Changmin  POV

That day we returned home with several new and even luxury ways, a luxury that I never liked, as poor as I was.

I leaved my blue dress with embroidered flowers on, as it seemed to please my master.

"So this was the life of some slaves?"

I thought, looking at myself in the mirror with my clothes on.

« Your master is not wasted Minnie! »

Kyuhyun is looking at that mountain of clothes on my bed and caressing her fabric without even a touch of jealousy.

« I do not even know why ... I could very well use what I had in the closet. »

For me it was a waste at the end, even if I did not mind those new clothes.

« Perhaps because, I remind you, that he also wants something from you? »

Kyuhyun sat on the bed and moved his legs, looking at me.

« Do you think that ...? »

I blushed, remembering what happened in the small shop. How his strong arms surrounded my body and how his breath stroked my neck, making my heart beat faster.

He shook his head and walked away from the mirror, as if doing so, I also removed the thoughts that appeared in my mind.

« I think so, even if this time ... no, I do not tell you and I'm not here to talk about ...»

« What ...? Go on ...»

« Oh, Minnie, no, I hope so ... I talk a lot, I think it's time to go to the kitchen and help that bad cook, before taking away some of my food. »

So saying he got up and joined me to give me a light pat on the shoulder.

« Prepare your expensive clothes and go down if you want! Ah, see you later Minnie!»

He greeted me with his warm and friendly smile that made me feel less alone in that place, when my Master was not there.

Once alone, I approached the bed and began to bend carefully and arrange the various clothes in the closet that resembled a small room.

I had divided the clothes already present from those taken and I thought, for a brief moment, to take a while and look for a servant who could deliver it to my mother and sister.

Kyuhyun had managed to find the way and even my family, telling him what had happened to me and also that I was in good hands with that person.
He had also left a small bag with medical coins for my sister and also for school, without I asking.

Even though I knew they were fine, I wanted to see them, I wanted to be with them and resume my life, the life I loved in the end, even though I was now immersed in luxury.

But what was luxury for if I could not live with my family or have the freedom to go out and enter like a normal person?

I finished arranging the last dress and left that closet I closed, thinking carefully to go to the window to look out, until my eyes fell on a letter on the ground, under the door.

I approached and picked it up, opening it and seeing that something was written. The problem was that I could not read. I did not understand what was written.

Holding the letter, I opened the door to see who had left that message, but only the deserted corridor greeted me. There was no one.

I had to have someone read that letter, but who could this?

« Kyuhyun! »

I could trust him and left the room to go to the kitchen that was on the lower floor of that huge house.

Going down the stairs in a hurry, however, he ended up bumping into someone and fell with my ass on the step behind me, leaving even the sheet that ended at the feet of the one I had hit.

« Careful where you put your feet up ... oh, but it's his! Excuse me! »

The man, strong and slightly taller than me, came up, helping me to get up and arranging even the dress I was wearing.

I moved, thinking about what had happened with one of them, or rather, what he wanted to do in the rooms, holding my dress.

He moved his hands and looked at me questioningly and then bowed.

« Forgive me, I did not want to hurt you, I hope you did not hurt yourself and that your body is well. »

« I'm ... I'm fine, do not worry, forgive me, it's my fault if ... I would go down the stairs. »

I barely shook my head to apologize and seemed to like it, until he took the letter by his feet, reading the contents and bleaching.

« Master Changmin ... this letter is about your family! »

I raised my head to feel this and my eyes widened, watching the man reading its with his eyes.

« Who gave you this letter? »

His question alarmed me and I approached him.

« What do you say? Please tell me what it says! »

Knowing it was talking about my family, he put a strange agony in my heart that started beating out of fear of knowing.

« Someone has taken your family and is leading they to the forest hut, where negotiations for slaves are also held. »

My heart has lost a beat.
No, it could not be.

I said nothing, but ran down the stairs, leaving the house and heading for the stable where the horses were kept.
I knew I could not go out, that it was forbidden, but at that moment I could not follow the rules nor the reason.

I took the first horse I found, but then I remembered that I did not even know how to drive.

I thought about starting running on foot, but that man reached me.

« Come with me, I'll find them with my horse. »

I did not think twice and accepted, climbing on a black horse and waiting for him to climb too, holding only the flaps of the shirt of that man never seen in the house.
I did not know everyone then, since I rarely went out of the rooms and not everyone ate at the table except Kyuhyun and the servant who had to guard me.

