Chapter 4

Caden stood in his room with the bag almost slipping of his shoulder. He was seriously contemplating about taking a nap and skipping the bath and dinner, but he really didn’t want to sleep all sweaty and muddy. He dropped the bag beside the bed and opened it to put his phone, charger, and watch inside. Someone knocked on the door twice and Caden asked “Who’s it?”

“It’s Ardena. I have prepared your bath. I have also prepared to clean your clothes.” Caden was glad the bath was ready in time, or he would’ve just slept as he was. He opened the door to find Ardena standing while holding what he assumed would be used as a towel. The cloth was clean, but it was a bit discolored. He gestured for Ardena to lead the way and he followed behind her to the bath. They entered a six-by-six-meter room that had a bathtub made of wood and held together by nails and a flat metal band. He could see the water within it was steaming but no bubbles which meant it was warm but not boiling. There was a big bucket in the corner of the room that was probably for cleaning the clothes and it was right next to a big crate with a cork at the side near the bottom. Ardena went to a thin table nailed to the wall with a window and placed the towel on the table. There was a large sponge like scrubber and a big bar of solid soap on the table. The window had no cover or curtain, or a window door, but it was on the second floor so no one could see inside.

The bath, as simple and as it was, was just what Caden wanted. Caden saw that Ardena hadn’t left the room and was still standing next to the table with her hands in a knot in front of her apronish cloth on her waist. Caden thought that she probably wasn’t going to leave unless he tells her to, which made Caden realized he hadn’t been with a woman for over a month. Ardena seemed like a decent woman, something he thought would not be the case had she been an actual prostitute.

Caden took off his shirt, and Ardena got to see firsthand his hardened abs and chest. His biceps, while not as big as heavy weight body builder, were equally hard and toned in a way that was pleasing to the eyes. Ardena was smiling internally and was excited since she got a very different and a very gentlemanly vibe from Caden. Next, Caden took off his pants, and Ardena got to see his rock-hard cock, in all its eight and half inch glory. It was a thick as her wrists if her wrists were swollen from a sprain. She could already feel moisture beginning to form between her legs.

Caden got into the tub and submerged his lower half into steaming water. He could feel his muscles relax and his stress of the day leaking out every second. Ardena got behind him and the bathtub after picking up the sponge and the soap. She dipped the soap into the water right next to his submerged cock. She then rubbed the warm soap on his shoulders before massaging them with her hands. She followed it by using the sponge to rub his shoulders and then proceeded to his chest. She was just about done doing his chest when Caden grabbed her wrist, firmly but not to tight, and asked her to join him in the bath. Ardena’s cheeks were a bit flushed, but she nodded and got up to take off her clothes.

She opened the knot for her apronish cloth and then the lacy string on her back for the waitress dress she was wearing. Caden could tell that Ardena is a mother. She was plump in a way that meant she had a child, but not overweight, fat, or unappealingly thick. She was stepping carefully into the tub when Caden moved forward to grab and pull her to his chest. Her soft breasts were squeezed between her Caden. Caden looked her in the eyes in a way that made her swoon. He lightly pecked her on the lips before kissing her again with gusto.

Caden left the bath feeling both refreshed and post-coital tire. Ardena was in a sexual bliss. The man had her screaming with orgasms after orgasms like never before. She lost count after her sixth because she could barely focus from all the sensations she never knew existed. This man did things to her that no other man had ever done to her or her friends. She knew Caden is a mysterious man and not just because he came from a foreign place. Yet even she could tell that was just a part of his mysteriousness, his handsome, sexy, and gentlemanly mysteriousness. Ardena decided that she will do everything she can to keep him attracted to her, at least for as long as he was still here in Duskholm. In her eyes, Caden was a man that even the Baron with all his wealth and resources won’t be able to compete, even if Caden was poor.

