Intruder

"I'm home!"

"Ms Liza, your parents left about two hours from now. They went to Izquierrdo's mansion," Rose, their chamberlain said.

"Did they mention why they have to go there? It is already 5:00 pm and they do not do business on weekends"

"No, ma'am. They said it is important and they will call if they will be having their dinner here. Do you want something?"

"Please bring a glass of apple juice and blueberry cheese cake in my room."

"Yes, ma'am. Do you want anything for dinner?"

"Pasta with basil will do. Thank you"

She went straight to her room. She took a slow hot shower bath to release the stress starting to build in her mind. She let her mind to drift in daydream.

Knock! knock! knock!

"Ms Liza, your food is here. I'll place it in your study table." Rose said that made Liza came back to reality.

"Oh! Yes. Thank you!"

"Don't take shower too long. You've been half of an hour inside. It won't help unless you address the issue to him."

"Alright! Just call me once dinner is prepared."

Liza heard the door closed and she let her mind go back in her dream land for a few more minutes.

After a while, though the water is hot, she starts to shiver and when she looked on her hands, she noticed that they were too pale and wrinkle.

"I've been too long in the shower, but it doesn't help a bit."

She dried herself and choose a light red t-shirt and pajamas. She ate her blueberry afterwards and tried to read her favorite book, "The Eye of the World".

'Yes! I'm going to claim her before being hailed as an alpha but she doesn't know that she is mine yet.'

Mike's words kept on repeating in her mind. She can't focus on what she was reading. She had been spending more than ten minutes in each paragraph of the book she is reading before she could understand what it is all about.

"Damn. Mike! What have you'd done! I'm gonna kill her! I will give no mercy for taking you away from me!" she suddenly blurted out loud then she closed the book. She stared the cover of the book for a while but started to feel uneasy that she felt she was being watched. She was about to go to the window to peek outside but she saw something moved in the corner of her eye in her balcony.

Knock! Knock!

"Ms Liza, dinner is ready. Sir Mike was here. He will be joining you for dinner."

"Alright! I'll just check something. Be there in five."

When she heard the footsteps left her door, she went to her balcony and about to turn the knob of the door to open it...

"I won't open it if I were you. Your mom had called me to be on guard here for your safety until they arrived," Mike said in monotone that surprised her making her jump in her position. He was leaning in her closed door when she turned around to face her.

"How could you be here without me knowing?" she said glaring daggers to him and trying to calm herself.

"You were so busy on your business with the hide and seek that I entered the room without you noticing it," he said with a smirk and in a blink of an eye he was just inches away from her. "Let's have dinner before I changed my mind to eat you as my dinner."

"Silly!"

"You'll like the way I will eat you and you will beg for more", he said and he licked his mouth and pinned her to the wall placing her hands in both side of head.

'What the hell is he trying to implied with it. I'm not food to eat.'

He was about to kiss her but she stopped him and starred him straight to the eye. His once blue eyes started to change to golden yellow with specs of red.

"I believe Rose had come to fetch me for dinner and she might be dragging the hell here if I didn't come down to the dining hall in about 2 minutes."

Mike gave a kiss in the crook of her neck before releasing his grip in her hands. They went down and she requested to have their dinner at the kitchen with Rose. She tried to hide her tension from Rose's suspicious eyes because of Mike's odd behavior after their hangout in the cabana and what had happened a while ago in her room.

"Sir, will you be staying here the whole night?" Rose asked to start a conversation in their meal.

"No, and please stop calling me Sir. Mike will do."

"He will be leaving once my parents arrive."

"So mean of you, baby doll. I will be staying here, Rose."

"OK, Sir. I mean Mike. I'll prepare the guest room after dinner."

"Hmmm... I think I want to stay with Liza. I have to stay on guard." Mike said with a teasing smirk in his face.

Liza's eyes widened on what she heard. She felt that her heart skipped a beat.

"Don't worry. I won't do something bad on you. I'll just want to make sure he wouldn't come again."

"Who are you referring to?" Rose asked and being a chamberlain, she was tasked to ensure the safety of Liza especially her parents are not around.

"The guy you saw at your balcony."

"I thought I was just hallucinating due to tiredness." Liza noticed that Rose is punching something on the screen of her phone.

"I have to excuse myself. I hope you enjoy your stay here tonight, Mike", Rose said and left her seat.

"Is there something I need to know?" Liza asked in confusion. She was aware that her parents started to act strangely after the visit of the three men from her grandfather's territory.

"I had to ensure that there is no one had gone too far to your room, my lady. Your safety is my priority here if your parents are not around. I have to ensure we have tight security." Rose said before leaving the kitchen.

