She Belongs To The Devil

Hawisa and Osanna were both sitting at the foot of Adeline's bed while facing Adeline. The Princess truthfully explained most of the details about her and Theodore's story. Both of the maids were on their toes the whole time they were listening to the story that was full of exciting, sad, as well as unexpected details.

When the story finally ended, both Hawisa and Osanna took some moment to process the out-of-the-world love story.

Adeline couldn't tell if the maids were mad at her or if they were just shocked when she looked at their faces.

Finally, Osanna broke the silence and spoke while her eyes still looked dazed, "You met your fiancé when you were three and we are knowing about it just now? Just how ignorant were we to have never even noticed that you were hiding such a huge secret from us?"

Adeline took a deep breath and then apologized to the seemingly hurt maids, "I'm sorry that I kept it from both of you until now. I was… I don't know… afraid maybe…"

Both the maids sure felt bad that Adeline hid such a great thing from them. However, both of them understood why she did that. It was not every day that a human and a devil would fall in love with each other.

Hawisa shifted a little closer to Adeline and lovingly placed her palm on Adeline's knee. "We had never heard, neither seen a devil being kind and loving. So, I'm pretty sure that we would have acted very differently if you had told us before today that you were in love with a devil."

"Maybe we wouldn't even have given you a chance to explain everything in detail and would have probably complained to the King or done something drastic. So, I don't blame you for not telling about Prince Theodore." Hawisa gave a soft smile, reassuring Adeline that she did not need to be so apologetic towards them.

Osanna also gave a polite smile and added to what Hawisa had said, "If we hadn't already known about the good deeds that Prince Theodore did today, then we would probably still be struggling to accept the fact that you are going to be married to the Devil."

"I'm so glad that you two aren't mad at me right now," Adeline smiled and opened her arms to hug both of them.

While she was tightly hugging her caretakers and the closest women she had to a mother, her tummy decided that it was the right time to growl. All three of them ended up bursting into laughter considering how loud the growl was.

It was already very late at night by the time they were done sharing the heart-to-heart conversation. And none of them had dinner yet.

So Hawisa suggested, "Adeline, why don't we bring dinner to you? Sorry, we were so consumed in listening to the story that we even forgot to keep track of the time."

"Yes, that would be perfect. I'm really hungry. And I need to get this bitter taste off of my tongue." Adeline wrinkled her nose and pursed her lips.

Osanna chuckled and lovingly pinched Adeline's cheek. "Okay. We will make sure to bring something sweet as well so that you can wash off that aftertaste."

Adeline's eyes twinkled when she happily clasped her hands together and said, "I would really appreciate that."

Both Hawisa and Osanna left the room to get dinner for Adeline. After they left, one of the guards knocked on the door and said from outside, "Your Highness, we are right outside. If there is anything you need or if there are any intruders then please give a shout."

"Sure, I will. Thank you!" Adeline replied from inside and lied back down on the bed. It felt really new to have the guards watching over her at all hours. 

She tried to consciously keep her mind out of today's incident and everything that went wrong. She tried thinking of the good times she had with her father. But that only made her want to cry.

She thought of sleeping until her food came but only if falling asleep was that easy, especially when there were so many things going on in her head.

And she recalled saying to Theodore that she would talk with him after getting treated. Though she didn't want to keep on bothering him by summoning him, she couldn't wait to talk things out with him.

So she brought her hand closer to her face and admired the ring for a while before finally kissing it.

She waited for some time for Theodore to appear in the room. She kept on darting her eyes around the room but… nothing. "Why is Theodore not here yet?" she furrowed her brows and tried kissing the ring again.

She waited for a minute or two but again, Theodore was nowhere in the room. "Did something happen to the ring?" Adeline now began to panic.

She sat up on her bed and thought while aggressively rubbing and kissing the ring, "Or did something happen to Theo? No, no… what could possibly happen to him?"

In her anxiousness, she happened to forget that she had already used the summoning quota of her ring for that day. However, it was already midnight. So when she kissed the ring again, the dark mist hovered on the floor right in front of her bed.

And as if the ring had waited until the maids to arrive for it to work, both Hawisa and Osanna also entered the room while carrying the trays and a small bed table.

"Oh no!" Adeline wanted to do something about the situation but it was already too late.

It so happened that right when the maids entered the room, Theodore appeared on the floor in his Devil form. His massive wings were spread out on the floor and his glowing red eyes were staring directly into the souls of those poor maids.

"Adeline, we brought some hot soup and some sweeeeeaaahhhhhhhhhh…" Osanna screamed at the top of her voice and threw the tray full of food at Theodore.

Adeline widened her eyes and clasped her mouth with both of her palms.

Theodore flinched when the hot bowl of soup fell right on his face. He licked his lips and sarcastically said, "Tastes good. Would have been nice if I got to enjoy the full bowl."

He then picked up a sweet that was on his wing and put it in his mouth. And he got up while chewing it and flapping his wings to get the food off of them.

All this while, Hawisa looked as though she was stuck in time. Only her hands were trembling and the table in her hand was giving out rattling noises.

"Huaaahhhhhhh!" And as though her mind finally resumed working again, she finally let out a muffled scream and her hand happened to jerk involuntarily.

Although she already knew that it was Theodore, she ended up throwing the table at him and passed out on the floor with a thud.

"What happened? Is there an intruder?" The guards pushed open the door and barged in all at once, almost bumping themselves onto the maids and Theodore.. They abruptly came to a halt before they poked themselves into Theodore's spread-out wings.