double update. read chapter 27 first

Tao woke up minutes after being carried down to see Sehun examining his wounds. He was completely tied now and on a bedding in what looked like the basement of the house. He brought his eyes back form inspecting his location to Sehun's grim face. He didn't say anything, and just stared.

Sehun picked up a plate and brought food to Tao's mouth. "You need to eat. You will be too weak for tomorrow otherwise. Seriously, you look so tired that you have these amazing dark circles...Uh, I meant these prominent dark circles..."

Tao lip twiched, "I was born with these amazing dark circles. They suit me, I think...?"

Sehun chuckled, "Well, aren't you a humble one."

"You must love yourself for others to love you too. I just learned that the hard way, but it was a lesson well learned. But what are you implying?" Tao said with a flirtacious glimmer in his eyes, "I am pretty humble. I haven't let my awesomeness get to my head!"

Sehun giggled, "Of course. Your awesomeness. uh-huh"

"You're just jealous that you can't reach my level of fabulosity."

"This better be just a height joke...which will get you hit, but not as much. Afterall, I am a ball of condensed awesomeness myself."

"What was that you were saying about humbleness?"

Sehun giggled and hit Tao's tied arm.

"Oh yeah," Tao said with a sarcastic roll of his eyes, "hit the incapacitated prisoner. Real nice of you."

Sehun looked sad and apologetic as he continued feeding Tao.

"May I ask now what exactly is going on? One second you're being all sweet and inviting me to dinner and the other you trick my to your basement. And I am pretty sure this is not a kink of yours... hmm?"

"How can you even joke about that? You're literally tied up with no idea what will happen to you in the future. Are you usually this carefree?"

"I like to live life on the edge?"

Sehun sighed, "You will be tried for attempt murder."

"What? On who? On that bear I killed a few days ago? In my defence I was hungry and it would have eaten me if I hadn't eaten me. Can you blame me? And since when did people start getting charged for killing bears? Last I checked they were not on the endangered list. Plus this isn't poaching. It was strictly for survival purpo-"

"Oh shut up will you? If I had known that you were such a blabbermouth, I would have given the guard duty to someone else."

Tao laughed while raising an eyebrow, "You like me! That's why you took this duty."

Sehun refused to let Tao flirt him into a relaxed mindset. "You will be tried for attempting murder on Prince Minseok."

Tao sat up and refused the next morsel that Sehun was giving him, "What do you mean murder attempt on Minseok? I did nothing! I was so worried about him because he wandered off and got lost. I could never even imagine hurtin