A CHALLENGE

"Ah!" Lucien hurriedly covers Juliet with the bedsheet and picks up his shirt.

He is still putting it on when Brianna glances toward him and stares away almost immediately as if staring at him pricks her heart or maybe it does prick her heart.

Normally, she would have kept her gaze on him and would also say something sarcastic to him but she says nothing and doesn't even act like she just saw him half shirtless.

Something she's dreamed to see for several nights and imagined running her hands all over it; from his shoulders to his biceps down to his chest and nipples then finally to his abs.

But things have changed and it hurts her to know that it has. Why did she have to wake up? Why did the bitch Juliet have to wake up? Gosh! It infuriates her! It makes her grit her teeth! It makes her breathing erratic! It makes her eyes cold!

While walking out of the ward in tears earlier, she was aware that Lucien saw her tears and so once out, she had expected he would come running to comfort he