Mathias should have guessed sooner that Rose would have some enemies here who would be happy to share where she had run off to. If she was ever meeting with a man in secret or simply had a friend she made plans to run away with the women here would know about it. He should have spoken to the other women here from the beginning.
Silvia clung to Mathias's arm once more. Though she didn't know why he would want Rose, what mattered now was that she was on his arm and he wanted a room. She could switch his attention from Rose to herself easily.
"Are you one of her lovers?" Silvia asked, playing the game to sway his attention to her.
"She had lovers?" Mathias replied. If only Alexander would be here to listen to what was being said and snap out of this. Why did he concern himself with a woman already taken by other men?
