"Hey, calm down okay." Ian clutched his seatbelt tightly, beside him, Kace was driving the car like a madman while on the backseat, Rossie was being hugged by Ethan. "I know we have remarkable healing ability, but it doesn't mean we are immune to pain."
Kace ignored his rumble.
He was upset because Hope was going home with that brat. Kace knew, for days, Hope had been trying to make him jealous. Well, that girl tried to give him a hard time because she was still angry for the three years Kace didn't call her, which he could understand.
But, going home with him alone? Kace really wanted to pinch her rosy cheeks.
However, before Kace could reach their home, he saw Hope was being pushed toward an empty alley by Oliver.
It was all Kace needed to slam the break and got out of the car. His veins were bulging and his beast clawed his conscience when he watched his mate was being cornered.
"Kace, calm down!" Ian went after Kace hurriedly. Panic on his face. This was one of the reasons that no creatures should mess with a Lycan's mate. They would turn into a battle mode. "Let me go to them, I will punch that guy, okay!?"
Ian tried to drag Kace back to the car, but he was way too strong for a young werewolf like him and one glare from Kace was all it needed to make the pup whimpered and released his hand from him.
But, before they could walk closer and Kace wrecked some havoc there, they heard a shrill scream from the alley where Oliver had dragged Hope.
Kace and Ian were standing not too far, but close enough to see what was happening there without Hope or Oliver noticed their presence.
On the ground they could see Oliver was groaning in pain and then Hope's voice travelled from the alley before her slender figure appeared in Kace's line of sight, towering above the poor boy.
"Do you think it's easy to threaten me?" Hope brushed the invisible dirt from her clothes and caressed her long black hair. "I don't take a coercion nicely too."
The girl didn't talk loudly, but it was enough for the four supernatural creatures near her to hear what she was saying.
There was a soft giggle from Rossie while Ian's jaw dropped. "What did she just do?"
"I have told you that she could take care of herself." Ethan didn't seem surprised to see this.
Hope sneered when she watched Oliver was groaning in pain on the ground, then she bent her body to take her backpack and headed home, grumbling something incoherently with annoyed expression.
The girl didn't seem notice about the four people who were watching her. Too upset to even care about her surroundings.
When Hope had walked a few meters away from the empty alley, the siblings turned his attention toward Kace, who didn't move an inch from his spot.
And what they saw was surprised them. Kace's face beamed with satisfaction while his lips curled into a smug smile.
"That's my girl!" he exclaimed proudly.
The lycan, who was two minutes ago, ready to tear the boy's body into pieces, now was crossing his arms and lifting his chin arrogantly.
"You shouldn't mess with my girl, human!" Kace sneered when he watched Oliver was trying to stand with a suffering expression.
Ian didn't know, whether he had to feel relief because the bloody event did not happen, or he wanted to face palmed himself because of Kace's self- contented expression was annoying.
"Can you drive?" Kace's eyes zeroed in Hope's back when he asked.
Ian frowned upon hearing the question. "Yes, I can."
"Take it." Kace threw the car key toward Ian and walked away after he added. "I will get the car from your house latter."
Fortunately, Ian has a good reflex, thus before the car key hit his face, he already grabbed it. It was unsure, whether Kace do it on purpose or not.
"Wait! I don't have a license!" Ian shouted at Kace, but the latter ignored him completely as he jogged toward the center of his gravity. "You are a teacher, at least be responsible to your students!"
"He will not hear you." Rossie tapped his brother's shoulder, smile on her face as she looked at Kace.
"Why are you smiling like a fool?" Ian was very moody now. The problem was, his mother would scold him nonstop for driving. Not to mention he took his siblings with him.
Their parents just didn't believe him enough with the safety of Ethan and Rossie, even though he was the older son of the family.
"Don't raise your voice on her." Ethan knocked Ian's head, but his brother dodged it in time. "Let's go home."
"Kace is very cute." Rossie squealed and this earned a glare from Ian and Ethan. "I want a mate like him."
"No. Not someone annoying like him." Ian grumbled as he walked toward the car. "If our mother know about this, she will scold to no end."
"Stop complaining." Ethan opened the back seat for Rossie before he jumped to the front seat beside Ian.
"This lycan is a trouble." Ian still grumbled when he turn on the engine.
Meanwhile, the trouble lycan was walking behind Hope with a huge grin on his face as he put his arm around Hope's shoulder.
Hope gasped loudly as she thought it was Oliver, thus without even looking at the guy beside her, Hope elbowed him.
"Very feisty aren't you?" Kace didn't even flinch when he received that sudden attack.
"Kace! Don't do that! You surprised me!" Hope exclaimed when she watched Kace was laughing heartily. "What are you doing here?"
"Walk you home." Kace shrugged nonchalantly.
"Did you…" see what I was doing to Oliver? That was what Hope wanted to ask, but Kace had cut her sentences.
"Do you want to go on a date with me?" Kace asked.