She Belongs To The Devil

Chapter 587: Fuzzy Feeling

"Damien!" Ariel shouted at the top of her lungs as soon as she saw the sleeping boy and sprinted towards the bed.

When Damien opened his eyes, Ariel was already on the bed and staring down at his beautiful grey eyes. "Ariel!" he gave a wide smile to her.

Ariel also gave a smile to him and booped his nose just to check if he was an illusion created by her father or if he was real.

And once she confirmed that he was real, she cupped his cheeks with her tiny hand and said, "I missed you so much, Damien."

"So did I," Damien also held out his hands and pinched Ariel's baby cheeks.

Adeline was watching the two of them with a wide smile on her face. Unlike how Ariel would normally greet her cousins, either by hitting them with pillows or jump-scaring them, Ariel was greeting Damien very sweetly.

"Aww… don't they look so cute?" Adeline asked in a whisper and turned her gaze towards her husband.

Theodore, on the other hand, looked like he was in some sort of trance state.

"Theo?" Adeline called her husband again.

It took a while for Theodore to come back to his senses. And when he was back, he stared at Damien with a little frown on his forehead.

"What is it?" Adeline pried again.

Theodore pretended to smile and shook his head.

And he diverted his wife's attention from him by asking a question to their daughter, "Ariel, aren't you going to introduce your friend to your mother?"

"Yes, dada," Ariel stood up on the bed with her hands behind her back and her back straight.

"All rise." She then gestured for Damien to get up as well.

When Damien stood up, he finally noticed that there was one more person in the room. And the moment he laid his gaze on Adeline, he couldn't tear his gaze away from her. "If Ariel is beautiful then she is beautifuller," he thought.

Adeline gave a warm smile to Damien, making him even more spellbound.

And Ariel gave the most elaborate introduction of her mother by imitating the guards who would often introduce Adeline at the formal ceremonies, "You are in the pessence of Her Majesty the great Queen of Wyverndale. Bow!"

And as if he was hypnotized, Damien bowed to the great Queen of Wyverndale.

Adeline merrily laughed at how the situation unfolded in front of her. And she asked while still laughing, "Ary, who taught you to say that?"

"Ary learned herself," Ariel grinned at her mother.

Adeline smiled and walked closer to the bed. And then she lightly caressed Damien's reddish-brown hair and said, "It is nice to finally meet you, Damien. Ariel talks very highly of you."

Damien almost melted at the touch of Adeline. She looked as confident and as powerful as his mother. And he liked her in an instant.

He smiled ear to ear and then said in a hypnotized voice, "It is nice to meet you too, Miss Queen."

Adeline laughed at how Damien greeted her but didn't say anything. She liked the ring to 'Miss Queen' so she let him be.

Adeline then talked with Damien for a while. She asked a few things about him and a few about Lilith.

And after the short conversation, she concluded that she liked the boy.

Before meeting him, though Theodore had said that he didn't resemble Reginald too much, Adeline was a little skeptical. She was a little worried that she would dislike the boy if he reminded her of that nasty vampire.

However, after seeing him and after chatting with him for a while, she could say that Damien didn't remind her of Reginald at all.

He was a sweet and curious boy, who knew his ways with the words. For a five-year-old, he would even sound mature at times.

After Adeline had her fill of the chat with Lilith's baby, she turned behind to look at Theodore.

However, he wasn't in the room.

She didn't think much of it and asked Damien, "Do you want to have some breakfast with us?"

After tasting the human food at Alan's home, there was no way Damien was going to say no to some tasty and aromatic food.

"Yes, please," he answered eagerly.

"Okay, let's go to the dining hall. You can have breakfast with Ariel and me." Adeline glanced at Damien and asked, "I hope you don't mind if I carry you."

Damien shook his head.

And Adeline picked both Damien and Ariel in either of her arms.

After teleporting to the dining hall, Adeline made them both settle down on the chairs.

"Wait here, okay? I will be right back," Adeline asked them and disappeared from there.

Damien looked around the dining hall with great interest. He liked how some decorative pieces of art were hung on the wall.

His gaze then fell on Ariel who was sitting by his side.

Ariel was resting her hand on the table and her cheek on her fist. She was facing Damien and stupidly smiling at him.

"W-Why are you looking at me like that?" Damien felt something warm and fuzzy inside his chest as he gazed at his friend.

Nobody had ever looked at him like that. Except for his mother. But he didn't feel this thing in his heart when his mother would stare at him like that.

Ariel shrugged her shoulders and kept on smiling at him. "Nothing. I feel happy when I'm with you," she replied in her sweet voice.

Damien's heart skipped a beat.

Damien inhaled sharply and then turned away. And he started to blabber awkwardly, "Ah… ahahahaha… w-well you should. I umm… I had to fight with my mother to come here."

Ariel giggled and then casually asked him, "You like me that much?"

Damien's heart skipped a beat again. And his fuzzy mind thought that Ariel was asking him if he liked her as a pet.

So he turned around and shouted, "No! You are my friend, not my pet."

Ariel blinked twice and nonchalantly replied, "You can like anyone. Not just pets. I like all my cousins. And I also like you."

"You l-l-like me?" Damien grabbed the cloth on his chest and turned the other way.

Suddenly, he felt Ariel's hands around his neck and her head on his back. His eyes widened and he stopped breathing for some reason unknown to him. And his face, his pale face had a rosy hint to it.

"Yes, I like you. Thank you for coming," Ariel mumbled as she hugged Damien from behind.

Damien gulped and stuttered, "Wel-Welcome."

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Elsewhere, Adeline had asked the maids to prepare the breakfast for four and had gone to find Theodore.

She found him in their room, standing by the window and looking out as though some great tragedy had happened to him.

Adeline went and stood by his side and asked in a worried voice, "Did you see something earlier? Is that what's bothering you?"

Theodore took a deep breath in and turned to give a serious look to Adeline. "I saw that… I…" he sighed and tried again, "I saw Damien ki-" he cleared his throat and blurted out, "I saw Damien kissing our daughter!"

Adeline curled her brows and lightly shrugged. "Well, they are just kids. They fool around. You don't have to look like someone died…"

"Not now!" Theodore stomped his foot on the floor and emphasized, "In the future! He was…"

He recalled his vision and shuddered, "Arghhhhh!" He grabbed his hair with both of his hands as if he had gone mad.

"Oh! Umm…" Adeline didn't know how to take that vision either. "I guess it's good if they get... together… maybe…"

"What if she starts sneaking to Hell behind our back?" Theodore looked at Adeline with glowing red eyes.

"Come on!" Adeline furrowed her brows at Theodore for making her worried unnecessarily.

She pushed aside her thoughts that were running haywire and said, "I'll just pretend that I didn't hear anything that you said."

Theodore looked at her and pointed his finger at Adeline's face. "See… you also look like someone just died."

Adeline gave a corner-eyed look to Theodore and said in a monotone, "No, I don't!" Explore hidden tales at mvl

She then turned around and asked him, "Let's go to the dining hall. Let's have breakfast and… and… play with the kids for the whole day."

Theodore sighed and looked up at the blue sky.

And he muttered in an irritated voice, "I think He gave this broken vision to me on purpose. Why does it show things to me when I am not even trying to look into the future? This cursed blessing!"

Adeline grabbed Theodore's sleeve and said in a stern voice, "Alright! Come on, now! You'll go mad if you dwell on that vision too much. Just forget it."