Aaron sat at his desk and stared at the stack of documents in front of him, but he couldn't focus on a single word because his mind kept drifting back to Raven and the way she had looked at him in the eastern district when they talked about loss and family. He had tried to push her out of his thoughts for the past few days but it wasn't working. Every time he closed his eyes, he saw her face. Every time he tried to concentrate on kingdom business, he found himself wondering what she was doing and if she was thinking about him too. This was ridiculous and he knew it. He barely knew her and she had tried to kill him multiple times. There was no logical reason why he should be feeling this way. But logic had nothing to do with it and his heart didn't care about reason or sense. It just

