459: FOURTEEN YEARS OLD (10)

FOURTEEN YEARS OLD (10)

Six boxes of pizza, a small case of soft drinks, and other snacks to go with a nice movie, but none of them could melt the icy cold atmosphere.  0

"What a nice movie." Kace commented. 

At least out of the five people inside the living room, there was one who really enjoyed this situation. Hope thought bitterly. 

During the entire movie, no one dared to even make a single sound. 

Rossie sat at the far most position from Kace, next to Rossie was Ian while Ethan sat near to Hope. The three of them were stuffed in the long sofa. 

While Hope was stuck with Kace on the second sofa.

"It is only you who's enjoying it." Hope sneered. She didn't know what kind of power that Kace possessed to be able to make all of her friends didn't even dare to complain a single word about this. 

"Why? You don't like it?" Kace raised his eyebrows at Hope and shifted his attention to the other three. "Do you want to watch another movie?"

"No, no…"

"No, thanks."

Ian and Ethan immediately waved their hands in panic. They would die of excessive pressure if Kace forced them to watch one more movie with him. 

Kace was very overbearing for them to handle. 

At this moment, Rossie tugged Ian's sleeve and whispered something to him. Once she was done whispering, Ian looked over at Kace and spoke with a trembling voice. 

"Actually, we have to go home…" Ian gulped hardly. "Our parents will be very worried if we didn't return soon."

If the situation was slightly different, Hope would have loved it if her friends were to visit her house. This would be the first time for her friends to come over. 

Thanks to Kace, but the ambience was nothing like what she had always imagined. 

"Alright, I will drive you home." Kace stood up and stretched his stiff muscles. "Let's go."

"What? No!" Ian and Ethan whisper- shouted simultaneously as they threw an SOS kind of look at Hope, begging for her grace to save their a** from this intimidating shifter. 

"Why? Do you want to turn down my generous offer?" Kace crossed his arms in front of his chest in intimidation.

"No, of course not." Ian replied in panic as he could feel his younger sister already shivering beside him. 

"Okay, get up then or your parents will be panicked, thinking I kidnapped their precious children." Kace picked the car keys from the table and whistled as he walked out of the house to get on the car. 

"Hope." Rossie sprung to her feet and approached her. "He is very scary."

Scary?

Hope had never felt that way about Kace. Even when he fought that devil in his beast form on their previous encounter, she was not afraid of him.

Because deep down in her heart, Hope knew that Kace would never hurt her, no matter what the situation was. 

Yet, Hope still consoled Rossie by patting her back. "Don't worry he will not hurt you."

"Hope, what is he? An Alpha?" Ethan asked worriedly. He was the coolest among the siblings, but Hope could still feel his nervousness. 

"I don't think he is an Alpha. We are same, rogues, like you." This statement from Hope also confirmed their suspicion that Hope was living with a shape shifter. 

"Impossible." The furrow between Ethan's brows deepened. "He was nothing like a rogue. We could feel his authoritative and dominant nature."

"Well, do you see any pack here?" Hope retorted. No pack, no Alpha. 

"But, why did he have that strong aura?" Ian half- whispered to Hope, his gaze kept darting to the front door occasionally, afraid Kace would rush into the house and strangle him for his comment. 

"I don't know." Hope shrugged her shoulders. How was she supposed to know when she felt nothing except the warmth from the tingling sensation that she felt every time he touched her?

Ian and Ethan looked at each other in confusion. 

"Hope, I don't think I can take a ride with him." Rossie looked at Hope with her teary eyes. The stress she felt so far was way too much and she couldn't handle it well. 

"It's alright, I will go with you." This was the best way to handle the situation for the meantime. 

"I really don't mind if I have to walk from here to our house." Ian shivered at the thought that the dangerous shifter would come to their house. "I don't feel comfortable with letting him know where we are living."

"Like what Kace said before." Hope glanced at the door. "He didn't take a rejection very well."

All of them knew that they didn't have a choice in this matter, because if Kace really wanted to know where they were living, it was as easy as moving his finger. 

The four of them walked out of the house and hopped into the car. It was obvious that Hope would take the front seat and received an incredulous gaze from Kace upon seeing her there.

"What are you doing here?" Kace frowned.

"Make sure you will not eat my friends." Hope huffed and even in that state, Kace found her very adorable as he pinched her rosy cheek.

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The car stopped in front of a small house with its front yard full of roses. It was a very beautiful house and the smell of the roses filled the air around them. 

Only now Hope understood why sometimes she would smell a faint rose scent from the siblings. 

Once the car stopped, Rossie immediately got off of the car and looked for the safety of her house. 

"Thank you." Ethan said rigidly as he climbed out of the car after his twin brother who didn't even bother to say a word as he rushed toward the house because he caught sight of his mother, tending to the roses. 

Hope could see why Ian was in such a hurry. It was in their instinct to feel if there was a greater predator around them and also to protect their family from it. 

But, what surprised Hope the most was, Kace turning off the car before opening his car door. "What are you doing!?"

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