The Demon King's Paladin

Chapter 30. Siblings

After her acceptance of our deal, with my consent, Sarah asked to lay on me and to pet her head. I accepted. Her long white hair shivered and brushed against me as I pet her head. After around an hour we realized I skipped meditating today. Well, I can't be upset about it. I feel like there's another pair of eyes on me when meditating, but I can't get a read where they are, so I assume it's going to take a good amount of meditation to finally find the eyes. Besides I still have a few things to test with Paula but seeing as we haven't moved out of the castle yet. I can't test my other ideas.

Regardless of my ideas about summoning, it was hard to think them in the first place. Since I would look down and see Sarah shaking and breathing in Rhythm to my hand petting her head. While I watched her, Sarah had finally been satiated with my petting, she lifted her head while still laying on my chest. Our eyes met, the purple of her eyes had changed from a deep dark purple to a lighter shade, and she began to speak to me.

" Thank you for this John."

" The petting? Honestly anytime you want me to, I enjoyed doing it."

" No, not the petting. But it's good to know I can have this again..."

Sarah's eyes started to turn a little darker again. But then like flipping a switch, her eyes went back to normal. She proceeded to talk about what she originally wanted to.

" I meant for accepting your role as my fiancé. I understand I haven't been acting exactly normal around you for a while."

To her words I couldn't help but reply.

" Do you mean how you have to constantly hold back from touching or doing something more extreme to me? I've noticed. If it just extends to touching like this, I don't mind. I like when you touch me. For the heavier stuff however, I want to wait till we both have proper feelings for each other."

Sarah looked at me like a kid who got caught with ice cream before dinner. her face grew red, but she found the strength to speak.

" Those terms, are acceptable to me."

Saying that, she put her hand on top of my free one and proceeded to grip it tight.

" I've been waiting to hold your hand like this for a long time."

" I've seen you eyeing it from time to time during lunch. Do you want to hold my hand during our lunch dates?

She looked away from me and grimaced. Seems she thought she was hard to read. At first yeah, she was. But after fighting with her and speaking to her for so long for a whole month. Even someone as dense as me can pick a few things up. As she hesitated to speak, I pet her head and spoke instead.

" It's fine to grab my hand during lunch. I won't reject you. Having said all of this though. And no matter how much I enjoy being in this kind of situation with you... Unfortunately, it's time to go, we have to spar Warrick."

When I took my hand away from her head, Sarah looked like the world was going to end. I couldn't help but tease her.

" Relax if we do great against your dad today, I'll even interlock our fingers at lunch tomorrow."

Safe to say, that promise gave Sarah a good dose of motivation. Unfortunately, we couldn't truly get Warrick again that day. It didn't matter to me much. Meanwhile, Sarah looked like she would waste away before going to bed that day. The look in her eyes when I interlocked our fingers anyway the next day had to be seen to be believed. I can definitely say I love her smile. With that, the rest of the day wasn't too notable. I meditated, I felt closer to those eyes but still far away. After lasting longer against him, Warrick thrashed both me and Sarah separately then together. I went to bed and the day of reckoning arrived. I was to meet Prince Thomas and Princess Cynthia.