Caden got to his room and changed into his clothes that were still dirty because Ardena turned into a vegetable after so many orgasms. He did his best to clean the major stains but gave up after a while and just wore them, deciding that he just tell Gaius to have the bed sheet cleaned in the morning. He went downstairs after ensuring his room door was locked and secured with his bag inside. The moment he stepped of the stairs; he saw everyone was looking at him while pausing whatever they were doing. Caden didn’t know what to make of every single person looking his way and so he carefully took the next step towards the bar and that was when the whispering started.

Men were looking at him with envy while still nodding at him as if he had done something incredibly remarkable. The women were whispering to each other with their eyes glued to Caden. Most of the women in this inn were lower class women with either their husbands or as a waitress and whores. There were some middle-class women here as well, with their husbands or their group of friends. All of them had those lusty desire looks in their eyes.

Caden had barely moved five steps away from the stairs when Gaius came up to him and said “For all that’s holy and demonic, I have never heard a women scream from pleasure so loud and so ... much. What the hell did ya do that got her screaming cuz I never heard even a moan from her before in this inn.”

“Uh...” Caden didn’t know what to say but was glad Gaius was too hyped that he interrupted him.

“Never mind. Listen kid, ya can have two glasses of beer on me, just cuz the entertainment ya provided and cuz she really needed that. Poor woman had been through a lot, and this would have probably gotten her to relieve her stress. Holy Thaius knows other have tried to help her.”

“Thanks, I think.” Caden replied.

“Listen, kid, I’ll get ya a table near the window and dinner with the two on the house beers. Fill yer self up cuz Thaius knows you’ll be the talk of the town,” Gaius said with a mighty chuckle.

“Fuck”

“Yep, ya will be getting to do that a lot very soon,” Gaius chuckled while leading Caden to the table near a window. It was a table for two, with a night view of the street where people were walking to their homes or heading to the bar or the whore house. Gaius gestured for Caden to sit and the said “I’ll get ya the dinner and beer,” before leaving to get the said dinner and beer.

Caden heard his stomach rumble and just hoped whatever ‘dinner’ he’ll get would at the least be healthy enough to eat to his fill. He was deep in his thoughts about sanitary food when a woman stood next to him and tapped his hand. He looked at her and guessed that she was one of the middle-class women dressed to impress whoever she came with in the inn. Caden asked with a friendly smile “Sorry, how can I help you?”

“I’m Dertha and you can help me by doing to me what you did to that wench up there,” she replied with arrogant seduction. “I might even get you a job as my personal guard, if you know what I’m implying. That is, if you can do it better than what you did to the wench.”

Caden did not like the arrogance and certainly wasn’t going to do it as an order by someone. “No thanks, I’m not looking for a job and that ‘wench’ was plentiful enough to keep me satisfied that I won’t need another woman.”

Surprised that not only did this low-class peasant hadn’t jumped to accept her offer but rejected it entirely, she countered with an even more arrogant tone and a hint of threat “You can consider it an honor for yourself as you’ll get to be the personal guard of Baron Hictagar’s daughter.”

“I understand, and while I am flattered by your offer, I am not looking for a job and I have other pressing matters that require my attention.”

Nobody had the guts to reject anything she offered or wanted. ‘This man should be grovelling at my feet for this honor’. She leaned forward and replied “Tsk tsk tsk, it will be your loss. I get what I want, even if it requires a less than savory means of acquiring what I want,” and then leaned back to leave. “I will be sitting with my friends should you change your mind,” she said as she left to her table.

Caden watched her go back to her table before looking out the window. Threats don’t exactly bother him. Having been on covert and black ops missions alone and with a team, he could take threats without worrying too much about consequences. Luckily, he didn’t have to think about the conversation at all as a steaming plate full of chicken and curry and two glasses of beer was brought on the tray by the waitress. She placed them on the table while standing a tad too close to Caden. He could feel the softness of her breast on his arm when she leaned forward. She gave him a wink and left with the empty tray.

The food did taste good, surprisingly. The beer tasted like piss but fermented. Caden left the table and went upstairs to sleep for the night. We walked past Dertha and her friends without even a glance at them, which caused her to fume, and she already started to think of unsavory means to get him to accept her offer.