444: THIRTEEN YEARS OLD (8)

THIRTEEN YEARS OLD (8)

"Why are you with that Donovan?" Aidan stopped three steps away from Hope, leaning his body against the wall next to him, not even feeling bothered when he saw Hope grabbing the handle of the door, ready to flee. "You know who he is?"2

Hope knew Kace's last name was Donovan, but… "That was the same question that I want to ask him too, if you don't mind letting me live a little bit longer." Hope answered offhandedly. She reached into her pocket and swept her finger across her phone screen which she assumed would answer the call from whoever it was. 

"Hmm." Aidan rubbed his chin. "So, you don't know?" His voice was a little bit off as he contemplated. "Don't you think that you are too ignorant, little girl?" 

Hope scoffed. She had been living with Serefina for as long as she could remember, of course there were one or two traits of that witch that got rubbed onto her personality. Especially, her arrogant nature when it came to threats. 

"If you know him very well, then you should have known he would come to this house, right to the second corridor, next to the gym." Hope rumbled about her location, so whoever on the caller could hear that, moreover if that was really Kace. 

"Are you trying to give your location away?" Aidan's golden eyes traced her body and stopped at her pocket, where Hope's phone was. 

Hope didn't say anything, but her silence broke in the next second when she felt something explode in her pocket. 

Hope dropped to the floor, clutching her hips where she could feel her phone had been shattered and the sharp shards pierced her jeans and skin. Her breath hitched with the pain that came after that. 

She bit her bottom lip to stop herself from crying. She could feel the area on her hips getting wet. Blood?

Hope gritted her teeth as she shot a menacing glare at Aidan or whatever he was at this moment. 

The pain was so real! She had never felt this kind of pain before. No. Kace and Lana would make sure she would never be in any kind of pain before!

There was a time when she fell from the stairs and Kace had wrecked some havoc just to get her to the hospital, though it was still bearable. He scolded Lana for so long because of that. 

Aidan sniffed the air with eyes closed, relishing the scent of Hope's blood that almost felt like a drug for him and this made Hope feel disgusted just to see him. 

"It is so annoying to be in this body…" Aidan murmured as he ambled toward Hope, who was still crouching on the floor, clutching her bleeding hips. 

Hope tried to move away from Aidan, but the pain prevented her from doing so.

"I wonder, what you are?" Aidan dropped to his knees and stared at Hope dead in the eyes. The helpless sight of her pulled a harmless smile on his lips. "I have never come across a scent like this until a few years ago…"

Gluttony still remembered clearly that child's scent even now, it would be great if she had that girl and this one… 

Aidan gripped Hope's chin as the girl glared at him menacingly and this only made him chuckle. "Such a brave girl you are…"

Aidan's golden eyes traced down Hope's fingers where her blood soaked through the fabric of her pants. 

He stretched out his hand to touch the liquid, but a deep frown marred his face when he looked at his forefinger again. The tip of it which made contact with Hope's blood was badly charred.

"What is this?" Aidan's grip on Hope's chin loosened as he stared at his finger. "How could this happen?"

Aidan was puzzled, but Hope was at a loss as well. Because of their close proximity, she could see what effect her blood had on him, yet her mind worked faster to help herself from this situation. 

Looking at the burn on Aidan's finger, she knew what she had to do. 

Hope raised her bloodied hand and pushed Aidan away from her with that very hand, smearing her blood on his face. 

Gluttony didn't expect this move from Hope, thus this action caught her out of guard as she stumbled backward while covering her face. It burned badly. 

A shrill scream followed afterward, echoing in that empty corridor. Hope watched how Aidan rolled on the floor, clutching his face as he screamed in pain. 

Even with all this commotion, no one came to look at what was happening. Hope wondered what had happened to the rest of her friends.

Yet, she couldn't stay there any longer and wait for Aidan to recover, or became too upset to even engage in a conversation like before.

Thus, ignoring the searing pain that shot through her hips, Hope opened the door beside her and pushed herself out of that house.

She closed the door and used it as her support to stand up. The pain made her groan and curse under her breath. 

Now, there was no way for her to make any contact with Kace since whatever creature that possessed Aidan had destroyed it. 

She had to find another way, but first, she had to find the main gate so she could escape from this house. It would take an enormous effort with her bleeding hips.

Ignoring the pain, Hope drug herself along the side yard. She could still hear Aidan's screams before it became very quite.

The power was not yet fixed. Hence, the only light that helped Hope to see was the pale moonlight.

Instead of being in the middle of the city, Hope felt like she was in middle of nowhere, everything was very dark and quiet. 

Hope didn't know how long she had walked, but the moment her eyes caught sight of a white wolf, she could feel her tensed body relax almost immediately.

However, the white wolf snarled and dashed toward her with his sharp fangs on full display. 

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