484: WINGS

WINGS

"Now, tell me why didn't you call me when you could call Lana?" Hope asked in a stern voice. The fact that Kace was able to call Lana but didn't want to talk to her, had been bothering Hope to say the least.0

"Because I fought someone who can read minds and I don't want that creature to have a chance to know about you further." Kace caressed her cheeks, "Since you are always inside my mind, calling you would only make me think about you a lot. You are quite a distraction, you know?"

Kace then leaned over to kiss her temple while whispering against her skin. "A beautiful distraction."

Hope felt giddy and wanted to squeal when she heard Kace's words, but she didn't do that and embarrassed herself by acting like a silly teenager, well, although she was indeed a silly teenager from a certain point.

"It's already late, why don't you go to sleep?" Kace whispered again, sounding sweet and gentle.

However, Hope immediately snapped awake from her bubble of daydream as she caught the underlying meaning of Kace's suggestion.

"Are you trying to distract me?" Hope narrowed her eyes as she slapped Kace's hand away from her. "You want to avoid the next question, don't you?"

Kace laughed out loud again when Hope pushed him away from her. "How can you see right through me?"

"Seriously Kace." Hope crossed her arms, annoyed by him. "Did you kill that creature?" Hope didn't give Kace the opportunity to change the topic again.

"No, I hurt him, but I didn't kill him." Kace admitted. He just… couldn't bring himself to kill that creature. Something held him back from giving into his animalistic side. The same thing also happened when he fought Maximus which caused this great wound on his back.

Not only that, Kace also started feeling his beast side gradually becoming weak because of the constant oppression that Kace gave to himself.

"You didn't?" Hope tilted her head when she heard that, "Was that a good idea to leave your enemy alive out there?"

Kace gave a small kiss on her forehead before he stood up. "You sound more and more like Serefina." After saying that, Kace walked toward the kitchen. "I am hungry, I'm going to make noodles, do you want some?" He shouted from the kitchen.

Hope jumped down from the sofa and trotted toward the kitchen as well. "No, but I still have so many questions for you."

"Relax, I will answer all of them, but I still need to eat. I can't concentrate when I am hungry." Kace winked at Hope, who was sitting on the bar stool now.

"So, this creature had prevented you from calling me because you thought by being in contact with me, you wouldn't be able to stop thinking about me?" Hope surmised. "It doesn't sound convincing. How can you prevent yourself from thinking about something?"

Kace boiled water and started to make his own noodles. "I did think about you, but as I cut all the contact with you and focused on the matter at hand, that thought was less prominent in my mind."

Hope propped her head with her hands on the kitchen island as she contemplated, thinking about Kace's explanation.

"Did that help? Doesn't that mean that thought is still in your head?" Hope watched Kace move swiftly from one side to another as he cooked his supper.

"Well, he was not that powerful to dig deeper into my mind." Kace shrugged. "Thankfully."

"Okay." For the meantime, Hope would go along with this explanation. "What about the two people that we met in the theatre, you seemed to know that annoying woman pretty well." Hope's voice was laced with accusation.

"Both of them are spell- casters from northern coven and apparently, there is another gathering there that required them to come to this village." Kace tried his noodles and nodded in satisfaction at the tastes in his mouth before he brought the noodles to the kitchen island and sat across from Hope.

"Then what were you talking about earlier? About 'this thing' and 'that thing'." Hope took another fork and ate the noodles, though she said she didn't want to eat earlier.

"Your blood." Kace pushed the bowl forward, so that it would be in the middle and they could eat together. "When you were sick, I took you to a hospital and they got your blood there."

"Was that when I was eight years old?" Hope remembered the last time she was sick and needed to be admitted in the hospital. It was snowing hard at that time.

"Yes." Kace nodded as he separated the yolk from the egg white, because she didn't like it.

"Is there a problem with my blood?" Hope ate the egg white while Kace ate the yolk.

Afterward, Kace ended up explaining everything to Hope about the guardian angels and how her blood could be used for something evil, not only that, Hope also learned that her spirit power could be sapped.

If that happened, she would end up like an empty shell without soul.

Hope frowned when she heard Kace's explanation as she ate all the noodles and Kace could only sigh helplessly. Didn't she say, she didn't want to eat?

"That was my mistake for not being careful enough. I didn't think clearly when we were in the hospital." Kace admitted. "A few things had happened in the supernatural realm and Serefina guessed; it has something to do with the blood that they took from you."

"Bad things?" Hope put down the bowl and looked at Kace worriedly.

"Bad things." Kace took the bowl and placed it in the sink.

"So, it means you, Serefina and Lana have been trying to track down the blood?" Hope asked curiously.

"That is only one of the missions." Kace poured a glass of water and gave it to Hope as he sat down again.

"I just realized the reason why the devil woman back then was hurt because of my blood." Hope drawled. "As an angel, shouldn't I have wings?"

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