Chapter 175 - Forever?

Theodore and Adeline were lying down on Theodore's bed while facing each other. Theodore was wrapping Adeline in his warm embrace and they both were trying to get some sleep. But both of them were finding it difficult to fall into slumber.

Adeline opened her eyes and trailed her glances on his closed eyelids and his beautiful eyelashes. And she whispered, "Theo, are you still awake?"

Theodore smiled without opening his eyes. "Yes, I am."

Adeline brought her hand up on his head and then began playing with his soft and long hair. Then she trod carefully, "I wanted to ask you something. But if you don't feel comfortable then you don't need to answer."

Theodore fluttered his eyes open and asked, "What is it? You can ask me anything."

Adeline darted her eyes around for a while, still contemplating whether or not to ask it. Theodore raised his brows prompting her to ask whatever was in her mind and she proceeded, "Why do you have those rooms when you feel so uncomfortable by it?"

A hint of sadness ran through Theodore's face. And he replied, "I had prepared them a long time ago because I was very naive at that time. I thought that as I was not allowed to step into Heaven, my mother and my brothers and sisters would want to visit me here sometimes. And I had prepared those rooms for them so that they wouldn't be uncomfortable when they visited me. But…"

Theodore heaved a sigh and then gave a mirthless smile. His smile said it all that he was never visited by his family after he was banished.

Adeline also felt sad seeing his vulnerable side, seeing the scars that were in his heart. "Why didn't you turn them back into normal rooms then? Isn't it better to do so rather than keeping them as a constant reminder of your pain?"

"It's not that I didn't consider doing that." Theodore curved a corner of his lips downward and was lost in his thoughts for some time.

Then he continued explaining, "I contemplated several times about destroying those rooms. But I had expended too much of my power to create that illusion and destroying that would take an equal amount of power. I thought that I would destroy them once I gathered enough power but I could never bring myself to destroy those rooms that look very much like my previous home."

Adeline caressed his jaw with her thumb and asked, "You said that it has already been thousands of years since you were cast out of your home. Won't your father forgive you now? Have you tried asking for his forgiveness?"

Theodore grimly chuckled at that question of Adeline. "You don't know my father, Adeline. He is one proud Supreme Being who never goes back on his words. My pleas won't even reach his ears."

"Don't you miss them? Your family back there in Heaven? Don't you want to return back to your home?" Adeline couldn't even think of staying apart from her father, brother, and her maids. And she wondered how he managed to live separately from his family, that also without seeing them for thousands and thousands of years.

Theodore took a deep breath and his eyes dilated. And he replied in such a melancholic voice that it made Adeline's heart to ache for him, "I would love to say that I don't miss those heartless ones but I would be lying if I said I don't miss them. I especially miss my mother once in a while. I had hoped that at least she would remember her son and would bless me with her visit, but I was very wrong to think that."

Theodore felt a pinch in his heart and he instantly knew that it was Adeline's pain. His heart had already become numb towards his mother's and his other family member's heartlessness. So he tried to lighten up her mood and said, "But hey, at least one of my brothers was cast out along with me, so I get to meet him whenever I want to. To be more precise, I get to challenge him to a fight whenever I want to."

Adeline gave a pain-laced smile and whispered, "And you also have me as your family, your fiancé."

Theodore had claimed himself to be the fiancé of Adeline without even asking her once. But now that she was calling herself his fiancé, he liked it very much. "Yes, of course. I have my whole universe with me." He gave her a wide grin and locked his lips with hers in a passionate kiss.

He could never get enough of Adeline's sweet taste. He kept on kissing her like never before. And while doing so, he slid his warm hand over her curves and then rested it on her back. He then wrapped his leg on her hips and pulled her closer to him.

After both of them were breathless and both of their lips were swollen and dry, they finally let go of their entangled lips.

Adeline gave her cutest smile and pecked Theodore on his lips before wriggling down a little and tucking her head on his warm chest. Adeline's smile widened up to her ears when she heard that hammering of his heart.

Theodore planted a kiss on her silver head and stroked her back. They were quiet for some time and Theodore spoke in his husky voice, "To be honest, you far out-weight all of my family members. If love was measurable then your love on one side of the scale would still be heavier than all of my family member's love combined on the other side of the scale."

Adeline didn't know whether to be flattered that he valued her love that much or to be sad that he never got enough love from his family members.

Theodore's hot breath hit Adeline's head when he further continued, "My relationship with my family members was rather a formal one, and it rarely felt like family anyway. So neither do I have any wish to ask for my father's forgiveness nor do I have a wish to return back to heaven. I am happy where I am."

He paused for a while and whispered with a sad hint, "I just wish that I could embrace you forever in my arms."

Adeline felt a sharp pain in her heart when he said that. She had deliberately avoided thinking about it. She didn't want to think that she would soon grow up, grow old, and then die while Theodore would stay the way he was forever. He had lived for tens of thousands of years and he would continue to do so. And Adeline, she wouldn't even be a dot in his eternal existence.

And she couldn't help but think, "Will he keep on remembering me even after I die? Will he keep on loving me forever as he promised?"