She Belongs To The Devil

As Dragomir had suggested, Adeline headed back to her quarter to groom herself. As she walked, she was blushing and was thinking, "Is this the reason why Theo wanted me to get some sleep? So that I wouldn't doze off when he would come to ask my hand in the marriage?"

Adeline smiled as she tried to picture Theodore and Azriel coming together to the Palace. "I wonder how they will come… Will they just teleport like they usually do or will they actually pose as some Prince of a foreign land and arrive in a carriage?"

"What if they come here riding the dragons?" Adeline giggled at the thought of Theodore and Azriel doing so. "That would be too stupid. They would scare the soul out of everyone in Wyverndale."

The Princess was already excited to meet the suitor that she had chosen herself.

She reached her quarter just when Hawisa and Osanna were about to take the breakfast to her workroom.

"Princess? You are here for breakfast?" Osanna asked in a surprised tone. Once Adeline went to her workroom, it was not normal to see Adeline return back before it was dark, unless she had to be somewhere and she wanted to change into a suitable dress.

Adeline pressed her cold palm on her flustered cheeks and smiled, "Um… yes, that too. And…" she cleared her throat and gestured them to follow her to her chamber, "and I had something else as well."

Hawisa and Osanna glanced at each other and shrugged. And then both of them followed the Princess with the trays of food.

The personal maids set the breakfast on the table. And while they were doing so, they couldn't help but notice that Adeline was aimlessly walking around the room. And they also didn't miss the color of her cheeks which resembled the fresh cherry blossoms. Her whole face was beaming.

So Hawisa couldn't resist but ask, "Adeline, did something happen? Something good?"

Adeline nervously smiled at her maids. She didn't know how to tell them that she was going to have some special guests. She was sure that they would tease her until they would make her whole body turn red out of embarrassment.

"Er… the thing is… umm…" Adeline sighed and then walked towards the table, "I think I will eat my breakfast first. Else it will get cold."

To hide her burning face, she kept on looking down. Osanna narrowed her eyes and followed the Princess. She stood in front of the table and folded her arms. Adeline pretended as though Osanna was invisible and opened her mouth wide to stuff a huge piece of bread.

But Osanna dramatically cleared her throat and inquired, "Something is surely up. You are acting as if you don't want us to find out something. But at the same time, you also want to share it with us. So, why don't you tell us what it is while you eat your breakfast?"

Adeline gave an innocent glance to Osanna and kept on chewing the mouthful of food. Hawisa also joined Osanna in giving the questioning glare to the Princess. Adeline had to forcefully swallow her food in order to escape the glare from her maids.

After taking some time to prepare herself, Adeline finally revealed, but not before giving them a warning, "Okay, I will tell you what it is only if both of you swear not to tease me."

"Okay, we swear it. Tell us already," Osanna gave a wide grin to the Princess.

And Adeline blurted out really fast, "A suitor is coming to the Palace to ask my hand in marriage."

Both Osanna and Hawisa turned into statues. Osanna's jaw was about to touch the floor while Hawisa's eyes were about to pop out.

As the two of them were too stunned to even speak, Adeline filled the silence, "And I want the two of you to prepare me for the same. That is the reason why I came back."

Finally, both Hawisa and Osanna screamed and jumped happily. They hugged each other, they hugged the Princess, and finally got the breath to ask, "So who is the suitor? Is he a Prince? Or is he a King?"

Adeline went blank when they asked that question because Theodore was saying that he would come up with some alias. But he hadn't yet briefed her on what his alias would be.

Osanna gently nudged the Princess with her shoulder and teasingly asked, "Why aren't you telling who the lucky man is? Don't be so shy, Adeline."

Adeline then wrinkled her nose and replied, "I also don't know for sure. The King said that someone was coming to see me and he asked me to get ready. Umm… I will give you both the details after I personally meet him."

"Oh!" Hawisa nodded her head and pulled Osanna aside. "Our Princess hasn't even seen that man so hold your horses, Osanna. Let the Princess eat in peace so that we can prepare her in time."

Adeline hurriedly stuffed some food in her mouth while Osanna grinned apologetically, "I am so sorry for getting extremely excited. This is the first time a suitor is coming to see our Princess so…"

"We will start the preparation from our side right away," Hawisa then dragged Osanna and asked her, "Choose a gorgeous gown for the Princess. Till then I will prepare the items for her beauty treatment."

"Sure," Osanna enthusiastically ran towards the Princess' wardrobe while Hawisa stepped out of the room.

After Adeline finished eating, Hawisa and Osanna worked on the Princess for a couple of hours.

They were still doing some final touch-ups on the Princess when a messenger from the King's Court came knocking on the door, "Your Highness, His Majesty has asked for your presence in the Court immediately."

"I will be right there," Adeline replied as she glanced at her reflection in the mirror.

As Adeline was blushing a little too much, Osanna had picked up a gown of the same color as her cheeks. Half of her hair was pinned up behind her head while the rest were turned into tight curls. The Princess looked like the cherry blossom that bloomed during the spring.

"You look lovely, Princess," Osanna gazed at the Princess and praised her.

Hawisa, on the other hand, gave a piece of advice instead, "Princess, whoever came to see you today will instantly agree to get married to you the moment he will lay his eyes on you. But that doesn't mean that you will have to agree as well. Make sure to know more about him first."

Adeline felt a little guilty for not telling the maids that she had known Theodore for almost her whole life. But she gave a grateful smile to them for the heads up.

She carefully walked out of her quarter and made her way towards the Court.

"What? Where did they get all these people from?" Adeline knitted her brows in tune when she saw that there were two squads of guards and two carriages waiting in front of the Court.

She was impressed to see that the guards were even wearing uniforms as if they really were from some Kingdom. "Is there anything that Theodore can't do? When did he even get the time to prepare everything? He must have been secretly preparing for this day."

Adeline's heart fluttered when she saw the diligence of Theodore.. She entered the King's Court with a warm heart and a wide smile on her face.