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"You just ask me to drive to the north! But, you forget to mention where exactly we are heading now!" Kace grumbled.0

He looked at the baby who was sucking on her nursing bottle, drinking her milk peacefully without a care for the world as she played with the edge of her blanket while occasionally turning her head to look at Kace and gushed.

Ahhh… how could not the Lycan's heart melt at the sight?

"North… north…" Kace mumbled as he turned left and entered a gas station. "Change places with me, my turn to hold her."

Kace had been driving for more than fifteen hours now, he didn't sleep, didn't eat and wasn't able to hold baby Hope.

He didn't mind driving for longer spells, but the sight of her eyes that looked at him curiously from time to time, made Kace's heart squeal loudly to play with the baby.

Kace pulled over the car near a mini market after he refueled it, and then directly turned off the engine. He opened the passenger door and took over the baby from Serefina's hands carefully.

Hope cooed and extended her small arms to touch Kace's face while giving him a toothless smile.

"Hi little one…" Kace lowered his head to let Hope tug his hair happily. The baby seemed very happy to be able to do that.

And Kace couldn't help but smile as well. His smile was so bright that it seemed it could even put the sun above them to shame.

The sparks that erupted from skin to skin contact, made the baby giggle. Kace felt it too. So, this was how the sparks felt when your mate touched you…

A feeling that Kace had been waiting for centuries to have a taste.

He then bent his body and took the nursing bottle from Serefina.

"I need to go to the rest room." The witch grumbled as she left both of them.

Hope was a happy baby as she played with her nursing bottle and sucked on it, blinking her eyes curiously at her surroundings.

From these three days of observations, Kace could tell that Hope was easy to handle, as she would only cry if she was hungry or needed to be cleaned after she was done with her business. Most of the time, she would sleep or observe her surroundings silently.

Another thing that Kace understood was; she liked the spark that she felt when she touched Kace, thus she would always extend her little arms to touch his face.

Of course, the baby didn't know the concept of mate, she just enjoyed the tingling feeling, just like Kace.

The Lycan didn't have any weird thoughts about how this bond would work out, he just enjoyed every moment with baby Hope.

In fact, Kace felt blessed because he had a chance to watch her grow. A chance that didn't come to every Lycan as they would think to find their mates when they turned seventeen, most of them would start to look for their mate and found them around that age.

But it wasn't the case for the Donovan's brothers.

Before this, they were doomed to be mate- less for the rest of their eternity, yet the moon goddess lifted their curse and gave them a chance to feel this blissful feeling.

Kace couldn't understand why Jedrek wanted to get rid of this peaceful feeling and suffer the pain of losing his mate. He knew that his brother was still looking for his mate, so as to kill her and Maximus was the one who was going to carry out that order.

But, that wasn't his concern now, because for now, he needed to eat something as his stomach started grumbling embarrassingly.

With baby Hope in his arms and a blue backpack on his back, Kace left the car while whistling happily. He entered the mini market to buy something for him and Serefina.

Not many people were there around this time, some of them were enjoying a cup of coffee while reading newspaper at the back of this store. Old people's habbit.

Kace deftly grabbed four sandwiches and two sodas, some snacks and another baby formula bottle and some diapers for Hope. The necessities that Ariana prepared for her were almost finished and there was still a long way to go to their destination.

Well, the truth was; Kace didn't know where Serefina would bring them. But, as long as that proved to be a safe place for Hope, he didn't mind following any of the witch's crazy ideas.

"Do you want something baby?" Kace touched Hope's small nose as the baby let go of her nursing bottle and giggled.

After Kace was done taking all the snacks and food for their long journey ahead, he hummed happily while going to the cashier to pay for everything.

"She is so lovely…" the girl behind the cashier desk, who was checking all the items that Kace wanted to buy, squealed at the sight of Hope.

Hope's black eyes and hair contrasted with her fair skin, her pouted lips and chubby cheeks were the next things that made people adore her in an instant once they laid their eyes on her.

"What is her name?" The girl stopped what she was doing and extended her arms to caress Hope's soft cheeks.

However, the baby pouted and turned her head, snuggling closer into Kace's chest while hugging her bottle. Hope had never acted this way before.

"Oh, she is shy with strangers." The girl didn't look upset and continued to check the items in front of her, but her eyes would occasionally trace back to baby Hope. 

"I guess." Kace replied emotionlessly, holding Hope firmly against his chest.

"She is so cute and delicious…" The girl's eyes flickered with golden color as she glanced at the baby again after she finished placing everything in the bag.

The flicker of the golden color in the girl's eyes was the sign for Kace to take two steps back and feel super alerted at the situation. 

His body turned stiff as his eyes reclaimed the color of the night sky, as a loud growl rumbled in his chest before erupting from the back of his throat. 

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