TWELVE!

BRIANNA

The sound of my name made me abruptly turn around without thinking.

I screamed in my mind at who it was. “Liam,” I whispered because I knew he could hear me, guess I'm already getting a hang of all these.

What is doing here and how did he find me? His eyes trailed down my body and I realized I was nearly half baked. I covered my body with my hands and saw him smirk.

He took off his clothes and dived into the stream. He gave a big splash everywhere.

“What are you doing? Someone might see us,” I said to him.

He made a sound with his lips, “no they cannot,” he said and I gave him a look.

“The real question is what are you doing here,” I swallowed hard and tried to swim away from him, but he held me back.

“You didn't answer my question,’’ he said, I jerked my arm off and kept my distance. Trish said the mate bond can make one have a lot of feelings, and I can already feel myself getting hot.

“I belong here,” I said to him, giving him a vague answer to his question.

“I'm not disputing that. You are a werewolf but you can't be here,” he said and I narrowed my eyes on him. What does he mean by that?

He gritted his teeth, I'm guessing he shouldn't have said that but that won't stop me from asking some questions.

“Why can't I be here?” I asked him.

“Forgive me,” he said, like a gentleman, “I shouldn't have said that,” he said.

We swimmed in silent for a while until both of us spoke at the same time.

“You go first,” I said to him. He nodded and cleared his throat.

“So you work here now?” He asked and it took me about a second to answer that.

“Yeah, I said to him, telling him I'm a duchess to this very large fortune will just bring up a lot of questions that I don't think I'm ready or equip to answer.

“My friend and I returned together, so we are working together as well,” I said to him.

He twisted his mouth, “you mean the one who knocked me out?” He asked, I chuckled and nodded.

“I'm sorry about that but she was only protecting me not trying to hurt you,” I said to him.

“Well, she did hurt me. I had a nasty headache for days,” he pouted and I chuckled. He's cute when he does that.

“Tread carefully,” I heard my wolf, Dia, say to me. She finally came to me in one of my liquid manipulation lessons with Trish.

“What are you thinking about?” He asked, I looked at his eyes and they were blue. I have never seen that on him before.

“Just having a mini chat,” I said, secretly manipulating the water around me.

“With yourself?” He asked.

“No, not really,” I said, smiling at him.

“Oh with your wolf?” He asked.

*Don't tell him,” Dia said but I sensed a hesitation in her voice.

“Yes, she came out fully, recently,” I said to him.

“That's great,” he said, “nobody likes a wolfless wolf,’’ he said and I scoffed.

“I'm sorry, I didn't mean to come out like that,” he said but I was already pissed.

So if I hadn't told him that was what he was going to refer to me as. Wolfless?

“Brianna, wait!” I swam towards the edge of the stream but somehow he was in front of me.

“How did you do that?” I asked and he smirked.

“I could teach you,” he said and all of a sudden we were in the middle of the stream.

Our faces were only inches apart and I could feel Dia moving inside of me, excited.

“He smells so good,” she said and I chuckled.

“What did she say?” He asked and I found myself blushing.

He placed my wet hair behind my ears and brought my face even closer to him.

This is the son of the man who had my parents and Trish's parents killed. Why do I have to be so damn attracted to him?

“Liam..” I tried to speak but his lips crushed on mine with a deep kiss. We were in the middle of the streams and just the sound of the waterfall between us.

I placed my arms around his neck and he brought me closer with his hands on my waist, deepening the kiss.

His tongue danced around with mine and I felt an arching pleasure between my thighs and it felt good.

He squeezed my butt and I moaned in his mouth, the night of our one night stand filled my mind and I suddenly wanted to be on top of him.

We heard some giggling and we pulled apart suddenly, breathing heavily.

“I have to go,” I said, swimming to the edge of the stream. This time he didn't stop me.

I got to the edge and turned around but he was gone.

I raced back into the house because I knew Trish would have heard of my little sexcaped right about now.

I got to my chambers and took the towel already laid on the bed.

“What were you thinking?!” Trish yelled as she walked into the bedroom.

“Be Careful Trish, you almost gave me a heart attack,” I said to her and she scoffed.

“A heart attack will be the least of your worries when the king finds out you are messing with his son,” she said.

“I'm messing around with him, Trish!” I cried out, “I don't seem to be myself around him, do you understand that?”

She inhaled and exhaled and walked up to me, “yeah, I do.” She said and suddenly she faded away.

“Trish,” I called her name but she didn't respond, “Trisha!” I shook her whole body.

“I'm sorry,” she apologized.

“Are you okay?” I asked

“Yeah, you should get dressed, we have a meeting to get to,” she said walking away.

“Are you sure you are okay Trish?” I asked her again as she got to the door.

“Yeah, I'm fine. It's just been a while since I thought of something,” she said and walked away before I asked any more questions.

I inhaled and walked into my closet and brought out a neatly placed green flowery gown, I put on green lingerie and put on my gown.

With my hair done the duchess way, I walked out of my room and headed outside.

“You look beautiful, your grace,” one of the servants said to me.

I got outside and met with Agatha and Trish.

“Stunning, Duchess Brianna,” Agatha said, smiling.

“Thank you Agatha,” I said to her. I'm still not used to being called a duchess.

Trish dressed in a simple nude color gown and let her hair down. She looks stunning, maybe too stunning.

“Are we going somewhere after the meeting?” I asked her.

“No,” she said abruptly, as we got into the car.

Surprisingly, I have my own guards and also a lot of soldiers.

We got to an airfield in thirty minutes and got a helicopter.

Who knew the supernatural world would be as polished as this.

As we got close to the palace, I could see how beautiful it is. Its high rise building and magnificent design.

We got out of the helicopter and headed straight to the palace.

The view was beautiful and breathtaking. I could see Trish suddenly becoming uncomfortable.

“Is everything okay, Trish?” I asked her.

“Yeah, everything is fine,” she said, giving a fake smile.

We stood on a line because before we get to the meeting as ranking royals we have to give our respects to the Alpha King. Which is the perfect opportunity to introduce myself to him without the threats.

“Her grace, the duchess of Greenwich, Duchess Brianna and her Lady, the lady of leatherflow, Lady Trisha,” the announcer declared us to the court, as we walked towards the King.

“Your Majesty,” I bowed sliently.