The dark throne

Chapter 9

Third person POV-

The kiss was soft and light, and it only lasted for a second.

...Meliodas immediately regretted it.
Whatever that had come over him was gone, replaced by terror.

He should've done that.
Because now it would be ten times harder to hold himself back.

"I-I...wha-?" Elizabeth stuttered, shocked and flustered from the demon kings sudden act.

"I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me..." he said turning his head away from her.

He couldn't look her in the eyes.

"N-No it's...okay" she says, casing Meliodas's head to turn to look at her again.
His face easily displayed just how shocked he was to hear that answer.
To be honest, Elizabeth was a bit shocked about it as well, but nonetheless it was the truth.

"No it's not...it's not okay" Meliodas pushed.
He had really crossed the line this time.

They both became quiet, but unlike before, it was a very awkward, and made both of them squirm in their seats on the bench.

While Meliodas felt like the biggest scum of the earth, Elizabeth couldn't figure out how to feel.

Just as she had said, it was okay...but wasn't that wrong?
For her to feel that way?
For her heart to have beaten so fast. She knew it was supposed to be wrong.
But it just felt so right...

"I should go" Meliodas then said, stood up, and in a matter of moments he had disappeared into the crowd of people attending the festival.

Elizabeth didn't get angry when he left, she could only imagine she embarrassed, and self loathing Meliodas felt for having kissed her so suddenly.
She didn't really make the situation better either...to him it might've seemed like she was lying through her teeth when she said that it was okay.

After a few moments Elizabeth stood up as well and started walking back towards the castle.
She needed to do some serious thinking.

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Meliodas needed to vent, so he went to the stables, asked Alioni if he could borrow a horse for a few hours, which he agreed to.
In fact he said he could take Sombra, which Meliodas gladly game a thumbs up to.

So that's why he was a few kilometers out of Liones as of now.

He was laying on his back, cloud gazing while Sombra was munching on some grass a bit to his left.

"I'm an idiot aren't I?" Meliodas asked no one I particularly.
But Sombra neighed and shook his mane.

'I swear sometimes it feels as if animals can understand our language' Meliodas thought as he glanced at the black horse.

"....how could I do that?" He then whispered and closed closed eyes.
Of course he knew why he did what he did.
Because he loved her....He loved her more than was probably healthy, and after being separated for 300 years He let my emotions get the best of him.

Slowly he pressed a finger to his lips.

He couldn't deny just how right it had felt to kiss her like that again.
Nor could he deny the fact that he wanted more...