Ste quickly walked to his room trying to look as calm as he could and locked the door, he sighed and looked at the bottle thinking of a place to hide it. Hoping no one saw him when he suddenly heard a knock on his door it startled him and he nervously asked "who is it?"

But it was only Ashton, Ste quickly opened the door to let him in and than locked it again. His friend realised as soon as he saw Ste's face that there is something wrong before he could say anything Ste showed him the bottle and his friend's eyes widened in shock of what his friend just did.

"What are you going to do with it Ste?" he asked

"we need to find the man who gave it to her" he told his friend and his friend nervously took the bottle from his hand "I told you to stay out of this" Ashton told him which made Ste angry and he took the bottle from him "I cannot stay away from this because if it is what I think it is, then master is in danger and this can also help us to get rid of her. She was scared in the woods with that man it means it is something she didn't want anyone to know about" he told him as he was searching for a safe place to hide that bottle.

Ashton walked to his friend who was checking different boxes "how are you going to find him?" he asked

"Leave this on me I know what we have to do" he told Ashton and he nodded

Ste's eyes moved to a plant and he told Ashton to hide it in the plant because it was the safest place for them at the moment to hide it.

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Skellan was on his way home. He was sitting quietly with his warriors in the ship reading an old letter, more like just looking at the paper.

"I think we should take the offer and go to war with them" a man who was sitting next to him told him. He was one of his great warriors and he noticed Skellan was not interested, his attention was on that piece of paper in his hand he looked at it and found a stamp and quickly realised what was happening. He was not only a great warrior but also a great friend too, together they fought many wars.

"Are you feeling guilty after years?" he said and this time Skellan noticed him because this time he was talking about the letter and the man who wrote it. Who was a great king and a good friend of Skellan but he betrayed him and he helped his brother kill him.

"That was his fault for trusting me and he knew I can't be trusted" he said and then pointed at the stamp "this bothers me this stamp of eagle, a slave of mine has the same on his body it looks exactly like it"

The man laughed "you are forgetting when he took over he killed all of his sons and all the boys in his family there is no way this could be any of his"

Skellan's eyes widened "how can I forget that there is no way he could be any of his "

He sighed in relief and threw the water but deep down he still was not convinced

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Ste was in his room looking at all those clothes, jewels and coins Skellan gave him

"Come here Ashton" he called his friend who was cleaning the room and he sat next to him looking at all those beautiful jewels and clothes.

"It's time to use all this Ashton" he said and took some coins and putting then into a small box "we need someone to watch her for us"

Ashton sighed and tried to warn his friend again "Ste it's dangerous and risky"

"All I see here is greed and hate for her anyone will do this for us for a few coins" he said

"You need to help me find someone who can do this for me and if you cannot do this you can just shut your mouth and let me do it" he told Ashton but he did not reply and stayed silent.

Suddenly there was a knock on the door and someone informed Ste that Skellan is back and he wants to see him. And Ste immediately jumped out of the bed and left without wasting another second after hearing Skellan is back, he ran to Skellan's room with a bright smile on his face he happily opened the door and ran to Skellan's arms and capturing his lips in a lustful kiss showing him just how much he missed him, how much he was craving his touch and Skellan wrapped his arms around him tightly, as tight as it was possible, devouring him forgetting that they had company they broke the kiss and looked at each other's eyes both breathless.

"You don't know how happy I am to see your face again" Skellan told him and Ste blushed and told him "God knows how much I prayed for you to return soon" he smiles and Skellan stroked his cheek and finally decided to introduce the man in the room.

"Steven he is a great artist Amandus i brought him here specially to make a painting of you to capture your beauty" he told Ste who was surprised by those words. He never expected anyone would ever like to paint him it was like a dream to him. How can this be true he asked himself every day and night? Is he stuck in some fairy-tale or is he just dreaming a never ending dream.

"He is just like you told me Skellan, the most beautiful man I've seen in my whole life, it is an honour for me to paint him" Ste blushed hearing his praises.

"Can you sit on that chair" he asked Ste pointing on a silver chair and Ste did. Skellan grabbed the glass of wine and watched as the artist fixed Ste's hair and positioned him and started arranging things.

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Ashton was still in Ste's room looking at the bottle and thinking what to do with it, thinking of all the ways to get rid of it for Ste's sake but he also didn't want to betray his dear friend. He decided to not ruin Ste's plan and just help him. He hid the bottle back in the plant and left to go with the plan. He knew exactly where he could go, a young boy who was an old servant of Aquila. People say Aquila killed her family and made him her slave. Sure it's been years but inside still a part of him is burning for revenge. Ashton made his mind and made his way to the pond because he must be catching the fish for Aquila.

