On My Way: The Demon King Made Me His

Chapter 41: Family

Huo put Aqua in his bed first thing he reached the castle. He wasn't sure why she looked tired and pale with her body burning like fire.

"What happened to you?" he asked her. "Are the crystals acting up?"

"Probably because I have been over working," she lied. She didn't want him to tell the news yet and worry him amidst of the troubles around them. She wanted to surprise him when he was feeling good and when they were safe.

"Are you sure?" he asked her.

"Yes, you don't worry," she said hugging him. Huo helped her change her ceremony robes and put on fresh clothes he arranged for her.

Aqua tied up her hair and the rested well as Huo laid down next to her for sometime. He laid there watching her, moving the hair away from her face. He wiped the sweat on her forehead with his sleeves. He gave a peck on her lips. She just laid there, resting her head on his arms, smiling, looking at him, she couldn't just take her eyes off him. She was so in love that her heart pounded loud and felt the butterflies consuming her all over her body. She wanted to freeze the time.

"Thank you, even though we have stirred problems, " she said. "I feel good right now," he kissed her forehead as she said it, and she put her arms around him, moving closer, resting her head on his chest. He wished the moment lasted long for them, lying in each others arms, safe and sound, to feel at ease. "I hope pa, Milan, Aiden and ma are safe," he could sense the tension in her voice

"They will be here any moment," he assured her. And within couple of hours later he heard a knock on the door. "Come in," he commanded. He sat straight in the bed waiting for the guard to enter the room. Aqua was asleep.

"Your highness, Everybody is here, they have come back and resting right now, please go to the banquet hall, there is news from them," he said and took his leave.

Aqua got out of her bed and followed Huo the moment she heard them though Huo'er tired to stop her. She ran and hugged her mother and father the moment she saw them. Yuri walked over and bowed to everyone. Milan asked her through actions if Huo'er had known about his child and Yuri shook her head.

Aqua spend some time with her family telling then what happened in the chamber when Emperor Tai visited and General acted up and how Huo showed then. Then she explained them about her duel with Aaron and what he did. Her mother started crying and expressed how she regret bringing up her daughter for a lost cause for a man like Tai. She felt too bad for Huo and finally accepted Aqua's relationship with him. Huo in the meanwhile got angry for Aaron's action and stood there controlling himself.

"No matter what, stand with him," she advised her daughter. Aiden helped her settle down in bed and asked Aqua to take rest. He offered her help but she rejected him and walked out of the room. Her father was busy in discussion with Dritan.

Aqua settled in bed next to her sister and asked if she was okay. "Dritan is a great king, he being the Emporer would have been perfect if was not in hell, but what to do, he has demon blood in his veins. And our father, he deserves that position, a man who know what is right and what is wrong, he knows what is loyalty and when he should drop it," Milan talked proudly about her father.

"What a man, he also taught each and every guard, maid and servant in our realm to read and write, Yuri knew about things in one touch that even we didn't and failed to understand, " Aqua sighed and laughed.

"You're right, I felt embarrassed in front of her, really," Milan confessed. "I was surprised and feeling frustrated at the same time, a princess and I didn't know, a crown princess, soon to be demon queen, and you are carrying it and you didn't know," she mocked her sister. "What a shame!"

"Shut up and sleep, we don't know the next time we would get to sleep peacefully. " Aqua told her sister and shut her eyes to fall asleep. Milan put out the candles and kept the swords close to her as she decided to sleep. But they were not at peace. They were not telling each other their worries, but they pretended to be fine and out each other at ease. Milan grew more tensed thinking about Aqua's unplanned pregnancy and how it is going to backfire when the world knows about it.

The dangers and Hope's mixed up together. None in the palace at that night knew what to do, except to prepare for the battle. King Aenon had brought all his army in disguise to hell and put the water realm in protection charms. He didn't want the battle to step into the water realm since no kings have ever let any bloodshed inside the kingdom. He also wanted to make sure of it and moved away, trying to protect his citizens.

Life was going the opposite direction of what the gods wanted. He wanted a peaceful atmosphere during his time but with so much wrong doings and forced to choose sides, caught up between principles and loyalty, Aenon had chosen his principles, follow them and remain as the righteous man until the end than falsely accuse anyone and present his fake loyalty to the celestial throne who didn't deserve it in the first place.

The grand prince Aiden was no different. But his only top priority was Aqua. Something kept bothering him, seeing her looking exhausted. He was trying to calculate everything at his own will though he lacked the same kno Aqua and Milan did that Yuri had.