She Belongs To The Devil

Chapter 582: In a Pinch

"That is final. You're not going anywhere!" Lilith shouted at Damien in a stern voice and turned her gaze at Theodore and Lucifer.

Both Theodore and Lucifer had inwardly decided that they were not going to argue with Lilith. It was not their place to be involved anymore.

And Lilith thanked them so that she could dismiss them and start putting up the barrier around their village.

"Theodore, I cannot express how grateful I am. You saved my son yet again. I will forever be indebted to you."

"I did what I could," Theodore replied and glanced at Damien.

He was contemplating if breaking the promise that he had made to Damien would be counted as a sin or not. Not that he cared about sin anyway but he wondered how Damien would take it.

And sure enough, Damien's lips were downturned and he was giving the look of betrayal to Theodore.

Lilith, on the other hand, was already thinking of casting a stronger spell on some jewelry and making Damien wear it. She wanted to stop Damien from leaving the Hell realm again.

Damien looked at his mother and back at Theodore. He pointed his finger towards Theodore and asked again, "Mother, I want to…"

Before Damien could complete his sentence, Lilith interrupted him and thanked Lucifer, "Your Majesty, thank you for mobilizing everyone in the search for my son. You reunited him with me as you had promised."

She gave a genuine bow this time and added, "And please send my gratitude to everyone involved."

"Okay, I think we should take our leave then," Lucifer glanced at Theodore after getting the hint from Lilith that they were not welcome in her mansion anymore.

He was happy that everything had been sorted out. All that was left to do was inform everyone that Damien had been found.

As Theodore and Lucifer were preparing to leave, Damien gave a look of desperation to Theodore and shouted, "Prince Theodore, you made a promise to me. You cannot leave me without fulfilling your promise."

And he even threatened Theodore, "Or else I will tell Ariel that you are a liar."

Lilith glared at Theodore and asked, "What kind of promise?"

"Umm…" Theodore cleared his throat and said in a cautious voice, "I... said that I would take him back with me."

"What?" Lilith tightened her hold on her son and asked Theodore in a little harsh tone, "You want to take Damien back to Earth? Why?"

"Yes, why would you want to take him back?" Lucifer also glared at Theodore and demanded an answer.

Theodore hated being in the middle of the mother and son's argument. Both were single-minded and stubborn and he was the one who was in the pinch here. And Lucifer taking Lilith's side was not helping his case.

Still, he took the boy's side and said, "Damien said that he wants to meet Ariel. And one or two days on Earth will broaden his mind. He will get to experience a whole new realm. He will–"

"No!" Lilith exclaimed and said, "I am not sending my son to that realm. What if something happens to him while I am not by his side? And besides, all he wants to do is meet Ariel, right? You are very much welcome to bring her here."

Theodore took a deep breath in and spoke in a low voice, "I would have brought her here… she has been pestering me saying that she wants to meet Damien. But…"

Damien's face lit up upon hearing that Ariel was also equally eager to meet him.

"But a lot of things are happening to her these days." Theodore clenched his jaw and paused for a second.

Lucifer instantly asked in a worried voice, "What happened to her? Is it something bad? Is that why you two haven't come down here for weeks now?"

Theodore rubbed his forehead and gave him a gist of what happened without revealing the details about Ariel's powers.

And after explaining why he wasn't taking Ariel out of the Palace boundaries, he said to Lilith, "So yeah, you get why I can't bring her here."

Damien gave a puppy-eyed look to Lilith, non-verbally asking her to let him go with Theodore.

Theodore then tried to ease Lilith's heart. "You are worried about your son's safety, right? He will be safe there with me. The dwellers of Heaven won't be able to do any harm in Wyverndale and definitely not inside the Palace."

"Yes, I got that but still…"

To fully assure her, Theodore made a promise to Lilith as well. "And I give you my word that I won't leave Damien's side while he is on Earth. Afterward, I will safely bring him back here. How does that sound?"

Lilith heaved a sigh and asked Damien one last time, "Do you really want to go?"

"Yes," Damien said while giving a pleading look to his mother.

And Lilith finally agreed to send him with Theodore but with a condition, "Bring him back here by tomorrow evening. If anything happens to him then I will kill you."

"Sure." Theodore readily agreed.

Lilith then sent her son with a maid so that he could get changed into his own clothes. She also asked the maid to pack some of Damien's essentials.

While waiting for Damien, Lucifer asked his brother, "When you come back here to drop off Damien, don't forget to visit me. I want to talk with you."

Lucifer further wanted to ask his brother why their father was bothering Ariel. He wanted to stay in the loop with what was happening in the Earth and Heaven realm.

Theodore wanted to inform Lilith about the blood incident of Damien.

But just as he was about to do so, Damien came running inside with a backpack.

"Prince Theodore, let's go. Let's go." He stood in front of Theodore and hopped with excitement.

After seeing Damien, Theodore didn't think that dropping the bomb about Damien before leaving for Earth would be a good idea.

He silently thought to himself, "I guess Lilith won't let me take Damien to a place full of humans if she knows that Damien is attracted to human blood. I better do that after we return from our little trip."

So, for now, he left out the part about how Lilith's sweet baby was clinging onto the maid and was ready to tear apart her throat.

"Mother, I will be back tomorrow," Damien was waving his hand at his mother.

Lilith was still a little worried about sending her son to Earth. However, she was also happy to see how her son was brimming with excitement.

She crouched down and hugged Damien. And she instructed him, "Be a good boy while you are there. And whatever you do, don't fly around. You are not allowed to use your wings while you are there. Okay?"

Damien smiled and nodded. "I already know that. Alan told me not to show my wings."

Lilith smiled and asked Theodore, "Theodore, say to Alan that I am very grateful for taking care of my son."

"I will." Theodore held Damien's hand and then said, "Alright. I think we should take a leave now."

Lilith gave a nod and said again, "Damien, don't be naughty and bother Prince Theodore or others."

"Okay, mother," Damien happily replied as he slowly got engulfed by the dark mist, along with Theodore.