He was there just as he thought making his way back to the castle after when he saw Ashton standing in front of him and watching him quietly and approached him.

"What do you want?" the young boy asked Ashton who took the bucket from his hand "let me help you".

But the boy took the back "I don't need help I do this every day" and Ashton smirked "you've been complaining about Aquila making you work so much and she beat you up too" he said and the boy looked away

"I can't even understand your pain because you work for the person who killed your parents, you are at her mercy now washing the feet of your enemy everyday and it makes me feel sorry for you everyday" Ashton said all this to that boy who was silently listening to him but the burning anger in his eyes was enough for Ashton to realise that he is the perfect man for this job.

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After hours, Sitting in the same position was making Ste tired and Skellan who was sitting and watching Ste realised Ste was getting tired when Ste started massaging his shoulders he asked the artist that's it for now because Ste is getting tired and he should come back later tomorrow to continue this and the artist nodded and stopped and Ste quickly stood up to stretch.

"I cannot wait to see it when it is done" he said and wrapped his hands around him and Skellan cupped his face and stroked his cheekbone with his thumb "me too Steven, now go back to your room you must be really tired I'll see you soon" Ste nodded and Skellan gave him one quick kiss before he left.

He went back to his room and fell on the bed and Ashton who was eating his food in the room noticed Ste looked happier than before and he assumed it must be because of another gift or sex.

"You look so happy what is it" he said as he took the bite of the watermelon and Ste laughed and was about to tell him but stopped because he wanted to surprise him by showing it when it is done. He just blushed and left to the bath attached to his room. He rolled his eyes and assumed it must be just another beautiful pendant or something like that.

He was so busy eating when a slave came to inform him that Aquila told him to clean Skellan's room. It was just first time that she asked him to clean his master's room he quickly wiped his mouth and left to Skellan's room.

He opened the door and found his master was not there he looked and the room was bigger than all the other rooms here and he picked up some clothes and started folding them and changing the sheets of his bed . After he was done with them he started dusting he started from the table that had many bottles of wine he cleaned everything properly but than his attention moved to something that was covered with a piece of cloth he was curious to see what could be this thing covered with a cloth in the master's room without thinking further he removed it and found something that was very unexpected it was a half complete portrait of Ste his dear friend.

He had so many questions about this. Why does the master like him so much that he wants a painting of him? Why does he want him that much? Why he so captivated by him but most importantly what is it that Ste has but he doesn't.

"What are you doing in my room" Skellan asked and it startled him he put the cover back on and turned around and noticed he was wearing nothing but piece of cloth wrapped around his waist and he looked fresh after the bath he looked at him up at down looking at all those muscles , he looked down as Skellan approached him "I was just cleaning" Skellan turned round "do your work and leave and tell Steven I called him" Skellan told him but he was so busy looking at his back.

Skellan turned around and Ashton immediately lowered his gaze and continued working until he was done.

After he was done he returned to Ste's room but this time Ashton came back feeling different and he didn't even know why was he so upset by one painting and it was of Steven that's all. But its something that he never expected, master was first so kind to Ste that he took great care of him now he realised Ste is not only his favourite but master is also obsessed with him. Skellan didn't even bother looking at him for more than 2 seconds and he wants a portrait of Steven. This bothered him so much and he was even more bothered by the fact that he was jealous of Steven who is like his younger brother.

Ste was so busy looking at his stuff that he did not even look at him. But Ashton Realised that Skellan told him something "Ste master told me he wants to see you now" he said without looking at him in a way that made Ste realised that his friend was a bit upset by something and he asked him "are you ok Ashton?" but Ashton nodded with a small smile on his face and Ste smiled and left the room.

After he was gone Ashton looked at all those things that Ste had but this time he was looking at them in a very different way like he never did before even if Ste shared many of the things with him but the truth was that all of this belonged to Ste because master likes him so much.

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Ste was sitting astride Skellan giving him a back massage and thinking about the bottle and all about his plan. His hands were working on Skellan but his mind was somewhere else he wanted to know what it is because if it was poison it means Skellan is in danger. What if the rumours are true?

"Steven" Skellan asked

"Am I doing it right" Ste asked suddenly coming back to reality

"Tell me about your family Steven" he asked

"I don't remember anything about them Skellan" he told him which made Skellan wonder was he too young when he became a slave.

