We stayed still in bed, hours or minutes I couldn’t tell, time around me seemed to have simply frozen, the only thing I could see was him.

The commander.  

He stared at me intensely after uttering such sweet words, after confessing that his heart was mine.

My heart was his too; in an unexpected and incomprehensible way, I realized that he had stolen my heart, and I wasn’t sure when exactly that had happened. From the first time I saw him in that arena, he had awakened ...