Arkin stared at me for a few moments as I kept him pinned to the ground with all that I had. He was strong, so I had to use every bit of strength I had to keep him down. And the only reason he hadn’t overpowered me already was because he was still absorbing the fact that I got the better of him.
“You tell me to always be alert because the enemy wouldn’t give me the time to be ready, but you also need to understand that you can’t let your emotions interfere as that can get you killed just the same,” I said.
My words seemed to break him out of whatever trance he’d gotten into. No sooner had I finished speaking that he hooked his ankles around mine and brought me down with him, only to roll me around so that now I was under him and he was hovering over me with my arms now pinned to my sid