"I was only seven years old when I became a slave all I remember is that my master said someone left me outside his door" Ste told him everything but Ste's answer raised questions in his mind. But his little slave cannot be what he thinks he is and he should stop thinking about it.

He turned around and Ste fell on the other side of the bed, he got on top of him and asked him "did you put a spell on me?" and Ste laughed and cupped his face and captured his lips in an eager and passionate kiss. Hot breath and restless lips. He turned around, moving him on top of him tracing his hands all over his back as Ste deepens the kiss as their tongues repeatedly collided in lust and desire, trying to feel every inch of his mouth, biting his lip in the than licking it playing with his tongue. He never tasted anything as Ste's tongue before, like he is addicted to him which makes him wonder if he did any spell on him because he just can't get enough of him.

Ste broke the kiss so that his tongue could feel his muscles again teasing him with his small tongue. Tracing his tongue from his neck down to his chest, biting him there and tweaking his nipple and he moaned and Ste liked it because he wanted to hear him moan. Licking and sucking there till it was hard then his tongue travelled down until it met his erect dick ready for Ste to take it and he could feel his tongue on his tip, swirling back and forth, teasing him. Skellan grabbed his hair as he licked all that pre-cum came out of his dick. Skellan grabbed the sheets with one hand as he started taking him more and more in his mouth. Taking him down his throat and moaning onto his dick. "ahhhh Steven" Skellan grunted running his fingers into Ste's hair. He could feel his cock stretching Ste's throat out. Ste was eagerly sucking him trying to take all 11 inches into his mouth. Skellan felt like he could explode any second.

Skellan stopped him "Steven that's it" he moved him up to his face and kissed him softly "I want to finish in you" he said and Ste blushed. They moved so Ste was on all fours and he grabbed the oil and massaged it on his dick and some on his hole and started teasing him with his fingers, toying with him and Ste pushed back to his fingers "little eager aren't we Steven" he said and Ste blushed and he inserted two fingers in. He could feel himself being stretched then suddenly the fingers were taken away. He whimpered feeling the emptiness.

Ste grabbed the sheets tight as Skellan entered him slowly. Skellan was very eager himself as he didn't prepare him like he usually did. He stopped when he was fully inside him letting him relax better. When Ste relaxed, he took it out and thrusts back in watching himself out of him completely and than going back in. He moved down and turned his face to kiss him as he thrusts in him, sucking each other's moans. He moved back and grabbed his waist and started thrusting faster. Skellan was sure that people passing by were definitely hearing his grunting and all the delicious noises Ste was making but he never cared for that. Skellan began leaving love bites along his neck and shoulder. Skellan slammed into him harder and Ste pushed back against his dick.

"Skellan"

"Steven"

They cried out each other's name as they both came together with Skellan releasing in him and Ste releasing in his hand. He took it out and both fell on the bed breathless and sweating and Ste watched him for a few minutes and turned his face to look at him with his hand and stroked his cheek with his thumb "I would never do any spell on you" he smiled and told him and Skellan kissed his soft lips one more time before they both closed their eyes.

Next day Skellan woke up early by the knock on his door Ste woke up by that too but he told him to go back to sleep and he will see who that is, so he put a robe on and walked to the door he opened it and found a man standing with a letter in his hand and he didn't ask him any question and took it from his hand and shut the door on his face. He poured some wine in a glass and sat on the chair. He opened the letter and it turned out to be by the warrior he was talking with the other day about Ste

"Skellan there is something really important I have to tell you. Remember you told me about your slave boy who has a tattoo on his body, eagle, you thought had something to do with Socrates and his family. Everyone in their family have this tattoo in their body when Socrates killed his brother using your help and took over he killed all of his sons. Or so he thought. He ordered the execution of all 17 of his sons the younger was a 7 year old boy who survived. I did some investigation over night when I heard that and it looks like all the 16 prince were executed but when they opened the coffin of the 7 year old there was a dead fox inside but not the boy which means his mother saved him from being executed and nobody knows what happened to the last prince after that but his mother was killed. So that means it is possible the prince is still alive. I cannot confirm if your slave is that prince or maybe it's nothing but a coincidence but you have to be very careful now Skellan because he is still looking for that boy".

After he finished that letter he felt like his the ground was shaking. He looked at Steven who was sleeping like a baby and he looked back to the letter and he immediately went to the balcony and burned the letter.