"I feel something bad is going to happen. Do you have any idea?"

"I don't have either. Have you met Adam and his company?"

"I don't remember them much but I had seen them few days ago I think i f they are the people that talked to mom and dad."

"They also went to our house after leaving here. They were about to leave my place when I reach it. It seemed they are some kind of supernatural."

"How do you say so?"

"When I was about to leave I saw your father talk to them and overheard their conversation but I cannot remember what it was all about. I left them and drove my car fast but when I reach home, father was bidding his goodbye to them and one of them gave me a tap at the shoulder not knowing for what it was."

"I see. It seems that they were hiding something to us."

"We'll know that once we reach Russia. We could ask the Alpha if they know something," Mike grabbed his phone and texted someone.

After having their dessert, they cleaned their plates and headed to her room. Liza is starting to get anxious of the behavior of the people around her especially her best friend Mike.

"Do you want to watch movie?" Liza asked.

"Someone has been here. He smelled of a rogue." Mike was in his full alertness and tried to sniff more air.

"Your kidding me. The security might have sensed them."

"Lady Liza! Lady Liza!" Someone has been shouting outside her room that surprised them. Liza went to her door and opened it. Rose stormed off inside her room.

"Rose, why are you shouting?"

"We checked all the recordings of surveillance cameras and we found someone has been here while we were having dinner. I already notify your parents and they will be here the soonest they can, as well as your parents, Mike."

"You have to stay close to me, Liz. It seems they are after you."

Liza was not able to make a protest. She knew that once Mike told to stay close to him, something worse often happen. Since she become fully aware of her surroundings, she checked if something has been missing in her room and she noticed that in her table there was a piece of paper that she knew she didn't place anything in her table before she left her room for dinner.

"Where are you going? I said stay close to -"

"It's for me!" Liza said holding the letter and started reading it.

"He must have left that."

You may feel that we are on a watch. We have to ensure they won't get you. But dark hands will chase you even after your death. No one will be able to protect you except your mate.

Don't be so carefree young witch. They are about to start and the one you love are next in line.

After reading, Liza collapsed right in time her father reached the doorstep of her room. Luckily, Mike was able to catch her before she fell on the ground. Mike cradled her in his arms in a protective manner after placing her in her bed and when Samuel was about to get her daughter in his arms to tuck her in the bed, Mike gave a warning growl that surprised everyone in the room.

"Easy, son. He is her relative." Zander told standing near the door post in Liza's room

"He is not her father! His scent is so different from that of hers."

Everyone was silent in his statement. No one was able to move in their position as the tension increases. Amelia entered her room and hug Samuel's look alike ignoring the tight tension in the room.

"It's good to see you again. How was father?"

"He always pisses me to take over the position but to my opinion it seems that Sam is more capable of being the ruler than me. How come that you don't seemed so tense?"

"I have to think rational since Sam is starting get bewildered. I would like you to meet Sebastian, Samuel's twin brother. This is Mike, Liza's mate, I presume. The one in the door post is Zander, Mike's father," Amelia walked to Liza's bed. "What happened to her?"

"She lost her consciousness after reading this letter." Mike wave the letter near his face.

"Don't put that near your face. It has a powder that would dose you off. A witch is working whoever had been here" Amelia exclaimed.

"How did you know that Auntie?"

"I had seen that type of craft before."

"It seems that they want to be an ally in a wrong way. You should have fallen asleep, Mike. It only take less than ten seconds to take effect," Alejandro said that appeared out of nowhere. "They only want the first reader to have the effect. It seems that they want to show something in her dreams."

"Alejandro! How come you visit us without a word. You surprised me."

"Am I not allowed to visit my sister? Your husband called me that I had to come in instant, so, I have an excuse to get out of the stupid castle."

"It's just you went here by surprise."

"Family first, Youngling! Where's the husband of yours?"

"I locked him down in case he wasn't able to control himself. Father had given him some kind of potion that would show the beast he has. Lately, he is having a hard time controlling himself."

"Oh! I see. Maybe that's the reason he had called me in instant. Everything is changing."

"I think all of you should go outside so that Liza could have a rest. Mike had been holding her for quite sometime now."

After Amelia had shoved them out of Liza's room and instructed Rose to prepare something to eat and drink for them, she helped Mike to tuck Liza in her bed.

"Stay here, Mike. If she wakes up, call me or Alejandro."

"Yes, Auntie," Mike is hugging Liza protectively. "What happened to uncle?"

"He is a lycan and since he was not able to turn when he was young, his beast is now trying to surface every night."

Amelia, leave the two in the room and headed downstairs to talk with her friends and relatives.