420: TWO YEARS OLD

TWO YEARS OLD

"Ka… ce…"  2

A big man was sitting on the grass with a little girl, blinking her eyes and tilting her head as she listened to him. 

"Ka… ce…" Kace reiterated his name, moving his lips exaggeratedly as he tried to make the baby follow his lead, but Hope just stared at him blankly and frowned. "Kace. Say my name baby."

The big lycan was almost crying to teach his little mate to say his name. He had spent two hours just by doing this. 

"Don't be ridiculous, you idiot." Serefina's words were a mocking taunt at the Lycan's effort. "You should stop now."

"Why?" Kace whined in frustration. "She could say your name and Lana's, but why couldn't she say mine?"

"Because you just met her again and she is still confused about who you are." Serefina grumbled. 

The witch was sitting on a chair, on the terrace of the backyard of her house, where Kace was trying to teach the poor little girl to call his name. 

"Give it up. She will call you if she wants." Serefina added, drinking something from her tacky yellow glass. 

"But, why?" Kace howled childishly as he watched Hope walk away from him before raising her arms, asking to be carried when she saw Lana approaching them. 

To be ignored like this… It was so painful…

"I think she forgot about you." Lana picked Hope up and carried her as the little girl buried her face in the crook of the girl's neck.

Lana looked a little older than the last time Kace came to visit Hope, not only that, she would definitely grow into a beautiful woman one day. 

But of course the Lycan didn't realize it because his entire focus was on his little Hope. 

Even now, he was burning with jealousy when Lana could be so close to Hope and when the little girl actually walked toward her for protection, instead of him as it was very annoying to behold such a scene…

"How can she forget about me? I had bought all of those things so she could remember me…" Kace wailed and then he snapped his head toward Serefina, staring at her accusingly. "Did you use a spell on her? To forget about me?"

Serefina rolled her eyes upon that absurd accusation of his. "I don't have time for that." She said matter of factly. 

Lana threw a disdainful look at the witch. What a pathetic excuse she just spewed. Serefina had literally, absolutely neglected her responsibility of taking care of Hope. 

If Lana wasn't around to 'clean up after the witch', she couldn't imagine how the baby would have survived until now under that ignorant woman's care. 

"Baby… why are you forgetting meeee….?" Kace wailed in despair, he rose to his feet and trudged toward Hope, but his expression startled Hope and she buried her little face in the crook of Lana's shoulder. "Huhuhuhu… my baby forgot me…"

"Shut up Kace!" Serefina snapped, annoyed by the wailing sound that the big guy was producing. It didn't suit him at all!

Seeing the situation turn like this, Lana took a deep breath. She thought, she would be the one to act immaturely in this small group of weird people, yet, as it turned out, she ended up as the one who was mature enough to handle the situation. 

Especially, when the witch did nothing except yelling at the overgrown Lycan, who acted childishly upon the rejection of a two years old toddler.

"You can't startle her like that." Lana explained, trying to make the Lycan stop wailing and pouting, as he looked at her with jealousy. 

"So, what shoud I dooooo?" Kace stared at the back of Hope's head as she clutched onto Lana's neck for her dear life, just like a baby panda. 

He wanted to be in Lana position. 

"Let's get inside first." Lana led the way to go back inside their house with Kace in tow, following her eagerly. 

Meanwhile, before the three of them entered the house, Serefina shouted. "I will go out for a while and return tomorrow," She locked her eyes with Kace's as she added. "When I come back, I want you to leave this house."

Kace scoffed and let out a deep growl upon that harsh comment, "She forgot about me, maybe I should stay a little longer here." 

"Well, it's alright. But, when your dear friends come to visit, I hope you know what you should do." Serefina shrugged her shoulders nonchalantly. 

"I have distracted them to a far away region from this place." Kace retorted. "It will be fine even if I stay for one or two days."

He had tried to bring those chasers and hunters away so far from this place and yet, he just got a single day to be with Hope?!

Serefina wouldn't know how much Kace missed his baby girl!

However, when he finally came, his baby girl forgot about him! 

Ugh!

How ironic was that?

"Fine. If you really wanted to risk her life, I am good with that." Serefina's comment hit the right spot, as he couldn't find a single word to rebuke her. 

Grumpily, the Lycan walked inside and slammed the door shut. He didn't say anything as he followed Lana and Hope into the house. 

Lana led him into another room that was apparently decorated as a playroom for Hope. There were many toys there and most of them were the toys that Kace would send here occasionally. 

Hope took a doll that was as big as herself. It was a customized white wolf doll that Kace sent here eight months ago, so she would remember him. 

"That is her favorite." Lana explained.

That explanation made a certain lycan beam with happiness, washing away all the sorrows that he felt earlier.

Kace approached Hope carefully and sat down in front of her. "Do you like it?" His voice was very gentle and drew Hope's attention toward him.

She blinked and nodded her head, hugging her white wolf doll closer to her. 

"May I know what it is?" Kace caressed her soft black hair as the white pendant shone under the sunlight. 

Hope grinned and answered his question. "Wuulf."

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