« Ooh! »

He waved his bridle and the horse ran out of the stable, following the path that led to the woods.

I was worried and even felt my eyes pinching at the tears that were coming up violently.

What had happened? Why had they been taken?

They were questions that the sun took with them, leading them to the clouds laden with rain that threatened the sky and its own rays.

I do not know how long I stayed on the horse, but by now the rays of the sun were coming in places where we were, covered by dense trees and not just by the clouds.

The man began to slow down with his horse, until he stopped in the middle of a small shady clearing.

« Where am I? Tell me if they are here. »

I felt a bad feeling about my body as I spoke those words.

He did not answer and just went down from the horse and then stretched out his hand towards my arm, pulling me down from the saddle and making me fall down.

The ground was damp and also ended up slamming my hip and making me sick.

« Of course you're really gullible, Master Changmin. I did not think it would be so easy even if I doubted his words. »

The man grabbed me by the hair, making me stand up with a moan of pain.

My eyes were covered with terror, while he smiled, a smile that did not bode well.

« You poor always believe everything. If only you had learned at least to read ... poor dog. »

Holding me firmly by the hair with one hand, he stretched the other towards his robe, pulling out a knife.

« After this work, I will be repaid for good and you will no longer be a nuisance and an obstacle. Say hello to the sun, master Changmin, or rather, slave. »

He was about to hit me, but I found the strength to wriggle and hit him on the right knee, letting him give up and I ran away, running towards the trees and hearing him curse.

At that moment I just had to run away and get help, survive.

I did not take care of the dress getting dirty and tearing because of the small twigs that ended up blocking me, I did not even take care of the scratches on my legs and arms during that escape that would have saved my life.

« HELP! SOMEBODY HELP ME! »

There was no living soul and no one answered. I was too far from civilization at the time and my assailant was on my trail. I could well hear his footsteps behind me, even if I did not see him.

In the end I decided not to scream anymore, but to look for a hiding place and be silent, hoping that the man will leave.

But during my run, it ended up falling into a pit, a trap made by someone to catch some animal.

I fell badly and felt a sharp ankle that made me moan in pain.

I felt the body in pieces, but crawled to a darker side, trying to hide from its probable sight.

« But look! You did everything by yourself, sparing me the job of getting my hands dirty. I can say that my task is finished and that I can go back with this silk ribbon. I would love to see the face of that bastard when I tell him that his servant ran away from home to the woods and, while I was trying to bring him home, he launched himself towards a precipice, preferring death to be in the arms of a man. I wish you to live decently these few hours of life that remain animal. Goodbye!»

« N-no! Stop! Let me out! »

I tried to get up, but my ankle hurt as well as my hip. My dress was now ruined and, moreover, it also started to rain.

In the darkness I looked for a foothold, something to hold on and climb, but I did not find anything, and I fell several times.

I started screaming for help, hoping someone would pass by, but the rain covered the sound of my voice and its drops covered my sight.

I gave up and went back to that dark and dry corner, sitting on the ground and cuddling up on myself.

Maybe he was really right that man, I was really an animal.

I closed my eyes and tried to think of something else, but after a while, he heard footsteps and I took care.

If it was an animal?

I hid myself more and tried not to breathe, but a voice made me get up and give hope to my heart.

« Changmin! »

Although in the rain, I could well recognize that voice.
I leaned back toward that faint moonlight and beat my hand on the pebbles in those walls of earth.

« I'm here! Master! »

My screams did not take long to be heard and I saw his figure protrude from above the hole, looking completely wet.

« Changmin! »

« Master ... Yunho! »

My heart began to beat and hope rekindled itself, as I tried to climb again.

« No, stop! So you will hurt yourself. »

He disappeared and I stopped, hoping he had not left me alone, but then came back with a rope in his hand that brought it down slowly.

« Hold on to this and if you can not get up, I'll pull you up. All right? »

I nodded, stretching out my hand and taking that rope tightly and then starting to climb, even if the rain covered my sight.

He did not stay still, but he helped me and pulled the rope up, until my feet touched the ground, falling on him.

I was out.
I was alive.
I was safe.

I clung to him, frightened and in tears, trying to calm down and throw out all that repressed fear.

His hand began to caress my back, which turned out to be naked for a long tear of the dress.
My Lord's favorite garment was ruined.

I would have expected after a rebuke, but it never came, except that calm and sweet caress in the rain, lying on the ground.

« It's okay, Minnie ... it's okay ... »

He reassured me, standing up even without leaving me and taking me in his arms, moving towards his horse.

