She Belongs To The Devil

While on the other hand, the maid was suffocating and was shaking violently in pain. Her whole body was getting paler and paler, her lips were turning blue, and only the whites of her eyes could be seen. After enduring excruciating pain, she finally collapsed on the floor, her life drained out of her body.

When she fell down, the Prince gasped as though he was just rescued from being drowned and sat up on the bed. He looked at his hands carefully, they didn't look like how they used to when he was healthy, but they looked far better than how they looked just a moment ago.

He frantically touched his cheeks and then touched his chest and his legs. He was in a better shape somehow. And he began to laugh in excitement.

Lillian was actually skeptical that this spell would work again or not. She had already prolonged her son's life once and she didn't know if it would be possible to do so again. However, all her worries vanished when she saw her son laughing and healthier than before. She opened her arms and smiled, "My son! Oh, I am so happy."

Edwin flung his arms around his mother and thanked her, "Mother, you treated me... How is this even possible? Tell me I am not dreaming."

But before Lillian could say anything, his eyes fell on the scary-looking corpse that was lying on the floor. He was startled and he jumped back on his bed.

He gave a questioning glance to his mother and asked, "Isn't that the maid from earlier? How... How is she dead?"

Lillian gave a smirk as though she hadn't just murdered someone. And she waved her hand and said in a calm voice, "Don't worry about that lowly maid. I transferred her remaining life force to you. At least now her life will be utilized for better purposes by you."

Edwin raised his brows and looked amused by what his mother just told him. "It is possible to transfer one's life to another? Well, this is new..."

Lillian caressed her son's hair and proudly boasted, "There is no such thing called impossible. You just need to know the right way to achieve it."

She looked at the dead body of that maid and clicked her tongue. And said disapprovingly, "She looked young but I guess she didn't have many years in her. You aren't completely healed yet."

She trailed her fingers over her son's cheek and jaw. She sighed and announced, "You look like you could use one more person's life force. Lucky for you, I have one more maid waiting outside."

Then she got off the bed and ordered her son, "Try lifting this body. If you can then hide it in the bathhouse for some time."

Edwin did as his mother asked. It looked like his strength was also back.

After removing the trace of murder from the room, Lillian went outside and called that another maid as well.

That maid darted her eyes at the door to the Prince's chamber, waiting for her friend to come out. But there was no sign of her.

"I've asked her to clean the bathhouse of the Prince." Lillian pointed her brows to the door and ordered, "Come in."

Even though something didn't seem right, the maid had no other option than to follow the Queen.

The Queen locked the door behind her and after some time, a loud thud was heard.

Lillian came outside and she found her maid, Ida, waiting at the main door of the Prince's quarter. She brought her in and asked, "Did you make the preparations as I asked earlier?"

Ida bowed to the Queen and replied, "Yes, Your Majesty. I have arranged a carriage and I have offered the bribe to the guards at the main gate. Shall I send the men to pick up the trash?"

"Yes. Send them in."

The maid bowed again and went outside while Lillian went inside her son's room.

Inside the room, Prince Edwin was now busy looking at his own reflection in the mirror. He was now back to being his older self, sturdy and healthy as ever.

Lillian smiled at how enthusiastically her son was checking himself out in the mirror. And she was happy that her son was now back to normal. She stood beside her son and said, "Don't go outside for now. People had seen the skinny you and I don't want them to get suspicious when they see you this healthy in half a day. They will know that I used dark magic."

"Sure, mother. I wouldn't put you in a difficult situation." He then hugged his mother and thanked her, "I will never forget how you saved me and my dream. Just wait and see mother, that throne will be mine. And I will give you all the happiness in the world."

Lillian hugged back her beloved son and whispered, "I expect no less from my son."

She patted her son on the back and then pulled away from the hug. The dead body of the second maid was still lying on the floor. She pointed at that body and said, "I have already arranged for these bodies to be picked and disposed of. My maid will come with two men and they will clean everything up. They were your maids so you can tell their family that they stole something from you and ran away from the Palace. And you can appoint new ones in their place."

Edwin gratefully nodded his head. "I understand. Thank you, mother."

Lillian smiled and cupped her son's jaw. And then she placed a kiss on his forehead and said, "Anything for you, my son."

The witch headed towards her own quarter with a sense of victory on her face. And she thought to herself, "Now that I know that the succubus had also been visiting my son, I am going to teach her a lesson today, the last lesson that she will ever learn. I was allowing her to have the King's life, but she was greedy enough to even go for my son!"

She still thought that the succubus had not only been sleeping with the King but also with her son. If only she knew the whole truth...

"Let the night come. I will suck the life out of her and from tomorrow, I'll summon another one." She frowned and thought, "I hope that my body can handle absorbing a few hundred years from that succubus. Or maybe I should be careful, my body might not be suitable to hold that kind of power."

"Let's just wait for the night.. Whatever I do, I will make sure that she will pay for attacking my son."