10 Closer

Adon yawned as he sat up, It wasn't the same to not sleep in his own bed, he had thought about just going up and sleeping with Hephaistos, but quickly threw that thought away

"D-Did you have a good rest?" Hephaistos says behind me as I start to smell food

Turning he sees her standing there with a plate of bread cheese and a steaming pile of venison

"I'm... good, How about you?" he says walking forward and testing how close he could get before she gets uncomfortable

"It's ok..." She said quietly, She decided to trust him, at least a little, they were, after all, Married

So she decided to try and treat him better, and let him get closer, this would also help her and her fear of men

Hearing her he gives her a reassuring smile and gets closer taking some bread off the tray "It's good...thank you" Adon says savoring the taste

*Hephaistos +2 favorability*

Hearing the system my smile grows wider, But I decided not to push it and take a little more before putting more distance between us

Hephaistos sighs 'That wasn't so bad...' She thinks to herself while blushing

"Any plans today?" He asks sitting back down on the larger than normal sofa... it seemed Hestia had different thoughts when making this home

"Well, I was thinking of asking Hestia to add a forge to the house" She smiled brightly when. talking about it but gained a shocked look and quickly looked toward him "T-that is if it's ok! I don't want to intrude"

Adon sighs and walks forward making her step back, before she can flee however he grabs her hand and pulls her close "This is your house too... do whatever you want, you don't need to be uncomfortable, nor do you need to try and seek my approval live your life, I won't stop you

He kisses the top of her head as her eyes widen at his words, After he pulls away he leaves the house, and a flustered Hephaistos still standing there with a red face

'What was that?' She thought to herself before slapping her cheeks and walking out as well, but not before putting her hand on top of her head and subconsciously smiling

*****

" 9,784...9,785" Adon counts as he does one-handed upside-down push-ups, he had a large rock balancing on his feet as well during his training

This was his way of getting stronger, it also trained his legs so his Agility stat increased slightly as well

(My king... why do you train so hard) A silver wolf said laying down and watching him

"Haha Aluna... I just want to be useful, Here in the forest you people treat me as the strongest even though I'm not... and I'm definitely far from it back in Olympus" He said stopping his workout after 10,000

As he was about to wipe himself down, Aluna came forward (Let me my king) She said and started licking him clean

Adon just watched her antics with a smile, This was normal for Aluna, she licked the other wolves clean, This was a sign of affection but as the pack leader she did it to every won't so he didn't look too much into it

(All clean) She gave one last lick on his chest and stepped back

"Thanks, Aluna... I'm heading back now, tell everyone I said hi!" Adin said before bursting away

(My...king) Aluna looked down and turned away going deeply into the forest, she still remembered how he had saved them

(Flashback)

Adon had just arrived in the forest, he had a goal to get stronger over these ten years

So he started training every day, Several critters of the forest showed up every day to watch, one of them being Aluna

She didn't trust that he had good intentions, and this was a fair assumption seeing as most gods would destroy the forest when angry

(Leave!) She yelled as he started his training again growling, She would never hurt him unless he proved to be an enemy, she just wanted to scare him away

"I'm sorry... am I bothering you?" He asked stopping his training and looking over at her, He hadn't been able to talk to animals before so this was new for him

(Yes... you are defiling the land) She said lying to get him to leave after the judged his character, it was obvious he was gullible and would leave easily

"Ok sorry I'll go then" All his training equipment disappeared as he walked away much to Aluna's joy

1 hour later however things changed as they were attacked by stray demons

Aluna took the demons head-on and tried to protect the pack, but she was quickly starting to get overwhelmed by the hordes of demons

"Stop!" A voice cried out and a silver-haired god stood in front of her with a makeshift bow and ready to defend her

She was shocked to see he was still here, and even more so when she saw him protecting her

(W-what are you doing?) She asked as she tried to stand and failed falling back with a yelp

"Sorry for not leaving, don't worry I'll leave as soon as I help you guys" He then smiles at her and destroyed the demons, They were very low level so it wasn't hard, the only reason she couldn't was because of the numbers

******

Adon reached home once again after his training and saw Hephaistos sitting on the sofa deep in thought

"Hey... what are you thinking about?" He asked sitting next to her, Of course with a little distance

"U-Um... can I tell you something?" She asked, and he could tell it was something serious, Hephaestus had visited earlier...and it wasn't good...

(A/N: Well cliffhangers gotta cliff😎)