« We'll go to that cave for tonight. Tomorrow we will return home, also hoping that the rain will stop. »

I nodded my head on his shoulder, tight and shivering, as he began to walk, followed by his horse behind him.

« A-aatchiu! »

Sneezed, curled up with knees to my chest and eyes on the small fire that Yunho had turn on to warm up.

He had done all of it without even wanting my help, but just saying that he was sitting and resting.

He was looking in the bag he had brought with him, standing before me, lit by the faint warm light.

« Here. Take off those and wear this. It's dry luckily. »

He had pulled out a long warm robe and approached, handing it to me.

I took it, thanking him with his eyes and also thinking about how he could find me, how he had known I was there.

He often appeared when I was in trouble and sometimes he too, because of me.

I gave him my back, since I did not even want to go inside the cave to change and he did not even seem to look at me like that time.

Why was I sick?

I took off my wet clothes and put the warm, dry robe on my scratched leather and some blue fall marks.

Probably he had not noticed all this, because he had not even approached me, standing with his back against the wall of the cave, watching the rain falling violently.

I turned back to him, watching him, after seeing that beautiful dress now ruined.

«And .. and you? »

I noticed that he was not changing and that he was still wearing those wet clothes.

His eyes moved on mine and smiled at me, hinting a smile.

« I do not need. I'll be fine even with those that will dry, Minnie. »

«But you will get sick. »

I protested weakly, because I did not even can to raise my voice.

« I have a good health, Minnie. Worried about me? »

I blushed slightly at his question, nodding and noticing that he had not stopped smiling.

« Then I can do only one thing. »

He got up and began to take off his wet clothes, letting them fall to the ground.
A part of me wanted to look up and see it, while another part did not want, out of shame, but eventually won the first and looked up, feeling the cheeks get warmer and warmer.

It was the first time I had seen his body and many times I had imagined how strong it was, which he said at the time.

In the dim light of the fire, I saw his sculpted chest, followed by well-trained abs and legs as powerful as those of a horse.
His whole figure emanated strength, security and ...

I looked back, biting my lip and avoiding certain thoughts, when he sat down with only that single piece of dress that covered him from the waist up to mid-thigh.

He also untied his hair, which fell wet on his shoulder, of an almost shining black. It seemed a deity that a human common.

« Are you happy now? »

he says, watching and returning leaning against the wall in front of me, among us that little fire that warmed us.

« Yes but.. »

I got up and took his clothes that I put on a small branch that leaned towards the cave, so that they could dry out.

I felt his gaze on me again and this made me shiver more, thinking that we were alone there.

« Now I think ... I think they will dry quickly and tomorrow we could go back home ... »

I whispered, returning to my seat and bringing my knees back to my chest.

« Nae, we will go home tomorrow.
Rest Minnie ... you must be strong. »

I felt that he was approaching and I did not look up to see his body sculpted that gave me a strange feeling never felt before.

He wrapped his arms around me and made me lean against his now-dry chest, but with that scent that injected into my brain.

« Rest ... I will be there to protect you ..»

He whispered reassuringly, gently caressing my shoulder.

His hair dripped just on mine, but it did not matter. I was fine in his arms.
I felt really safe at that moment.

« Master .. I ... I apologize. »

I said slowly and looking at the crackling of the fire that was just faint.

« You have no reason to apologize ... you have acted according to your heart. »

What did he know?

« Do not ask questions, for those we have tomorrow. But now it saves energy and rests. »

« Yes, Master. »

« What did I tell you about how to call me when we are just the two of us? »

«Ok, Yunho ..»

« Good, Changmin ..»

A few minutes of silence passed, but another question surfaced in my mind.

« Yunho ... »

I did not receive an answer and I called him back, but he realized that he had fallen asleep because he was breathing slowly and relaxed.

I raised my head to see him.

His face was relaxed and his lips parted, while the hair adorned his face.

He really looked like a knight at the time, one of those that my sister told after school days.

I got up a little to make he stretch, so that his head was on my legs.

He murmured something in his sleep, but he returned quietly and stretched his hand over mine and sleep, squeezing it.

I do not know how long I looked at him, but I only know that, while my eyes closed and the bonfire was extinguished, the rain had stopped falling, leaving room for the birds singing.

Author

Here is the seventh chapter, where I waited a while before writing it (due to lack of inspiration, school, family and even some problems).
I hope you enjoy this chapter and in the next there will be REALLY something cute. <3

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