437: THIRTEEN YEARS OLD

THIRTEEN YEARS OLD

"What do you mean by she is not at home?!" Kace was infuriated by the phone call that came from Lana. She just told him that Hope was not in the school when she went to pick her up like usual and her phone couldn't be reached.  1

His grip on the glass tightened before it shattered into a thousand pieces when Kace ended the phone call with Lana.

The man next to him raised his eyebrows questioningly, yet he didn't seem surprised by the sudden outburst or with the way the wound on Kace's hand healed faster than a normal human.

The moment he asked about what was happening, the skin on Kace's palm had mended together, leaving only traces of blood. 

"My girl is not home." Kace answered that man's question, grumbling as he took his jacket and hastily went out of the bar. 

"Is he okay to go out like that? He just broke a glass." A woman with seductive smile asked Leon. Apparently, she didn't manage to see how the wound on Kace's palm had healed even before he walked out of that place. She was clueless about that man's healing ability.

"He will be fine." Leon glanced at the exit door that Kace had just taken, but his figure was long gone. "Someone will be definitely in trouble, but that's not him."

The woman twirled her curly brown hair as she walked toward Leon and sat on the barstool where Kace was sitting a while ago. 

"Why don't you tell me about your friend? He is hot." She winked at Leon, yet the man only chuckled and shook his head.

"You better forget about him," he advised. "You can't handle him."

The woman raised her eyebrows as her eyes shone brightly. "I like that kind of man."

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Kace drove his car like a madman, receiving many curses along the way to Hope's school. 

This girl was becoming more and more stubborn by each day. Last time Kace met her, she was adamant ongoing to a camp with her friends in a pine forest.

The problem was, that pine forest was near Raven village, which was the location of Torak's pack house. Sure enough, no matter how many kisses that Hope gave to him or how many times she fluttered her long lashes with her pleading eyes, Kace would never allow her to join those stupid camp activities. 

Hope was very upset since that.

Kace could understand that she was a teenager and needed to be socializing with her peers or hang out with her friends occasionally.

However, their condition right now wouldn't allow her to do that, especially when she was not aware of the dangers that were lurking around her. 

Serefina had told Kace to tell her about what was happening with their world, but Kace always turned her down. Reasoning that Hope was only thirteen and she needed more time to enjoy her normal life before they boomed her with this prophecy and all. 

Yet, the normal life that Kace meant to give to her was a very strict life where she was not allowed to go to certain places without him or Lana. 

Unfortunately that wasn't the life that Hope wanted and she started acting rebellious. 

"Where is she?!" Kace asked the moment he got out of the car and approached Lana, who had been waiting for him in front of the school gates. "Any news from her?"

Kace tried to call Hope's number simultaneously while he asked that, but she didn't pick up her phone. The lycan let out a frustrated growl as he shoved his phone back into his pocket. 

"I have asked around and some of Hope's friends said that the last time they saw her, she was with Alyssa and Rena, but they didn't know where they were going." Lana reported it to Kace and he cursed out loud.

Alyssa and Rena were Hope's best friends. They were quite close from what Hope always told him in her stories about her school. 

"Have you asked for their numbers?" Kace's eyes flickered to black and this made Lana feel nervous. Black eyes on a Lycan wasn't a good sign, it meant they were really pissed now.

"Yes, yes…" Lana nodded immediately, but her expression didn't turn any better. "But I couldn't reach their numbers either."

"D*mnt it!" Kace was livid. His hands were shaking uncontrollably, fighting the urge to turn into his beast. 

Kace closed his eyes and tried to control himself as he raised his nose, sniffing the air around him and searching for his mate's scent.

Lana probably couldn't do it, because being a werewolf, her senses were not as advanced as Kace's because he was a lycan. 

Adding that to the fact, he had the alpha blood running through his system and Hope was his mate, of course Kace could pick even the faintest scent of hers.

Kace growled as he rushed into the school building, crossing the vast yard in such speed that Lana had to overwork her legs just to catch up with his pace. 

At this hour, many students had already returned home while some of them were inside the class for additional lessons. 

Thus, no one witnessed this abnormality with the two people there. 

Kace stopped when he reached the school backyard. Hope's scent stopped there. It seemed she got in a car along with her two other friends.

However, the thing that bothered Kace the most was; he picked a few more strange scents that had vanished along with his mate's.

It wasn't only Hope and her other two friends, there were other people with them as well. 

"Shift!" Kace growled before he leapt forward and his body shifted into his Lycan's form, as smooth as he walked.

The majestic white Lycan appeared before Lana's eyes and she didn't need to think further when she followed Kace's lead and shifted into her brown wolf.

Kace gave the control to his beast to track down his mate, as it would be easier to depend on it. 

It would take miles of running before they could find her. 

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