Sharing a few talks with Helder and mending our stumbling bonds, I returned to my room where Saafia was holding the bouquet close to her chest, she plucked a rose out and tugged it behind her ears. "How do I look?" Damn you, woman. Always asking knowing you look inexplicably beautiful and desirable. I smirked. "Don't know. Fine. Whatever." She rolled her eyes, "I take that as inexplicably beautiful." "That's what I just said." I spoke to myself. "What?" "Nothing." When my eyes fell on her, my heart skipped a beat, indulging how angelic she was looking in the composure. “Now tell me what happened?" She asked, rising from the bed quickly when I entered with slight worry. "Is everything alright? Why did you make me go inside?” “Yeah, everything is alright, vex not. He was asking to

