Chapter 409 - THE GIRL

Kace was driving while Hope was sitting on her new infant safety, behind him with Serefina, playing with her new teether and teddy bear. 

Along the way, Serefina would mostly stare out of the window as if she was in deep thought, she would stay like that if Hope didn't cry to ask their attention to be fed or cleaned. 

There was only song from radio that filled the silence inside the car or Hope's voice that would rumble incoherently. 

And when the sky turned dark and the moon illuminated the road, Kace looked for an inn for them to stay for tonight. 

From outside people, the three of them looked like a happy family, yet the truth was slightly complicated to explain.

Kace turned off the engine and unbuckled Hope as he carried the baby and took a backpack along with Hope's teddy bear. The baby was sleeping again. 

The smell of milk that wafted on Kace's nose, the moment he carried her, created a curl on his lips as he gazed at her warmly.

Kace caressed her cheeks and kissed her forehead as happiness washed away his anxiety that he had been holding back ever since Serefina told him about her plan. 

He held her small hand as spark crept on the surface of his skin. 

Meanwhile Serefina made a reservation for them, the same arrangement; one room with twin bed without balcony because they didn't want to create opportunity for those who haunted them to sneak behind their back. 

The night went just like before.

Serefina would sleep almost immediately once her head touched the pillow and Kace would spare sometime to play with Hope, who was awake when he would go to sleep. 

Kace chose to sleep on the single sofa that he brought next to the bed where Hope was surrounded securely by large pillow and blanket.

Kace was afraid that he would accidently crush the baby in his sleep, that was why he slept there. 

After feeding and cleaning her, he played with the baby until she yawned sleepily and fell asleep peacefully. 

Only then, Kace would sleep.

When the first ray of sunlight appeared on the horizon, Serefina had woken up and took a bath while Kace would check on Hope and made a warm milk for his baby. 

"I think we will arrive at the mystic river village in the evening, but I hope we will get there before the sun set." Serefina was more like mumbling to herself while drying her brown hair with towel in her hands. 

"Do you have a place there? A house or something?" Kace asked off handedly. 

"A house." Serefina replied as she called for breakfast to be brought to their room. She didn't bother to ask what Kace wanted because the big Lycan, literally, would eat anything as long as it was edible. There would be no protest from him. 

Kace wasn't surprised when Serefina said she own a house there, after all she had been staying in mystic river village for very long time. 

When Kace had done to take care of Hope, he went to take a bath and when he finished, two slice sandwiches were ready for him

And when the sun had shone brightly out of the window, the three of them left the inn. 

Kace was holding the bag while Serefina was cradling Hope in her arms, their journey to the mystic river village was very tiring. 

Only when he got there, Kace would get a proper rest.

However, when they reached their car, Kace let out a deep low growl when he watched a girl, around the age of twelve, was leaning his back against their car. 

It wasn't because Kace didn't like the dirty girl would stain his car, but the fact that the girl was a shifter, was the reason why Kace let out a deep low grumble from the back of his throat. 

"Move!" Kace took a defensive stance as he stood in front of Serefina, who was holding baby Hope. 

A child or not, as long as they were shifter, they tended to be more vicious and cunning than the normal human on their age. 

The girl held her chin high and glared back at Kace. Her brown eyes flashed with irritation by the way Kace talked to her. She took a quick glance at Serefina, but couldn't see what she was holding. 

"Bring me with you!" She declared out of the blue, squared her small shoulder and tried to be more presentable when her dirty outfit failed her miserably. 

"What on earth that make you think I will bring you with me?!" Kace scoffed and shoved the girl out of the way, so he could open the car door for Serefina as she squatted down into the car.

"Because you are an Alpha!" the girl's stern expression was unfazed when she looked at Kace and tried to hold his arms. "You are a werewolf!"

Kace glared at the girl when she touched him, but she didn't take it as the sign for her to release her hand from him, if anything, the girl clutched onto Kace tighter. 

"First, I am not a werewolf, I am a Lycan and no, I am not an Alpha. I am a rogue!" Kace snapped at her and shook his hand.

The girl was thrown a few steps back. She hastily steadied herself and frowned at Kace, maybe she was wrong when she thought that Kace was a werewolf, but she was sure that the Kace was an Alpha.

It was in their instinct to know the higher rank in their kind immediately when they met with one, and this submissive feeling that she felt made her certain that Kace was an Alpha. 

"Take me with you, I don't have family! My family was murdered!" the girl quickly latched on the car window when she watched Kace had started the car engine. 

Her fist bumped onto the side of the window, but Kace didn't care, he even didn't spare her a single glance while baby Hope blinked her eyes curiously at the noisy sound.