She Belongs To The Devil

And as though Theodore had read Adeline's mind, he walked so close to Adeline that his magnificent body was right in front of her eyes. Theodore slowly ran his fingers down her hand and then grabbed her palms. Then he lifted her little palms and pressed them against his chest. And he slowly guided her hands around his tempting body.

Theodore lifted his hands and let her explore around his body on her own. Adeline forgot all about what she saw earlier and began to shamelessly run her hands all over him. She ran her fingers on his pecs, and slowly moved down to his stomach while drooling invisibly.

She suddenly came back to her senses as she was about to reach his navel.. She abruptly lifted away her hand as though she had just touched fire and she jumped back a few steps.

Theodore frowned because of this sudden reaction from Adeline. "What happened? You don't like it?"

And out of the blue, Adeline gritted from between her teeth, "Don't try to shut my mouth by showing me your bare chest. You might easily fall for some bare chest, that is not necessarily mine, but I am not like that."

Theodore puckered his lips and instantly closed his eyes before Adeline could see them turn red. And he exhaled slowly, trying his best not to get angry at Adeline. He didn't want to show her that side of him.

Theodore was trying his best not to snap at Adeline but she kept on pushing him to the edge.

Adeline folded her arms and kept on yelling, "You don't even tell me what you two were talking about and you keep on dodging every question that I ask. If you can't give an answer to me, then just… then just leave me alone."

There were things that Theodore couldn't tell her. He didn't want to make her worried by telling her that Lillian was using that woman to kill her father. But this stubborn Princess was not willing to let go of that topic. Everything that he was doing was for her and there she was, suspecting him of cheating on her with that succubus, who was nowhere as attractive as her by the way.

Theodore finally lost his cool.

He revealed his burning red eyes and growled in a suppressed voice, "I have never been with another woman other than you and I never will. Do I have to jump in hellfire to make you believe that I didn't do any shenanigans with that woman?"

Adeline went quiet when she saw Theodore like that. He looked really annoyed at her.

Theodore didn't stop there. He furrowed his brows which made him look angrier and shouted, "You know what, this whole 'sleeping together' thing was a bad idea. I am sorry that I even suggested it. When I was alone, at least I could focus on my work without you interfering and without having to explain every little detail to you."

He looked around to search for the cloth that he had thrown earlier. He grabbed his cloth and whipped it in the air in frustration, making Adeline flinch. And he whispered aggressively, "You want to be left alone? Fine! I will leave you alone."

And without even giving Adeline a chance to say anything, he vanished from the room.

Adeline felt a sharp pinch in her heart. She had never seen Theodore that angry. In fact, she was a pampered Princess and she had never seen anyone get this angry at her. Yes, some of her brothers and sisters used to be mean to her but it never hurt her this much. The pain in her heart kept on increasing and spreading.

The pain began to shift all over her body. The wounds that she got in the training, which she thought were already healed, began to hurt as though they were fresh wounds.

She grabbed her chest and then crouched down on the floor. The way Theodore had told her that he would leave her alone made her fear that he would not appear in front of her for another decade or so.

"What have I done? He left me for good, didn't he?" Adeline began to sob uncontrollably. The very thought of not seeing him again made her hurt to her soul.

The pain that she was feeling kept on escalating. She felt as though she was being choked by some invisible hands. She tried taking in deeper breaths but nothing seemed to work. She felt like her chest would crack and her heart would pop out.

She felt as though she was on fire.

She abruptly got up from the floor and then looked around for some water. She drank some water and her heart somewhat cooled down. But not enough to make her at ease. She was still burning in pain.

So she dashed to her bathhouse. The bathtub was full of herbal water from her previous bath in the evening. She quickly took off her training uniform and then threw them on the floor. And she jumped inside the bathtub.

The water was really cold which send chills to her bones. But it felt soothing nonetheless. Her mind was focused on the cold rather than on what Theodore had said to her a while ago.

And because it was soothing, Adeline decided to submerge herself completely in the bathtub.

And she did just that. She took a deep breath and pushed herself under the water. The brain-freezing water was doing a good job of soothing Adeline's heart. After a few minutes, her heart became so calm that Theodore, who was feeling excruciating pain just a while ago, was scared that Adeline might have done something to herself.

He was already back in his own room. He was feeling that pain and he knew that Adeline was deeply hurt because of his words. But he was too angry to face Adeline just yet. He didn't want to end up hurting her even more, so he was restlessly pacing back and forth, trying to restrain himself from teleporting back to Adeline.

But when his excruciating pain, or her pain to be precise, simmered down in an instant he was afraid that something bad might have happened to his woman.

And in the next moment, Theodore teleported back to Adeline's room. He was even more scared when he didn't see Adeline anywhere in her room. He looked down the window but he saw nothing. And he frantically began to look around in other rooms of her quarter.

He was about to pass through the bathhouse but he noticed Adeline's uniform on the floor. He remembered that she was wearing them just a while ago. So he bolted inside the bathhouse.

And to his horror, he saw that Adeline was drowning in the bathtub. "Adeline!"