She Belongs To The Devil

"Whose child is it?"

"It's none of your concern," Lilith said in an irritated whisper.

Her eyes looked lethargic. All the wounds and cuts in her body, and fighting continuously while carrying a five-month-old child in her belly were taking a toll on her.

Without her saying it, Theodore guessed whose child Lilith was carrying.

He didn't know why she would even want that degenerate vampire to sire her child. He didn't even want to think the reason 'why' because his head hurt just by imagining how that degenerate's child would turn out to be.

Still, he couldn't believe that Lilith was about to make him a murderer of an unborn child. So he scolded her, "What were you even thinking coming here to fight when you are carrying a child?"

He snapped his fingers and instantly put a soft mattress below Lilith. He took her hand and checked her pulse while still shouting at her, "And how could you even provoke me into killing you when you know very well that this hellfire will not only kill the body but also the soul!"

Lilith frowned at that sudden change in the attitude of Theodore. She swatted his hand away. She winced and turned her head away from Theodore. And she angrily grumbled, "Stop with this saint act. Stop acting as though you have never killed before."

Theodore grabbed Lilith's wrist again to check her pulse. "I'm not saying I haven't killed before. I have killed hundreds of thousands… killed all kinds of creatures. But I have never killed a child, that also an unborn child. And you were not only going to make me kill him but you were going to have me rob that soul of the chance to reincarnate."

"How can you be so cruel?" Theodore narrowed his eyes because her pulse was very unstable.

He focused his hearing on the heartbeat of the child and… the heartbeat was not sounding good at all. If Lilith wasn't a demoness then she would have had a miscarriage by now. Hell! She would have been dead long ago.

Theodore put his hand inside his pouch of the pills so that Lilith would recover before the child would die.

"Argh! Darn it!" Theodore slammed his fist against his thigh because he had already used all of the pills that he had with him.

He glanced at Lilith who looked as though she had fallen asleep. And he said to her, "Don't go anywhere for a while. I will find some healing pills for you."

"I don't need your sympathy. Just take me back to hell if you're not going to kill me." Lilith clenched her teeth and grasped the cloth that was covering her belly.

Theodore sighed in frustration and shouted at Lilith yet again, "This child is your payment for putting up a fight with me, isn't it? If you didn't want a child in the first place then why go to extreme lengths and make a deal with that bastard out of all the beings in the three worlds?"

"Who said I don't want this child," Lilith shouted all of a sudden. The eye rims of her grey eyes were glistening in the morning sunrays that entered through the dome. "I was even ready to kill you just to have this child."

"But I couldn't even scratch you! A failure like me doesn't deserve to be a mother," she mumbled, feeling very ashamed of herself.

"Yes, you don't deserve to be a mother when you were foolish enough to put that unborn child in harm's way. I could have killed you 27 times, Lilith. That means I gave you that many chances to live, that many chances to flee."

"But no!" Theodore got up on his feet and reverted back to his normal form.

He then fisted on his hips and continued shouting, "Instead of protecting the child with whatever means possible, you were simply going to sacrifice him for your silly pride. How can someone so self-centered as you ever be a mother?"

Lilith's lips curled downward. It finally settled in her mind how big of a fool she was. She felt a stinging pain in her heart and without her consent, her tears rolled down her eyes.

"I didn't want my child to think of me as a coward who ran away from the battlefield to save her skin." Lilith caressed her belly and whimpered.

"And do you think your child will forgive you when if they find out that you were willing to have them killed?"

"I at least had to try my best before giving up or turning up dead." Lilith still tried defending her actions to Theodore. She didn't want to admit to him that she had been a fool.

Theodore couldn't believe that Lilith was being so stubborn even when her child's life was on the line. "How can you be the most powerful demoness in hell and yet be so foolishly stubborn at the same time? I wonder how you survived this long with that attitude of yours."

Theodore scratched his head restlessly. The heartbeat of the child was almost inaudible even to his sharp ears. "Let me ask this again. I'm sure you will heal on your own with some days of rest. But I can't say the same about the child you are carrying."

"Do you want me to save your child or do you want to lose him because of your stupid morale? And when answering, please consider the fact that you might not be able to conceive a child ever again. You know how hard it is for us to have a child."

Lilith wiped her tears and tried to feel the heartbeat of her child. Her eyes teared up again when she could barely hear it.

Lilith then looked at Theodore, contemplating if he would really help her or if he was trying to kill her baby by pretending to help her. He was the Devil Prince after all. Everyone in hell believed not to trust the Devil's words.

"He isn't trying to harvest my aura of revenge later on, is he?" she thought quietly as she tried to see through his worried expression.

And as though Theodore could read her mind, he reassured her, "I know it will be hard for you to trust me again after what I did to you. But give me a chance to prove you wrong. Let me prove it to you that I am not the same celestial that I used to be millenials ago."

Tears rolled down Lilith's eyes again and she finally asked, "Please save my child. I want to show our world to my child."