She Belongs To The Devil

"No! I saw it with my own two eyes! I saw his eyes turning red!" the maid who was attacked by Damien was shouting in one of the rooms.

And a guard was arguing with her saying that Damien was not a vampire. "If that boy was a vampire then why would our Prince Consort protect that boy? If someone hates vampires the most then it is him. Did you forget how that bloody vampire King rallied his armies because he wanted to steal our Queen?"

The maid touched the now bandaged wrist and whimpered, "But… but I swear that he tried to kill me. He jumped at me after licking my blood. If our Prince hadn't arrived here in time then I would be dead!"

The guard heaved a deep sigh. He didn't want to argue any further but he still said, "And that very same Prince told our Prince that that boy was his friend's son. If you are denying to believe me then you are denying to believe them."

And before he left the room, he further said, "If I were you then I would stop yelling that that boy is a vampire. You don't want to get punished for spreading misinformation now, do you?"

The maid pressed her lips into a thin line and turned her head away.

She kept quiet fearing that she would get punished. However, deep down, she was still traumatized by what she saw earlier in the bathroom. And she thought that Prince Theodore was hiding something about the boy.

However, the other guards who had seen Damien in the bathhouse thought that the maid was overthinking the situation.

From what they had witnessed in the bathroom, Damien was clearly disgusted by the blood. He was coughing and spatting the blood. And later Theodore had even made Damien gargle his mouth. They didn't know that Damien had actually spat Theodore's blood, which didn't suit his taste.

"If that boy was a vampire then he would have swallowed that blood, wouldn't he?" one of the guards asked his friend.

And that guard also agreed, "Definitely." And he further speculated, "Maybe that boy bit her because he was scared of her or maybe because she was irritating that boy."

The other guards laughed after hearing that and then set out for a patrol.

Damien had been the talk of that orphanage after what happened in the bathroom.

Alan had alerted everyone in the orphanage that their Prince Consort would be staying there for the night along with that boy.

The guards were busy patrolling the area and making sure that everything was in order. The maids and servants were busy preparing the dinner and preparing the guest room for Theodore. The maids were also making sure that the mansion, as well as the garden, were clean and sparkling.

The children of the orphanage were sitting in the garden along with Alan and Veronica. Veronica was teaching the children to make origami frogs in order to pass the time while waiting for the guests.

Everything was livelier than normal today.

So, one of the curious boys asked Alan, "Teacher, is something happening today? Are we going to celebrate something?"

All the children addressed Alan and Veronica as 'teachers' since the two of them would also look after the children's education.

Alan gave a smile and answered, "Our Kingdom's Prince Consort will be staying with us tonight. And a small boy similar to your age will also be joining us. So we are going to show our hospitality to them."

"Prince Consort? Is he someone important?" that boy asked as he tried to copy the way Veronica was folding the paper in her hand.

Alan chuckled and glanced at his wife. And he asked her, "Veronica, why don't you answer Tom?"

Veronica was someone who didn't talk unless talked to or unless it was absolutely necessary. And Alan would try his best to include her in talks and make her speak.

Veronica completed making the frog and placed it in front of the children.

She then looked at Tom and answered him, "Prince Consort is the second most powerful person of our Kingdom. He is our Queen Adeline's husband."

"The Queen's husband?" the girl child, Cathy, raised her brows in excitement. "We are going to meet the Queen's husband! We are so lucky!"

"Our teacher is also a Prince, Cathy. Of course we are lucky," James, another boy in the orphanage, gave a grateful smile to Alan.

Not just James, but Tom and Cathy were also happy that they crossed paths with their teacher. If it wasn't for their teacher then they would still be sleeping in some stable and eating by stealing or by begging.

"Teacher, look, I also made it," Cathy showed the frog that she had made to Veronica.

"This is lovely," Veronica praised Cathy and then proceeded to take it.

The origami frog indeed looked lovely. Veronica put it down on the sheet of paper lying by her side and then pushed the frog's rear to make it jump.

"Whoa! Did you see that?" Cathy clapped her hands in excitement and asked the boys.

"What?" Both the boys asked simultaneously. They were too busy with their own frogs so they didn't see the paper frog jumping.

"Teacher, show us again," Cathy asked Veronica. And she said to the boys, "Look at the frog very closely."

Cathy leaned down to get a close look at the frog. And the boys also did the same.

Veronica pushed the paper frog and made it jump.

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And as though they had just seen a great feat, the children hooted and clapped.

"Do it again," Tom asked.

"Don't forget the magic word, Tom," Cathy poked Tom with her elbow.

Tom grinned and said, "Please."

The children leaned down again and waited for Veronica.

Alan was also engrossed in watching the kids and his wife. The children would wait for Veronica to make the frog jump and when it would jump, they would cheer happily.

While all of them were huddled together and were lost in their own world, nobody noticed that Theodore and Damien had appeared right behind them.

Damien got curious and he also leaned down to see what all of them were looking at with such a great interest.

And he asked in a whisper so as not to disturb whatever they were gazing at, "Is something interesting going on?"

"Ahhhhhhhhh…"

All the children shouted at the top of their lungs and jumped upon hearing that ghost-like whisper behind them.

And Damien also got scared to hear those three children screaming like they had seen some ancient demon. He tightly grabbed onto Theodore's fingers while widely staring at the children and shuddering.

Alan and Theodore, on the other hand, were laughing to their heart's content seeing that scared expression on all the children's faces.

Veronica got up on her feet and then welcomed Theodore with a bow, "Welcome to our home, Your Royal Highness."

"Thank you, Veronica," Theodore gave a nod and looked around.

All of the guards, maids, and servants who were in view were also bowing to their Prince Consort. Theodore raised his palm and gestured for all of them to be at ease.

The three children, however, were very clueless. They were staring at Theodore with wide eyes and their jaw wide open. Never had they seen such a man who was so beautiful.

"Our Queen married an angel?" Tom silently thought to himself.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

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