408: SHOPPING!

SHOPPING!

"Oh, Selene! I came to help you, so don't you dare to treat me like I am your enemy!" Serefina grumbled in frustration. She glared viciously at Kace, but the Lycan didn't budge with his decision.1

"No need to call Selene! You don't even like her, do you?" Kace quipped sarcastically, grabbed a teether for Hope, so she wouldn't cry agitatedly upon hearing this endless argumentation.

If no one from them were willing to back down, this kind of conversation would last for as long as it could go. 

Unfortunately, most of these kinds of situations, would end with both of them choosing their own way, yet that wasn't the case in this situation. 

"That place is full of mages and other dark creatures!" Kace tried to make his point cross, yet Serefina with her stubbornness made everything more complicated. "What in the world that made you think that Northern Coven is the safest place!?"

"Because I was hiding there for centuries, you fool! You didn't listen to me, did you?!" Serefina ran her fingers to comb her hair agitatedly. "Yes, that place is full of mages, but that place is also protected with their powerful spell formations, so it will be hard for your brother and his people or that devil, who wanted to eat your baby mate, to find her! Can't you see? The least expected place is the safest one!"

Kace wanted to retort her statement, but something clicked in his mind as he realized that her point, actually, made sense. 

But, there was one more problem.

"She is a human." Kace brushed his cheek against Hope's and this gesture made the baby giggle. "Those wretched creatures will know about it soon."

"I have thought about that. No one will notice her as a human child as long as she doesn't come out of the house." Serefina glanced at Hope briefly before she turned around and packed all of their things, which were not much and most of them belonged to Hope. 

Kace furrowed his brows. "You can't keep her inside the house for the rest of her life!" He snapped, thinking how miserable it would be for his mate to be restricted from seeing the outside world. 

Serefina rolled her eyes dramatically when she heard Kace's concern. "Relax. We will just stay there until she turns five."

Kace put down baby Hope and made a bottle of milk for her, as this was the time for her to eat. "After that, where will you go?"

Serefina shrugged her shoulder. "I will think about that later, we have five years to decide another safe place for her." And then she added. "Moreover, we will not enter too deep into the northern coven. I choose to live in mystic river village."

"Mystic river village?" Kace reiterated. 

He remembered that place, it was a village under the mountain range which served as the border of the northern coven and the realm for humans. 

The last time Kace had been there, was around two hundred years ago. 

There were not many people living there and all of them kept up with their traditions. They have an old tradition of sacrificing humans to the god of the mountain. 

Kace wasn't sure, but two hundred years have passed, there must be some significant changes, right?

The thought of such a ritual bothered the Lycan. Though, that didn't annoy him like his former thought that Serefina would let his mate live inside the northern coven.

This one was more tolerable…

"That village is only two days away from here, therefore we have to buy a few necessities for her." Serefina nodded at Hope who was happily sucking onto her nursing bottle. Her bright dark eyes shone brilliantly. Even Serefina had to admit that the baby would be a rare beauty when she grew up. 

"Right! I want to buy lots of toys and cute clothes and dresses for her! Let's go shopping!" Kace's dampened mood turned better at the thought of buying those things for Hope.

Serefina just rolled her eyes when she watched how Kace seemed very excited. Sometimes, she wondered how this big determined Lycan could act childish all the time. 

Serefina knew him for long time to make such conclusion. 

However, the witch also knew Kace would turn more beastly once his bottom line was crossed. Typical of those who had Alpha blood running in their veins. 

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"Kace, she will not stay two months forever!" Serefina reminded the overwhelmed Lycan exasperatedly. 

Kace was near to buy the entire store for Hope, yet the baby just bit her fist or giggled and drooled without a care for the world. 

"But, they are so cute!" Kace gushed when he saw a pink dress with cartoon characters embroidered on it. "Do you want this Hope?"

Kace gave the dress to the baby and Hope stretched out her arms in an attempt to grab the dress. 

"See? She likes it!" Kace beamed and gave the dress to the sales person. 

For now, they were inside a mall in this city before they would drive to the northern part for two days straight, stopping only to sleep.

"She will act the same way even if you gave her a bottle of poison!" Serefina snapped at him angrily. They had been wasting their time for three hours just to buy clothes and toys for Hope. 

Probably, Kace wouldn't stop if Serefina didn't remind him again and again that they had to go immediately.

The Lycan was enjoying his time with his baby mate.

"No! That's enough!" Serefina snatched a cute legging for one year old baby and threw it back to the rack, then she dragged Kace out of the store. "Give me your card!" 

Serefina extended her hand to him. Those clothes were for Hope, thus it was only right if Kace paid for them.

Pouting, Kace gave the card to Serefina and talked to the baby. "Next time, when you grow older, we will go shopping together and buy more cute things for you, okay baby?"

Hope just tilted her little head while blinking her big, adorable eyes before gushing cutely.

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