Chapter 574 Appeasing (1)
Once I was finished with my business at the church, it had already become dark.
I had been able to convince a few of the apprentices to come with me, but the rest of them still seemed to be on the fence about coming.
In the end, I would just let them decide over the next period of time since it was best to let them think it over. After all, those that were forced onto the battlefield would always have hesitation and hesitation would lead to death.
Not to mention, I didn't want to put any pressure on them to come since I agreed with the priest that we shouldn't force anyone to come.
I was their lord, so I could at least protect my territory and my people without having to rely on forced conscription.
So that was where I had left things for the day.
After all, there was an even harder battle that was waiting for me at home.
When I arrived, the servants all looked at me with awkward looks before turning to ignore me.
Seeing them act this way, I didn't get angry at all.
Rather, the moment that I saw them act this way, I knew what was happening here.
It seemed that Rose was still angry, so she had given the order for the servants to ignore me when I arrived.
This at least told me that she was still angry and I would have to do my best to appease her.
So without caring about the servants, I went right up to Rose's room.
I knew that she would be there since there was no sign of dinner being prepared.
It seemed that she had even been planning on letting me starve the entire time.
I knew that she was in a very bad mood if she was even planning on withholding food.
When I arrived in Rose's room, I saw that all of the girls were gathered there in the room.
I walked over to where Rose was sitting and came up behind her.
Seeing me do this, she looked at me with a confused look. However, I just turned her head back forward and said, "Just relax and leave everything to me."
I brought my hands up to her shoulder and then I started to squeeze.
The moment that she felt me squeezing her like this, Rose wasn't able to control herself as she suddenly gave a yelp.
The others all looked at me with gazes filled with suspicion, but Rose was the one that defended me as she said, "It's fine, I was just surprised by it."
I had stopped since they had glared at me, but Rose said, "I didn't say to stop."
I revealed a faint smile before I continued massaging her shoulders for her again.
This was the technique that I had learned from my parents.
Whenever my mother had been angry about something, my father had always gone to massage her shoulders. It would never take long before they became lovey dovey again and did things that they shouldn't have done in front of their child.
This shoulder massage wasn't the only technique that I had learned from my father.
After the shoulder massage worked, he would always go with a different technique...one that was inappropriate to show children.
That was how unafraid to show affection my parents had been, but that seemed to help me now.
My hands came down from Rose's shoulder and it went to her back.
As they were placed on her back, I started giving her a back massage as well.
It didn't take long before she let out a moan of pleasure from this.
Hearing this, I knew that it was time for the next step.
My hands went from Rose's back to her front and then in one swift move, I grabbed what was there.
