Chapter 528 - NO WAY!

"Kace?" Hope was confused with the stare that Kace gave to her. "What happened?"

"I can't smell you…" he said in hesitation. This fact bothered him.

"Oh," Hope realized what was bothering him. "This probably because of this cloak." She pointed the purple cloak that she was wearing.

"Where did you get this?" Only then Kace looked around towards the people who had come with Hope. There was no way this girl could enter this realm alone.

And when Kace's eyes fell on the woman witch, he sighed deeply, as if there was a huge burden that was thrown at his face. "You…"

"Yes, me…" Lidya nodded her head slightly, but her eyes shone defiantly. "Serefina's order."

"I knew it," Kace said grimly, "If it was not for her, you definitely wouldn't come. But…" his voice became stern. "What the hell are you doing?! Why did you bring her here!?"

Just like Serefina, Lidya also had gotten used with Kace's erratic temper whenever he faced some absurdity.

"She missed you and you missed her, don't you think you should thank me, for reuniting both of you?" Lidya twirled her hair between her fingers. "I didn't force her, she wanted to come."

Kace shifted his attention towards Hope and glared at her.

"She came to my school to meet me and gave me an offer to come to meet you, of course I'd go." Hope hugged Kace.

Hope couldn't believe what Lidya had just said, she literally put the blame on her and made it sounded like she was the one who proposed this idea.

It was true that Kace wouldn't scold her whatsoever like he'd do to the other people there, but Hope still didn't want to be in his bad side at all and get scolded even for just a little, especially after two weeks they didn't see each other.

"She came to my school to meet me and gave me an offer to come to meet you, of course I'd go." Hope hugged Kace tightly, she stared at Kace with her puppy eyes, pouting her lips and Kace was tongue-tied. "I won't be here if she didn't come to me firsthand with that offer."

On the other hand, Lidya was surprised by the way Hope switched her words, but then she smirked, as expected of someone who was raised by Serefina. This girl was quick-witted.

Seeing Hope was hugging him like this, Kace gritted his teeth. He was mad, but couldn't say a word to her, thus he turned his head bellow at the twins.

"Why didn't you stop her!!?" He roared at them.

The poor siblings moved away upon hearing the harsh tone in Kace's voice, "We tried!" Ian whimpered, "Do you think it's easy to stop her?"

Well, that's true, even Kace couldn't do much when he had to face the girl directly.

"Aren't you happy to see me?" Hope asked sullenly, placing her hands on Kace's face, so they could talk eye to eye.

Kace's hard expression softened. "Of course I am happy to see you…" he said immediately, didn't want to aggravate her further.

"Good. That's all I need to know." Hope nodded on her own words.

"Hope… I don't mean to say that I'm not happy to see you, but the situation is different. It's not safe for you to be here." Kace tried to persuade her.

"If I'm not mistaken, you always say that you will protect me. Has it changed now?" Hope let go of Kace and crossed her arms.

"Of course not," Kace replied without hesitation.

"Good, then we don't have any problem anymore here," Hope smiled sweetly as she walked past him, "Now, can we come inside?"

"Hope…" Kace felt helpless. He missed her, indeed, and wanted to be near her. However, the situation now was different.

"Kace." Hope turned around and glared at him. "You were so close on breaking your own promise again." she said menacingly.

With that one sentence, Kace became speechless.

"Alright, let's go inside. It is scary out here." Ian shivered when he watched Lidya put out the flame on the torches.

The three teenagers went inside the shop happily, just like when Hansel and Gretel found a house made of cakes and candies. The three of them were very excited to see what kind of person a candlemaiden was.

"What were you thinking inside your head when you decided to bring her here?" when it was only Kace and Lidya alone, both of them strolled inside the shop with slow steps. "I'm absolutely sure, Serefina didn't ask you to do this."

Even with Serefina's absence at the moment, that requiring her to go to Torak's place, to take care of his mate. Kace knew for sure Serefina wouldn't risk to expose Hope like this. Even she herself never wish to ever be there again and had been trying to avoid entering this realm as much as possible.

"No she did not," Lidya admitted.

"So, why did you…"

"I improvised." She winked at him and rushed toward the house, leaving Kace behind. Of course Lidya wouldn't say anything about the deal between her and Hope

"Damn. I hate witches," Kace grumbled.

Kace was happy beyond words when he saw Hope was there, but the fact she was here to accompany him to meet the priestess, didn't feel like the right thing for him. He didn't want his mate got involved in this mess ahead of them.

From inside the house, Kace could hear Hope's squeal when she called out for Lana. He could imagine Lana was being squeezed by that girl and this brought a smile on his lips.

Actually, that wasn't because Kace didn't realize it, he knew that Hope was slightly jealous towards Lana, yet she seemed always forgot about her feelings from time to time. Only when she witnessed Kace and Lana interacted with each other then she would throw them a glare, otherwise, she always thought of Lana as her older sister.

It was cute to say anyway to see how Hope could get jealous, yet Kace wouldn't provoke it intentionally. He didn't want his mate to feel insecure.