She Belongs To The Devil

0Damien was still carrying his backpack even after traveling for some good minutes.      0

So Theodore asked him, "Damien, why don't you take off your bag? You can keep it on the seat. It won't fall."     

Damien nodded and did as Theodore had asked him.     

He then pushed himself all the way back so that he could rest his back on the cushioned backrest.     

And he resumed gazing at the houses of the village.     

At first, he felt very dizzy because the houses would keep on going behind them and he would constantly have to move his eyes and head from side to side to keep up with the view.     

Theodore was sitting right opposite Damien. And he was covering his mouth and was enjoying that child going through trouble in adjusting his eyes with the carriage's pace.     

Damien almost fell down after looking back and forth through the window for nearly five minutes.     

Theodore hurriedly caught Damien's head and laughed at that poor boy.     

Damien tightly closed his eyes and said, "This…" He forgot the word 'kya rage' so he instead said, "This running box is nice but it makes me dizzy."     

Theodore chuckled again and finally taught Damien how to look outside. "You shouldn't look at the things that are very close to the window."     

They had by now crossed the village. The things that were visible were fields, forests, and hills in distance.     

Theodore pointed at the far end of the field covered with mustard flowers and said, "Look at those yellow flowers over there. You won't feel dizzy then."     

Damien glanced at Theodore with suspicious eyes but followed what he said.     

And after some seconds of staring outside just as Theodore had taught, Damien's eyes widened. And he excitedly shouted, "I can finally see! I mean… I don't feel dizzy now."     

"Good." Theodore smiled at the kid and said, "You can ask me any questions if you find something interesting outside."     

And Damien did just that. He would ask the names of things or animals he found interesting. Every once in a while, he would also ask the names of the colors that he had never seen before.     

And he would try to repeat them so that he would remember them.     

However, there were too many things for him to remember in a few minutes. So everything was already jumbled up in his mind.     

Nevertheless, he found out two things on the journey. That the name of the toy that Ariel had given him was deer and not a cow. The cow looked completely different. And the thing that shone brightly in the sky was not the blood moon but it was called the sun.     

After watching the blue sky, the green forests, the yellow and green fields, and the animals and humans for almost two hours, Damien fell asleep.     

Theodore glanced at the dozing kid and then thought, "Well, I guess this is enough of the bumpy road experience."     

He then knocked on the wooden wall of the carriage and asked the coachman, "Stop the carriage."     

And when the carriage came to a halt, Theodore said, "We will teleport from here."     

"As you wish, Your Royal Highness," Theodore heard the coachman saying.     

Theodore then carefully carried Damien and his bag in his arms and said to the coachman before teleporting away, "Okay, you can return back to the mansion now."     

Theodore teleported Damien to one of the guest rooms in their quarter and lay him down on the bed.     

And he teleported to find Adeline.     

Adeline was still in their room, sipping a cup of warm tea.     

"Hey, you're here already?" Adeline greeted Theodore with a smile.     

Theodore stole the teacup from Adeline's hand and sipped it. "I missed you. So I came back early."     

Adeline scoffed and shook her head. "You are being too dramatic."     

"How so?" Theodore leaned in and kissed Adeline passionately. And he asked in a ragged whisper, "Am I not even allowed to miss my wife?"     

Adeline simply smiled and pulled Theodore for one more kiss.     

After finishing the kiss and the tea, Theodore asked his wife, "Is Ariel awake? Damien is in the guest room."     

"Let's go and see." Adeline got up on her feet.     

"See who?"     

"First Ariel and then Damien." Adeline's lips curved up when she said, "I want to see what Lilith's son looks like."     

Though Adeline never got the chance to directly interact with Lilith, she had started to feel close to her. Mostly because she would get to hear about her from Theodore and Ariel. And as Theodore had told her that Damien looked more like Lilith, she wanted to see him.     

When the two of them went to Ariel's room, they found out that she was already wide awake.     

As Adeline hadn't informed Osanna that Ariel was expecting some guest today, Osanna had already prepared the little Princess for the class.     

"Dada!" Ariel ran towards Theodore and hugged him the moment she saw him. "Why didn't you come home yesterday?" she pouted and also asked, "Did you go to secretly meet uncle Luciper?"     

Theodore gave a mysterious smile and teased his daughter, "No. Actually, I secretly went to meet Damien."     

Ariel looked deeply betrayed by her father and she was on the verge of crying.     

"You are so bad…" she whispered and turned away. She started crying and throwing a temper tantrum.     

Adeline elbowed Theodore for making their daughter cry.     

She picked Ariel in her arms and said to her while wiping her tears, "Don't cry, baby. Your father has a surprise for you."     

But Ariel half-shrugged her shoulders and sobbed, "No. I don't want a surprise. I want to go and meet Damien."     

Theodore leaned close to his daughter and teased her yet again, "I was thinking of taking you to meet him. But I don't want to do that since you are crying."     

"Theo!" Adeline raised her brows, non-verbally asking him to stop teasing their daughter.     

However, his tactic worked because Ariel stopped crying and asked, "I won't cry. Please take me to meet him."     

Theodore flicked his brows at Adeline as if to say that he was better at making Ariel stop crying. He forgot that he was the one to make her cry in the first place.     

And Theodore touched Adeline's shoulder and said, "Okay, here we go then."