On My Way: The Demon King Made Me His

Chapter 60: Report

"You have come back already ?" King Aenon asked the Grand Prince the moment he entered the palace and went to visit his his uncle. "How did it go?" The king asked him. King Aenon was busy reading a letter from a civilian requesting to help him with the crop rotation for the next few years since he lost his land gambling and reflecting upon his mistakes. Aenon had already punished him for gambling illegally making his family stand homeless but he wanted to give the man a chance and see if can do it right.

Aiden watched the king making a wise decision and turned away. He didn't know how to break the news. Aiden looked so disappointed and angry. He was not able to accept the fact Huo'er didn't accompany him back to the Water Kingdom. He was not able accept the change in his behaviour.  He couldn't believe that Huo'er stood like he doesn't know a thing about who Aiden was. He wondered how Huo'er could be so heartless as he was, standing with the woman who was the sole reason for Aqau's painful death. 

The gruesome memories flashed before his eyes. Villainess Volca fighting with her only best friend, the Water Princess who cherished her, while her mother Fiona cheated and stabbed Aqua from the back, with her cold toxic dagger, losing her life fighting for her love. Her death went in vain for guy who us not worth it. He remembered how he overreacted and killed Aaron for a man like Huo'er regretting everything now. He felt angry and frustrated to think that he gave up on Aqua. She shouldn't have died for an ungrateful man who moved quickly when he got another woman beside him, not even caring what she did. He wished he stopped Aqua from pursuing her love. He wished only if he could turn back time. 

Aiden took the jug of wine kept in King's tea table in the court and gulped them down at one shot. It took Aenonby surprise. He was thirsty and wanted to get drunk. He at first kept his mouth shut. But King Aenon began to question him. He made up his kind and let himself loose. He couldn't handle it anymore. The ministers left the court and there was nobody else except the two of them. 

"Give up on him, he is no good, " Aiden said looking far away.

"What?" King Aenon did not understand what he was talking about. 

"Huo'er,  give up on him, let's not expect anything from him now on," Aiden made it clear this time.

"Why?" King asked him.

"What if I tell you, our Aqua was in love with a wrong person and he is not worthy of anything in the universe anymore, forget her love, forget what she did for him forget how she died, but he is not worthy for even a penny?" He had tears in his eyes,  glistening.

"What did you find out?" King Aenon lost his excitement. He felt the bad vibes from Aiden. He couldn't handle when he tears in the eyes if Grand Prince. 

"I found him, yes I did, the single crystal led me the way, to him, I found them, but in a hotel room with the Demon Queen Regent, that wench," he said. King got up from the throne, shocked. 

Grand Prince knelt down on the floor and bowed, touching his forehead on the ground. He cried. I failed. I failed you, I failed her, and more importantly, I failed me and wronged me. I shouldn't have given up, I should never have let her convince me to stop myself and let her do whatever with him," he kept saying, as tears fell down on the floor, lying in the same position. "I should have listened to my heart, forgive me your highness, forgive me, please grant me the permission to go back and bring him forcefully and make him pay for the ungrateful attitude, he has wronged the Water Realm,"

Aenon held Aiden by shoulder and made him stand back on his legs. Aenon felt sad to see his nephew breaking in front of him. Aenon finally accepted the fact that Aiden always stayed with him for his daughter than anything. He could feel the pain of Aiden also in his heart, the regret of not stopping her from committing the mistake, believing in her bad decision.  He did not want anymore of the news about Huo'er but Aiden reported everything anyway. Aenon sat there making his heart hard like a stone, throwing away his respect for the Demon King. Nothing mattered anymore. 

"He was dining with Volca, I forced myself into the room and we duelled. I did not want to hurt them and he looked weak, something seemed off but the question he asked Volca and the way he reacted to me, when I heard them Pa, I no longer could forgive him nor had the heart to bring him back home," he said. 

"He is a demon, why would you bring him back?"  King Aenon tired to act normal whole he was angry inside. It directly affected the nature. The signs of storm began to show in the sky. The waves hit the cliff strongly with the sound echoing all over the Water Palace. 

Aenon controlled his temper and let his conscious control his powers. 

"He is no longer tied to our Clan, end everything with the King, but let the treaties go on, people did not do anything for deserving a suffering, we should not wrong Dritan though, he was the only good demon the universe had seen ever,"  Aiden nodded and inhaled, taking a control over his emotions. "Let's wait and not tell anyone about his come back, let others find it out, we cannot tell how the reactions would be, stay neutral for few weeks till we go on search, wait till our reaction us required," the king advices before Aiden took off. 

"I get it, your highness, I won't let anybody know," he assured the king. Aenon nodded and watched Aiden till he disappeared from his sight. 

Aiden walked back to his usual secret hideout outside the palace gates. An abandoned cottage near the dragon waterfalls towards the east of the kingdom where the flower fairies settled down and do cultivation. 

He took couple of bottles of plum vine as he left the palace and apparated into the cottage. 

The place was near since he often spent time in there. He has set it up as a normal house. He entered the cottage and cleaned it using his spells. He lighted the candles everywhere and produced a plate dried fruits from the kitchen cabin. The cottage had only one long  room for everything. 

He sat on the coat and started opening his wine jars. He wanted to immerse himself in sorrow and get used it and move on from it slowly. Then he immediately wanted to find his love and bring her back. And this time, to make her his and give not away. 

He drank litres of alcoholic wine until he made sure he was high and drunk. 

He recalled some of the times he spent with Aqua. And one he cherished the most was when the first time he felt his heart pounded fast.

"Aqua, careful while you climb down the tree, you never listen to me these days," Queen Rivera shouted at her elsest daughter who climbed the trees to pluck some ripe peaches. 

Aiden could hear the giggling and jokes made by the notorious sister Aqua and Milan. Seeing her sister, Milan followed her footsteps and climbed right behind her. King Aenon did not bother about any of these, letting his daughters do as they wish while the queen kept bickering. 

Aiden's eyes searched for the one person specifically. Suddenly he came back to his senses and stoooed gazing at her. "What am I doing? Since when did I start caring?" He talked inside his head, turning away. "How can that be?" He knew always care for the her, and more for Aqua, enjoying every second he spent with her. Never had he realised about his feelings though. 

He was only a few feet away from the tree. He walked over busy with his own thoughts. He waited to help the girls safely land on the ground as well as safely pack the fruit for them. But at that time, when Aqua stepped down, she missed a step and fell on her back. 

Everyone who witnessed the fall screamed loudly, even herself, but she landed safely somehow by luck," Aiden's heart thumbed fast and loud. He forgot to breath for some seconds. The face close to his, all red and cold. The eyes shut tight and hands gripped tightly around his neck, Aqua held onto him scared, lying in his arms. He did not expect that he wound be able to catch her. He noticed how pink her looked and felt her breath on his neck, fast and uneven. He could tell that she got really scared though she pretends to be all tough and strong. He smiled in that moment. He couldn't help but smile wide as he carried her. He looked at her again, as she slowly opened her eyes. "Don't worry you are safe," he assured her and she sighed and lay her head on his shoulders. 

"I thought I would break everything in my body and get killed by mother," she whispered closely in his ears which tickled him and he tired to stop her from doing it. He couldn't accept the fact he admired her as a woman. And he felt his feelings growing rapidly like a fire would conquer the surface. He wasn't sure about what to do. 

Aiden smiled while he laid drunk on the coat drifting off to his other old memories and this time it was different.