401: SLOWLY... SLOWLY...

SLOWLY... SLOWLY...

Kace sensed a scent, an intoxicating scent that drove his beast crazy. He did not even realize when he started to growl which scared Arabella, who was sitting in front of him.0

"Kace, are you okay?" Ariana touched Kace's upper arm as she looked at him worriedly. "What happened?"

Ariana could see Kace's ocean blue eyes had turned dark, indicating that his beast was trying to surface and take over.

"I am sorry." Kace shook his head, trying to push back his agitated beast, though his eyes still stayed the color of the night. "I feel weird."

Ariana squinted her eyes, but before she could ask any further, she saw Kace stand up abruptly before walking out of the room in the next moment.

Hugging the little Arabella in her arms, she followed Kace and his mate, who had followed the agitated lycan, out of the dining room as well.

On the other hand, Kace was unsure why was he feeling this agitated. No. It was his beast. The beast in him became restless because of this scent.

It smelled like fresh morning scent, pure and crisp. Kace felt a surge of happiness just by smelling it and he craved more of it.

At this moment, his feet worked faster than his brain could process anything. While his mind was still reeling over the scent and wondering what the source of this intoxicating smell could be, his feet had already brought him toward it.

It took less than three seconds when Kace finally noticed Serefina's face over Alec's shoulder. He halted his steps and heard the witch greeting him casually.

"Hi Kace." Serefina greeted him.

'Hi?' Kace couldn't believe what he just heard.

Serefina had just left him on his own for God knows how long and now she was standing right in front of the door way with that sickly smile on her red lips?

She almost drove him crazy because of the long- wait, without news or anything and now all she could say was a simple 'hi?' As though they just parted ways yesterday?

"Don't 'hi' me!" Kace growled, but his eyes caught sight of a cloth bundle that Serefina was cradling in her arms.

Kace was certain that the source of this scent that was driving his beast crazy was coming from that. Even though he couldn't see what it was, he still knew this much. His beast realized that it was the actual source.

"Well." Serefina shrugged, she noticed the change in Kace's expression and the way his eyes couldn't leave the 'thing' in her arms alone. She was right this time. "Then, tell me. Is it her?"

It was like a slow motion scene in a movie, when Serefina showed him a sleeping baby in her arms.

Kace felt his feet rooted to the ground as he felt his whole universe becoming centered on one thing, the only thing that mattered to him. Even his own life seemed in significant compared to her.

"What is it? What do you mean by 'is it her?'" Alec's voice was like a whisper from a faraway place which reached Kace's ears and brought him back to the reality as he had been staring at the sleeping baby for eternity.

And then, came a squalling sound from behind Kace's back. It was Arabella who was being carried by her mother.

Ariana's expression then morphed into one of understanding after noticing this situation.

"Is it your mate? The baby is your mate?!" Ariana voiced it out in a brief explanation. The Luna knew it too well from the way Kace stared at the baby in Serefina's arms.

"No way…" on the other hand, Alec breathed out in disbelief. "…she is just a baby…"

Yes, that was what exactly in Kace's mind too. She is a baby! How old is she? A month? Two months? What is this? Another joke from the moon goddess?

Wait, but that didn't matter, right?

Kace ignored the gasping sounds from Alec and Ariana as he walked, very slowly, toward Serefina. Toward the baby in her arms.

Upon closer inspection, Kace didn't doubt it again, the feeling was unreal and this was as if the long wait that he had been enduring all this time was worth it.

Everything was worth it when Kace watched her serene sleeping face.

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"Don't you want to carry her?" Serefina grumbled as she shoved the baby toward Kace's sturdy chest. As if electrocuted, Kace backed away almost immediately.

"Don't do that! You will hurt her!" Kace growled, trying to keep his voice low to not wake the baby up.

"My arms are hurting! I have been carrying her for two hours now!" Serefina protested. "You don't want to carry her and you don't allow me to put her down! Do you think my arms were made of steel!?" She was agitated by the way Kace was acting.

"SSTTT!SSSTT!" Kace put his forefinger in front of his lips to shut the witch. "You will wake her up!" The Lycan hissed out of frustration.

How could he hold something so fragile like a small baby? The thought of hurting her, almost drove him crazy.

The panic flashed on Kace's face when he watched how the baby's soft eyebrow scrunched slightly as if she was going to wake up was a sight to behold.

"Uncle Kace!" Arabella called for him, but Kace put his finger on his lips again.

"Sst! The baby is sleeping." Kace said in a voice that was barely a whisper.

"Kace, you are very tensed…" Ariana felt a headache coming when she watched Kace's hyper reaction over such a small thing. He would end up with high blood pressure if this continued.

Swiftly, Ariana gave her daughter to her mate and took the baby in Serefina's arms before cradling her, and the witch released a sigh of relief.

"Slowly… slowly…" Kace was panicking yet again.

"You. Sit down!" Ariana commanded the Donovan, one of the most feared Lycans, like he was just a little puppy.

With his mate in Ariana's arms, Kace did what he was told, yet his eyes were still glued to his mate.

"Stretch out your arms." Ariana said again.

"No! I am not doing it!" Kace knew what Ariana was going to do, but she shoved the baby toward him regardless, out of reflex, of course Kace would hold her. "Sh*t Ariana! Don't do that!" He cursed as huge beads of sweat started to form on his forehead.

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