After the maid was done changing the bedding, Sebastian carried his young master to the bed and laid him down.
He had the maid take away beef porridge and asked her to get pumpkin porridge instead.
The maid seeing the serious look on Sebastian's face didn't dare to waste time and immediately went to the kitchen to get it.
Sebastian poured some warm honey water for Mikhail and handed it to him to drink but seeing his hands shaking while trying to hold the glass still, he just helped him drink the water.
The water helped with Mikhail's throat as it didn't hurt as much when trying to talk.
Knock, knock.
Sebastian went to check the door and saw that the maid had came back with a tray of warm pumpkin porridge.
He took the tray from her and went to Mikhail's bedside. Seeing that he didn't have a bad reaction to it. He slowly fed him the porridge.
Only after he had seen his young master eat the last spoonful of porridge did he feel better.
"Young master, would you like some more?" Sebastian carefully asked as he wiped his young master's mouth.
"No, brother." Mikhail shook his head and replied with a voice that was still hoarse but sounded a lot better than before.
Filling his stomach gave Mikhail some strength to think about his current situation.
Right now, there were still three weeks left before the day he was forced into that doomed entanglement. There was a major event happening in a week which had originally made him fall in love with that adulterous bastard.
It was the Royal ball which happened once a month where all the nobles from around the empire specifically came to attend.
Mikhail usually attended the ball with his father and brothers. After which, he would stay with his friends but that time all of them were too busy to attend.
He didn't doubt his friends. After all, they had been the ones who had always looked out for him even after his marriage, knew everything that was going on and were always there for him.
That had been the time when he had gotten into an altercation with the Crown Prince, Eugene Demetrius. And just to make things clear, that uncouth bastard started it. He usually didn't interact with other nobles because he couldn't bear their hypocrisy.
Mikhail used to believe that the Crown Prince was the worst hypocrite of them all but who would have thought that his own husband would be in a league of his own when it comes to hypocrisy.
Anyways, the fight had escalated to where the emperor and his father had to intervene. With how his father usually treated him, it went about as well as you could imagine.
Mikhail was forced to bow and apologize to that uncouth bastard. Just then, the empress decided to rub salt on his wounds by making him remove all the jewelry he had on him as compensation.
Oh And did he mention that he was drenched in wine? That uncouth bastard had emptied his full glass of red wine on his head making him feel sticky and disgusting.
He had to leave that party in such a embarrassing state.
For the Young Mikhail, that humiliation had been too much to bear. Add on the fact that he had to wait for his father and brothers to be done with socializing before they could leave.
At the time, he had gone to cry at the Royal garden and that's when he met that adulterous bastard who had followed him to "comfort" him. After then there had been many "chance encounters" over the next two weeks where one thing led to another and he fell in love.
Now that he thinks about it, everything from the start must have been planned by him.
Otherwise why would the Crown Prince who usually tried to keep his distance from him suddenly pick a fight out of nowhere?
This time however I'll show those bastards just who the name "Mikhail Raelynn" belonged to. And for that, I urgently need to recuperate. I'll show them my best appearance and leave that ball with my head held high.
There are health regenerative potions here but they did more harm than good to his body so he generally never used them.
"Brother!" Mikhail called out to Sebastian who was in the closet.
"Yes, Young master?" Replied Sebastian emerging from the closet.
"Sebastian, I want health regenerative potions." Mikhail said with determination.
"Young Master, you know that those things aren't good for your body. Although they might provide temporary strength for you, it is not good for long term." Sebastian said as he came over and patted his dejected Young master's head.
Unable to bear to see him unhappy, Sebastian made a compromise.
"Alright, how about this? If you rest completely for 2 days, I'll get you some regenerative potions." Sebastian said as he looked down on the now beautifully smiling face of his Young master.
"Thank you Brother! You're the best!" Mikhail beamed hugging Sebastian's waist tightly and rubbing his head on his stomach.
'Ah Our Young master is the cutest, most well behaved child.'
Sebastian in turn rubbed his head gently with a satisfied smile on his face.
"Brother can you please call for my friends to come here?" Mikhail requested while enjoying the head rubs.
Sebastian's eyes subtly darkened as he looked down to make eye contact with his young master.
"Young master, are you sure?" Sebastian confirmed with a serious face.