Chapter 460 - FOURTEEN YEARS OLD (11)

Hope widened her eyes in surprised when she watched Kace got down from the car and waltzed through the yard filled with roses. 

Well, it a sight to behold when he did that and Hope found herself gawked at his broad shoulder when she supposed to run after him and dragged him back to the car before he frightened the poor family.

When her consciousness snapped, Hope rushed toward Kace, who had stood tall at the terrace of the siblings' house.

Ethan was standing tall before his mother while Ian was standing one step ahead of his twins, protecting both. 

On the other hands, Kace was crossing his arms only five steps away from them, in this proximity, if Kace decided to lash out in his beast form, Hope highly doubted that Ian and Ethan would stand a chance against him.

Hope had seen how Kace fought as the beast, he was, by any means, was fierce and brutal, feral even and his beast size was so massive.

"Kace, what are you doing?!" Hope shrieked, she threw herself in front of Kace and hugged his body, hoping this was enough to restrain him if that silly thought of attacking her friend's family ever crossed his mind. "Let's go home!" 

Hope's heart dropped when she watched the way Kace smirked as he tilted his head to catch a glimpse of the woman behind the twins. 

He did not spare Hope a glance. 

"Stand down pups, you don't know who you are challenging." Kace's voice came out very relax and laced with amus.e.m.e.nt. 

"GET OUT OF OUR HOUSE!" Ethan snarled at Kace and this made Hope jumped out of her skin, she had never heard Ethan snarled at anyone before, though he wasn't as friendly as Ian, but Hope didn't think he was someone who would take out his frustration on someone

Kace freed one of his arms from Hope's tight hug rather easily, as Hope thought he would jump into an action because being shouted at, Kace was placing his big palms on the back of Hope's back, caressing her long hair in soothing movement as if he tried to calm her tensed nerves and provide comfort.

"Move boys, you don't talk to our guest like that."

All of sudden, there was a sweet and stern voice from behind Ethan as a woman tried to make her way out from the protection of her sons, but they didn't budge at all.

"Mom, you don't know him!" Ethan tried to hold back her mother, who was glaring at him now. "He is dangerous!" 

Kace chuckled upon hearing that. "Well, do you know me mutt?" 

Honestly speaking, Ethan and Ian didn't know the man before their eyes. They acted the way they did now just because they felt the immense power and authority that radiated out of Kace and the feeling of being intimidated didn't settle well with werewolf, especially the rogue, as they lived all by themselves and didn't take the hierarchy of their kind.

"Don't talk to my children that way Kace, I will beat you." The woman, finally managed to get out of her Ethan' cage and stood beside Ian.

She looked like a woman in her late twenty, but it would be impossible, because she wouldn't have children who was already as big as the twins. 

But Hope remembered, those shifters aged differently.

However, the things that shock Hope wasn't how young the woman was, the fact that the woman talked that way to Kace, startled her.

"Hi, Sophia." Kace grinned from ear to ear as he waved his hand at the woman. 

Apparently, it wasn't only Hope, who was in great shock, but Ian and Ethan as well, both of them threw incredulous look to their mother and Kace back and forth. 

"Do you know him, mom?!" Ian shrieked with wide eyes. 

"Do you know them?" Hope raised her head to look at Kace, ignoring the fact that the big bad wolf was messing with her hair. "Kace!"

Hope was frustrated because Kace was laughing hard upon seeing his little mate stressful expression. "I know her." he finally admitted when he watched the woman walked toward him with sullen expression. "Hi, Sophia. Long time no see."

The woman named Sophia didn't seem please with the way Kace greeted her, she still has this stern expression on her face. "This is how you greet your old friend after years? By insulting their pups?" 

Sophia was still upset because Kace called her children mutt. 

On the other hand, Kace raised both of his hands. "They offended me first."

Sophia sighed and shook her head. "Still very childish."

"Oh, I can smell you, you brat!" there was a loud voice boomed from inside the house when a man as tall as Kace stepped out of the threshold followed by the scared Rossie, clutching her father's shirt.

Kace let out a guttural laugh as he freed himself from Hope's arms and gave Sophia a hug. 

Everyone's eyes were bulging out of their socket and the man growled angrily. "Hands off of my mate you brat!"

Sophia didn't look surprised by the sudden proximity, she just looked annoyed and when Kace moved to hug the man, he stepped away to avoid him.

"Don't touch me!" the man grumbled loudly. 

"At least give me a welcoming hug, you heartless wolf." Kace complained as he opened his arms widely, but all he got was only a pat on his shoulder. "You are still very tactless, Sterling." He followed the man into the house, leaving the teenagers' jaw dropped in shocked. 

"Mom, do you know him?" Rossie was hugging her mother's arm while looking at her father and Kace, who was walking into the house. Her beautiful eyes laced with concern and curiosity.

"I know him." Sophia confirmed with an affirmative nod. "Ian, stop snarling. Ethan, brew some tea for our guest and Rossie, help me to prepare dinner." Sophia distributed her orders to her children as she grumbled. "This Lycan will gobble up our food storage."