[BL] The knight commander's son

Chapter 3

A maid was waiting outside and when he saw Alden he approached to take Amauri with him:

"It's time for the young master's bath."

Amauri immediately started yelling when he saw him try to separate him from Alden:

"No! I want mommy! I don't want to bathe!"

The maid seemed really troubled by his reaction and couldn't reason with him at all. Alden turned Amauri in his arms to make him look at him and he smiled gently:

"Sweety, do you know why we take baths?"

Amauri shook his head.

"That's not a problem, I'll tell you. We take baths once a day because it is important for our health to be clean. Do you understand?"

Amauri nodded but Alden sensed he didn't.

"If you don't take a bath every day you could get sick. That's why everyone takes at least one bath a day. Even adults. Do you understand?

-Yes.

-Then are you going to go take your bath?"

Amauri seemed to hesitate.

"I won't go anywhere, don't worry. While you bathe, this nice young man will show me around. We will talk about adult things which could be boring for you.

-Okay. I'll bathe.

-Great!"

Alden gave Amauri to the maid and he didn't cry about the bath anymore. He waved to Alden and quickly forgot how he felt about the bath a few seconds before. He clung to the maid with a huge smile and started babbling about bubbles and how important soap was for our health.

Seeing him, Alden laughed before turning to Janyn:

"I'm sorry, we were saying? Oh right, nice to meet you, Janyn. My name is Alden and I guess I am Amauri's parent now.

-Nice to meet you, Mister Alden. I have to admit everyone is quite confused by the recent turn of events but I am relieved to see how gentle you are with Amauri. I understand why he likes you so much.

-Aww thank you. He is really cute I have to admit. Poor thing seemed so vulnerable in that alley I was really scared for a second.

-You saved his life, this is not a small affair. Every knight in this mansion will forever be grateful to you.

-I'm not so sure about that.

-What do you mean?

-I know a few who are being screamed at by now. I won't apologize to them. They were the ones who lost a child and they were being really suspicious. I couldn't have looked in the mirror if I had given Amauri to them."

Janyn laughed.

"I am sure they will soon forget about it. The commander will give them a hard time but he won't fire them and deep down they know you did the right thing, trust me.

-I hope so. I don't really want to be on bad terms with them. Especially if I'll be staying for a whole year.

-Don't worry about it. I have no doubt that they are going to love you.

-Thank you but we'll see about that."

Janyn showed him around the mansion. He showed him his room, the kitchens, the garden... Alden really liked how beautiful and big everything was and thought he would have a good time living here despite everything. When they arrived in front of a bunch of stairs, Janyn stopped:

"This staircase leads to Sir Farroworb's isle.

-I know I shouldn't go there. I don't want him to kill me in my sleep. I just hope he is not somnambulist."