondered.
