Chapter 40

We lay 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 with intensity after speaking such sweet words, after confessing that his heart was mine.

My heart was also his, in an unexpected and incomprehensible way I realized this, he had taken my heart, and I wasn't sure when exactly this had happened, since the first time I saw him in that arena he had aroused strong feelings in me, at first he aroused my hatred, because it was his hands that had taken away the man I was sure I loved at the time.

And although I had strong feelings for Cristhofer, they couldn't be compared to what I felt for John, because what I felt for the alpha burned me from the inside out.

I wondered if he could see in my eyes how I felt.

— You're fired up Helena. — murmured John suddenly, snapping me out of my thoughts.

— What?

— Your heart. Did m