453: FOURTEEN YEARS OLD (4)

FOURTEEN YEARS OLD (4)

Now Hope caught the three people's attention. She bit her lower lip as she reminded herself to be careful with what she should say.2

Hope just met with them and didn't really know them very well, not to mention this was her first day, though Ian and his siblings looked reliable, but she didn't want to upset Serefina further by telling something about her family to some outsiders. 

"I was living with them since I was a baby. I don't know why." Hope answered, that wasn't a lie. 

"Since a baby?" Ian frowned. "That is strange. It is not common for a shifter to take care of a human's child…" they tend to hate them, actually. But, Ian didn't voice out his last thought. 

"Really?" This time, it was Hope who was surprised, but if she thought about this again, Serefina would always be very hostile every time she had to have a conversation with her teacher whenever she picked her up from school. 

But, Lana and Kace didn't seem like that…

"Have they ever mistreated you?" Ian asked again. His eyes slanted as if he could smell a lie in Hope's answer. 

"No." Hope shook her head. "They always treat me very well." Except for the weird restrictions to not go out by herself after the sun was set, regarding which Hope could understand the reason. In short, they always treated her very well. 

Especially Kace, he would literally grant every one of Hope's wishes. 

"Maybe her family is of rogue origin." Rossie blinked her eyes at Hope, finishing her burrito and wiping her mouth. 

"Rogue? What is that?" Hope never heard that term and most likely it wasn't a common term that humans would use. 

"You don't know what is rogue?" Ethan furrowed his brows at Hope, who was at a loss.

"This is interesting." Ian leaned over and scrutinized Hope's face as he tried to find an answer on her face, which was a stupid thought. "You are not a shifter but you live with them and you don't seem to know about a shifter's life."

"So, she is a human?" Rossie was still bothered by the fact that Hope was a human, yet they were talking about their world with her. "Is it okay that we are talking about this with her?"

"Yes, she is a human." Ian nodded, but his eyes were still locked with Hope's. "But, she is not an ordinary human, I think."

Hope didn't understand what Ian was talking about. "What do you mean?"

"Tell me." Ian moved closer and Ethan threw an empty bottle toward him, that he caught before it could hit his head without even looking at it. "Do you have super power ability?"

"Like what?" Hope had never had a conversation like this and she was more than excited to know more about the things that Kace and Serefina kept holding back from telling her. Kace would always say; he would let her know when she was older.

Well, she was older now, he himself said so the last time they met.

"Like super strength, super speed, laser vision, invisibility or something?" Ian was very eager to know more about this. 

From the corner of Hope's eyes she could see, even Ethan and Rossie were listening. 

"Of course not. I don't have that kind of power." Hope laughed. "There are people who have powers like that?" She asked incredulously. 

"I have never heard." Ian shrugged his shoulders. 

"But, witches can absolutely do those kinds of thing." Rossie's hazel eyes shined, intrigued with the topics they were discussing. 

"Some, yes. But, not all." Ethan replied.

"But, that is still cool." Rossie was stubborn with her opinion and Ethan didn't dissent her again. 

Well, that's kind of cool. Hope agreed as she remembered how she used to admire Serefina's magical power before she used it to erase her friends' memories.

Even now, Hope was still upset at her, but Serefina didn't seem to mind or even bother to apologize at all. 

"You have not answered my question." Hope reminded them. "What is a rogue?"

It was Ian and Ethan who explained it to Hope what the term 'rogue' actually meant in their world.

Basically, rogue was a lone wolf that didn't join any pack, just like their family, and this piece of information surprised Hope. 

She did know that werewolves and Lycanthropes formed their own packs and the biggest pack in red river city was Torak Donovan's pack, which ruled all the packs across the nation. 

Hope only knew about this after that incident in Sebastian's house. Kace told her a little bit about this and to her surprise, Torak Donovan was Kace's second brother that he had not met for years now. 

Ethan also explained to Hope about hierarchy in werewolves and Lycan's world, and about the roles of Alpha, Beta and Gamma.

This information was mind blowing for Hope. She knew there were packs, but would have never thought that it was very complicated with many roles in there.

"So, why all of you chose to be a rogue?" Hope was curious, she was thirsty for more knowledge on this. 

Ethan and Ian stared at each other before Ian spoke callously. "Family problems."

"Oh." Hope couldn't pursue the reason if their answer was that. 

Apparently, most of the rogues were not very welcomed when they trespassed a formal pack's territory without permission, thus they chose to live here because no one owned this land. 

"Because, from what I heard, there is a portal to another realm behind the forest." Ian's voice was barely a whisper. 

"What portal?" Hope couldn't help, but mimick his gesture as she talked secretively. 

"Another world, another realm. The world of magic." Ian gave Hope a suggestive grin.

"Stop trying to corrupt her in to breaking the law." Ethan growled, the same growl that Kace would let out every time he was talking to Serefina and they had different opinions, though Kace's was more powerful. 

"What law? We are not allowed to enter the forest?" Hope just arrived here a week ago and literally didn't took a step out of the house until now.

"There is this law here…" Ian ignored Ethan's glare and continued. 

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