Chapter 381 - The Father

Theodore was acting very bizarrely unlike Adeline had ever seen him before.

"You cannot die! Wake up!" Theodore kept on shouting and frantically shaking Rebekah's dead body.

He felt the invisible sword on her stomach and even pulled that out and threw it aside. And he pressed on that stomach wound as well when a gush of blood flowed out after pulling out that sword.

"Theodore…" Adeline tried calling him to bring him back to his senses. But her voice was too feeble and weak.

Several Royal Guards rushed inside. Some of them took Dragomir to get treated, some began gathering the knocked down bodies of the vampires even though they were not sure what to do with them. And some rushed towards Adeline.

"Your Highness!" A guard panicked to see Adeline's chest and neck covered in blood. As she was not moving, he thought that she had already died.

He was greatly relieved when Adeline moved her head to look at him.

A few other guards joined and he asked after heaving a sigh of relief, "Let us take you to the healer."

They had brought a stretcher to carry the Princess. As one side was occupied by the dead body of Rebekah, and Theodore; and the other side by the sofa, the guards were trying to find a way to shift the Princess on the stretcher without hurting her any further.

But Adeline waved off her hand and asked, "No, just help me up."

"But Princess–"

"Please…" she asked in a whisper.

The guards followed her order and helped her up on her feet.

She was still bleeding from the puncture wounds on her neck. But she didn't want to leave Theodore who was now desperately trying to wipe off the blood from his palms.

"No, no, no, no, no…" Theodore was whispering frantically while rubbing his palms.

The guards helped her kneel beside Theodore. As the Princess was being stubborn and was not willing to go to the healer, a guard ran to get one of the healers. Two of the guards kept on standing behind her while a few others were standing close by.

Adeline held Theodore's palms and stopped him from rubbing them anymore. "Theodore! Look at me!"

Theodore was still looking at the dead body of Rebekah, with his downturned lips and crushed senses.

And she forced herself to speak louder, "LOOK AT ME!"

Theodore looked into Adeline's teary eyes. Adeline guessed that he was behaving like that because he had killed someone from Earth. And she tried to console him, "Theodore, you did not kill her. I did. She was already dying from the wounds that my sword gave her."

"But I was the one who stopped her breath!" Theodore whispered very guiltily. "And I shouldn't have done that… I could have just pushed her away from you. Why didn't I do that?"

He pulled his hand away from Adeline's hold and grabbed his hair with his bloody hands. "I made a mistake! I made a great mistake! An irreversible one…"

Adeline furrowed her brows and spoke consolingly, "Theodore, please calm down. I take the responsibility for her death. I was the one who stabbed her twice."

"No, you don't understand…" Theodore began pulling his hair.

It crushed Adeline's heart to see him in that state. Even though she was already too weak to even keep on sitting by his side, her heart did not allow her to leave her man.

"Oh, Theo…" she raised her hand to stop him from pulling his hair. But her hand stopped midways when she heard a thunder out of nowhere.

Everyone looked shocked because there was not a single cloud in the sky.

And then they saw a series of lightning followed closely by thunders.

"Oh, God!" Theodore held his head with both of his hands and began panicking.

The moment Theodore took the God's name, everything around him stopped moving altogether.

Adeline was reaching out her hand and was looking at Theodore. A drop of blood that dripped from her neck was stuck midair. The guards were looking out of the window with surprised expressions on their faces. Even the birds outside were stuck midair. There was absolute silence.

Everyone and everything were frozen in time.

And Theodore knew what to expect.

Soon enough, a blinding light covered the room. The light was so bright that Theodore closed his eyes and on top of that, he covered his eyes with his wrist so that he wouldn't be blinded by that light.

After a few seconds, the light dimmed down a notch or two and Theodore heard a heavenly voice echoing in the room, "Theodore… how I hoped that this day would never come."

Theodore removed his wrist from before his eyes but he bowed before even taking a look at his father. "Father, I offer you my greetings!" he said in a firm but a guilt-ridden voice.

And then only Theodore peeked a glance of his father. He was adorned in an eye-blinding white robe as always. His grey hair and beard still were of the same length that they used to be when Theodore last saw his father.

His serene yet turbulent face was directly glaring into Theodore's soul.

And he spoke in a painfully calm voice, "I could have gone several millennials without seeing you but you… you know how to drag me down to Earth."

Before his father would give some unthinkable punishment to him, Theodore kowtowed to God and pleaded, "Father, I made a mistake. Please forgive me for this time. I will never–"

"Never what?" God screamed so furiously that the Earth also trembled with fury for a few seconds.

Theodore kept on kowtowing to God and didn't even dare to utter another word.

"Look at me!" Theodore instantly lifted his head up to see his father the moment he heard the order.

And his father began to scold him by bringing up everything that Theodore had done before.

"Do you think this is the first time you made such a grave mistake? Do you think I have not overlooked your past mistakes? I have overlooked countless of them, Theodore. And you know it in your heart."

He pointed at Adeline and shouted, "This girl right here, she had the lifespan of three years old. She should have died after you brought her back from your cave. But you had to intervene and give her your powers."

He gave a menacing glare to Theodore and growled, "And you changed everyone's fate just because you saved this soul. You even changed your own fate and your brother's fate just because you saved this child."

"And you didn't stop there, Theodore.. You kept on piling up your mistakes just because I was silent."