All Chapters of Touched by the master: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

LUCA One thing about being in chains was that they always itched. Around the wrists and around the ankles. And one hardly ever got used to it.I preferred being in one of Lord Kael's cages. At least I got to walk around without being shackled at my joints."Stand in a straight line so I can see your faces!" Chief Steward Maren said. He was in charge of all the male slaves in Lord Kael's harem. There was a female harem too, but it was in another compound, divided by a wall.The ladies over there came to serve us sometimes when Lord Kael was throwing a feasts for his visitors or just to celebrate the death of one of his numerous enemies.The rules were very simple and alarming. Speak when you are spoken to, obey every command, do not tell a lie, and do not sleep with a female slave because she doesn't belong to you but to Lord Kael alone. However, Lord Kael also had peculiar tastes with men. He could pick any make slave of his choice to have sex with. He got the good stuff, because t

LORD KAELAfter the injured slave had been taken away and the girl escorted out, I ran a hand through my hair, disturbing the perm."Oh, now you've gone to spoil your perm, Kael," Elias said, and he sipped more of his wine. He was more concerned about my hair then he was concerned about my life. I never really understood the man but I knew he was someone that I couldn't trust as a political ally. Elias Thorne was good at digging up secrets and I knew he had a lot of them, mostly about people he considered both friends and enemies, because you never knew what might turn up in the future. And it was the reason why people of influence entertained him, just to get him on their side. Same reason why I had brought him into my estate and broken a very important rule. Now, he wasn't even concerned that I was just about to get offed. "Aren't you bothered about me?" I had the zeal to ask. "How so?" he put down his cup. "Someone just tried to kill me, Elias," I said. "That was your folly

LUCAI was already awake and eating when Chief Steward Maren came to see me the next morning. "I heard you fainted last night," he started. "The medicine made me feel woozy, master."He nodded once. "My wife could not wait. Now she can't stop talking about you."I didn't know if that was a good thing or a bad thing. "Now, you are going to put her out of your mind. We go to see Lord Kael."When I heard those words, I could feel the whole world come crashing down on me like rain. But this was much more than rain. It was one hell of a flood. And it felt some someone had opened the gates of heaven just for that purpose.I could not bring myself to move. What if he had another visitor for me to entertain? Because there was possibly no other reason as to why he would call on me. "Move your ass!" the Chief Steward barked at me.My meal was unfinished and my cup of water was halfway gone but those were the least of my problems. My legs finally moved, only out of more dose of fear. I follo