Chapter 463 - FOURTEEN YEARS OLD (14)

"What do you mean you had seen worse?" Hope leaned back against the head board and looked at Kace warily. 

"I had seen more blood than that." Kace shrugged nonchalantly, but then he looked at Hope mischievously. "And after you pooped and peed on me, do you think a small blood could compare to that?"

Kace knocked Hope's head softly.

"Go sleep. Don't think too much about that." Kace took the empty glass and put it on the bed side table as he tucked her in.

Hope laid flat on her stomach and Kace gave a massage on her lower back that made Hope sighed in contentment. 

"Kace?" Hope mumbled with her eyes closed.

"Hm?" Kace hummed in response. 

"Did I trouble you?" Hope asked.

"No." Kace answered lightly.

"Even when I peed on you?" Hope's eyebrows scrunched up. 

"Even after you did what you had done on me." Kace said softly, his voice was like a lullaby for Hope. 

"If I am not your mate, would you treat me the same?" Hope yawned, the chamomile tea helped her relax and Kace helped her to feel better.

"If you are not my mate, I don't think we will meet at all. But, it doesn't mean I will treat other people poorly. I will not lash out without reason, right?" Kace smiled when he heard Hope chuckled. 

"I am glad we met." Hope opened her eyes and stared at Kace. 

"Mmh, so do I." Kace nodded, agreed with her. At this point, he had to remind himself to thank Serefina for this. Despite she was always being very annoying, arrogant and all, but she did something that change his life entirely. The witch gave him Hope. "So, do you change your mind? You said it last night that you didn't want me as your mate?"

"I will reconsider it." Hope grinned. "Auw! What's that for?"

Hope swatted Kace's hand from her back because he pinched her waist. 

"Oh, I will see what kind of guy who will dare enough to date you." Kace feigned an angry face that made Hope laughed. 

"Well, until this time, you are still the handsome guy that I have ever seen." Hope complimented him. 

Kace let out a soft laugh before he resumed to massage her back again. "Sleep Hope."

"What about Lana?" Hope yawned once again. 

"What about her?" Kace watched the girl's eyelashes fluttered as she fought her drowsiness.

"She looks mature and less troublesome. She is dependable." Her sleepy voice laced with envy. "Don't you find her attractive? While me, I am just a pain in the a**." Hope grumbled. 

"Don't compare yourself to her and well… you are my favorite pain in the a**."

But of them laughed and when Hope finally fell asleep she got the best sleep.

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"What are you doing?" Hope was ready to go to school when she came to the kitchen and sat on the bar stool, staring at Kace's back. 

"Looking something for breakfast." Kace had opened all the wooden cupboard and found nothing. 

"When Serefina and Lana are not at home, they will leave me with money to buy something to eat and I haven't shopped yet." Hope checked her backpack to see if she didn't miss anything there. 

"So, what will you eat for breakfast?" Kace widened his eyes in surprised he didn't know about this. 

Serefina…

Kace really wanted to talk in long sentences of profanities to the witch.

"I will buy it at school if I am not late." Hope shrugged her shoulder. 

"Let's go then." Kace grabbed her backpack and walked toward the front door with Hope followed behind him with a big silly grin on her face. 

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"So, that's the reason why you only visit me once a year?" Hope shoved a hotdog to her mouth. Both of them were in fast food restaurant near Hope's school building to get their breakfast. "To distract your brother's tracker?"

"I don't want him to know where I am." Kace finished his own hotdog and moved to another one. "You can say he is very stubborn."

"But, if your brother is really in love with Serefina why they don't get back together?" Hope tilted her head. "I had never seen Serefina dated anyone either."

The image of Serefina dated someone except his overbearing brother was ridiculous in Kace's head. The witch probably would turn the poor guy into a frog if he slipped with his words. 

"Well, it is complicated. My brother will eventually find his mate and Serefina will be in awkward position." Kace just told Hope whatever she wanted to know, but didn't say about his brother had been hunting her down to be killed. It would too much for her to handle for now. 

Kace fished out something from his pocket and gave it to Hope a small black card. 

"You give me money?" Hope shamelessly took the card, afraid if Kace would change his mind and snatch it away again.

"I will not worry if Lana is around, but since both of them are often away and I can't be here for long time, I don't want you starve." Kace continued to eat his second hotdog, staring at the happy girl in front of him. "Don't buy something that will bring trouble. Understood?"

"Okay." Hope nodded her head. "How much inside?" she was very happy to have her personal card. She thought it was nice to have Kace as her boyfriend, she could buy everything she wanted. 

It didn't mean Hope was lack of something, but Lana was very strict and wouldn't allow her to buy something unimportant. 

"Check to find out." Kace laughed when he watched Hope was very excited. The Lycan was hellbound to spoil his mate.

Mystic River village was a small village, far away from the hustle bustle big city, although you have a lot of money to spend, but there were only a few items desirable to buy. 

"Wow! You are the best!" Hope raised her two thumbs up.