Eko lets Matthew guide her through the rest of the level, checking out the lecture halls and study areas for the students and soldiers and moving around the levels from there.

The brunette, with her Commander, had begun to see the world that was Allegiant. Hours seemed to have crept past them, and deep within the evening, they finally found themselves in front of the training arenas.

Matthew watched as her eyes lit up, wondering when a girl ever had this effect on him.

It wasn't normal, whatever this was, and he put it down to the building chemistry between them. The knowledge that potentially nothing could ever happen, nor was she in the place mentally or emotionally to be considering any thoughts running through his head at the moment.

"I did read that you guys held the best training facilities here," oh, she had hoped that the rumours were true.

She had been dying to get in there to flex her abilities. Being crammed into the infirmary meant she couldn't go wondering when she wanted, nor disappear to defeat any monsters.

Eko's disappearance would truly be noticed if she had disappeared for hours on end, which meant she needed to keep herself off the radar of such things. Much to her dismay, she could begrudgingly only imagine what those annoying warriors were getting up to without her to keep them in check.

Matthew grinned at the woman before him; she showed the same excitement as he would get when relishing that he could let off steam in the most destructive way, pushing their limits in training.

"With better technology, evidently, if we weren't limited, Jesse could create more for the training systems, but we're working on it for now. With what we have. It's good. I think you'll be pleased with the facilities."

Matthew made his way from the elevator to level sixteen, "three levels, as I mentioned before, and each was designed for a different station. Level sixteen is for the staff of Allegiant and the elite. Level fourteen and fifteen are for our soldiers, and level thirteen is the cadet's training programs."

"And we're on sixteen?"

Punching in his code, the grand doors slid open, revealing an enormous training arena, and the man watched as the brunette's form swayed from foot to foot in excitement.

"We're on sixteen. I'm confident to believe your skillset is up to the minimum requirements in this arena."

Eko turned to the man; glee filled her as he smiled at her ecstatic state. He was entranced with her being, her happiness in need for a session, and her desire to train. Perhaps it was simply in the way she came alive, almost the way that anyone does with something that brought them joy these days.

"If you still want to, of course," he smiled widely. The whole time, he had never thought he could spend this much time with a person, that alone being a stranger.

The only other person of the opposite sex he spent this much time with was Jesse; not even his personal nightly life endured this kind of private time with someone. It took him quietly by surprise that he hadn't batted an eyelid at that fact.

The brunette beside him grinned widely, "that's not even a question to be asked, is it?"

However, their movements were halted by the appearance of a few girls that tailed behind a woman who had found the man she was looking for. The woman knew he would be there, and it was such a waiting before he appeared.

"Mattie!" she called, waving, and he instantly felt his body cringe at the sound of her voice. He didn't want Eko to stare at him how she had. How the smartass before him held this bemused look on her face, this inevitable smug look that told him she would be using this against him.

Fuck.

Eko cocked her mouth, trying not to laugh at the stare he gave her before diverting his attention to his adoring Fanclub.

In all honesty, when Jesse had briefly described these women, she didn't expect them to act like this.

Half embarrassed for the poor blonde before her, Eko watched inquisitively as the man masked himself from what he had been with her. Matthew had pulled the arrogant, cocky, and, she must say, flirtatious mask about, which suddenly, in a way, also intrigued her.

Gone was the man freely talking to her, and unexpectedly the commanding playboy was here.

"Hailey," he smiled as he would to all his fan club. Not once, Eko noticed, did the tall, said blonde, all legs, incredible physique, regard her at all.

The soldier's pants fitted tightly to her body, the curvature of her waist was present with how she stood, the shirt loosely to her body, and her training crop top showed the abs on her stomach from her loose shirt.

Abs that Eko cannot help but stare at, were they even real? The hell? she literally looked like she was photoshopped.

Eko did not have that kind of restraints that Hailey clearly had, no, no, no- she was a massive fan of food, of all varieties, mostly desert.

She got extremely lucky that she was in great shape from her double life of being a side-masked warrior.

It kept her in fantastic form when she wasn't forced to be a Princess, the same Princess that was forced into her corseted gowns and strict diet due to her mother and cousin and their image with the public.

"Hey darling," Hailey kissed him on the cheek, greeting him as though he was her own. Fingers latched onto his chest for a moment too long, and her strong foreign accent was presented in how she elongated her wording.

"Tonight, we are still meeting? Yes?" there was that wink he got from them all, and the giggling bunch of women with Hailey admired how their friend was so forward with him.

Smugly and not at all jealous, she knew what that awkward feeling was like from the Prince's that would try the same thing with her.

She stared between Hailey and Matthew, even if he stood there almost palming off the woman's attention in the only way he knew how to these days. It was highly amusing being on this side of things.

"Sorry, babe, I'll have to give tonight a miss. Training and such," he shrugged, "you understand. With everything I do?"

Hailey's face dropped only a little before she quickly regarded herself, not to seem as though she was utterly devastated, not that she hadn't been counting the hours till she got this night to herself.

"Oh no," Eko's chirpy voice began, placing a hand to her heart, indicating if she had interrupted, "by all means, don't let me stop you. If you need to keep the time with Hailey, was it?" Eko smiled warmly, "leave me your code for training, and I'll catch up with you tomorrow?"

That was way one to get her access codes to the training centre, internally dancing on the inside at the thought that this was perfect!

Gorgeous and perky blonde Hailey quickly took in the brunette-haired woman beside Matthew. Her first impression of the ordinary woman considered her as a non-threat to her one and one time with the Commander. The quick dart of chestnut eyes darted up and down, and she was in no comparison to her.

Steel eyes turned to Eko, who, as much as she grated on his nerves for that, smiled innocently towards him, battering her eyelids, knowing precisely what she had done.

"Sorry Hails," he turned to her with a smile that melted the intimidating soldier, "no can do."

Hailey quickly nodded and, with a brilliant smile towards the man, accepted the rejection, "understood, of course!"

"Good. I'll catch up with you when I'm back."

This time he turned, placing a hand on Eko's back to turn her with him, wanting to lead her inside the arena, which she obliged.

"Goodnight, ladies," he waved towards Hailey and her group of girls that had followed her.

"Bye Mattie!" Hailey giggled as the doors immediately slid shut, and the echo of three of the girls followed suit in their goodbye.

Each one was as chirpy as the one beside them, and he contemplated the following words to the girl beside him.

The same one smirked at him and now burst into laughter, finding the entire thing ridiculous.

What the hell was he going to do with this little minx?

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