Hearth's Champion: Child of Poseidon by D. R. Rosier

Author:D. R. Rosier [Rosier, D. R.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2022-10-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

The blessing was a bit overwhelming at first that Friday morning, even with it just being Hali and I as we got up. We had a reprise of the night before, sparred, and had gotten breakfast. A lot of my insights into Hali’s needs were accurate, but that came from five years of friendship and her being my teacher, so it certainly wasn’t a waste to have the power. I didn’t have five years to spend alone with every new mate I’d find before we actually took that step. If that made sense.

It also made it a less self-conscious thing to give her firm orders and tell her what to wear, when I could sense just how strongly she needed that to feel content and at home. Lastly, I couldn’t keep my hands off of her, and I don’t mean sexually though that was surely true as well. Sure, I’d known she was a toucher, but she took comfort in my touch as well. Outside of sparring I found myself stroking her arm, squeezing her hand, and caressing her back often, to her warm delight. I couldn’t not do it, and I realized from that fact that Hestia’s warning was far from per functionary. The blessing was already partially dictating my actions, but in Hali’s case I saw no reason to fight that. She wasn’t a stranger, she was my mate, and beyond trustworthy and would never take advantage.

Plus, I’d hardly classify needing to touch my mate often as a burden or distasteful, or even out of character.

It didn’t take me long to figure out how to sink my mind into the blessing and pull it in, but it did require a whole lot of my concentration to do it. I knew it’d get easier in time, and I’d have to work on that as well as using willpower to resist it. At the same time, I wasn’t overly worried that I’d start going around touching strangers, since that need also surely had a comfort level of intimacy attached to it. People didn’t feel comfortable being touched by a stranger, so that situational need for normal personal space to be comfortable would be an overriding factor.

Though I suspected there might be some overlapping there. Especially for Katerina and even Allison who had no trouble with the idea of a stranger not only just touching them but fucking them. I might have to resist that. Their personalities and comfort level might want it, but to do it would make them suspicious or weirded out because it was against social rules of society. I’d have to see, and I could resist it. I had a focused mind and wasn’t a weak willed man, and I was stubbornly determined to get a handle on it all. Just because it wouldn’t be easy didn’t mean I couldn’t do it, or that it wouldn’t be worthwhile. That I gave in for Hali, and would for future family, didn’t make me weak, it just made sense.

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