The Love of a Lycan Chapter 456 – FOURTEEN YEARS OLD (7)

“Can I ask you about something?” Hope was very careful with what she wanted to say next, she fidgeted on her seat and her appetite disappeared. 

Kace could sense her nervousness and sat down beside her. It was so rare to see Hope was being restless around him when she wanted to ask something. 

“What is it?” Kace leaned over, too close for Hope, which made her leaned back. 

“I want to know what the meaning of…” Hope didn’t know why all of sudden it became very hard to talk with Kace. She had never felt this way before.

“Of?” Kace prodded, he frowned, became more curious about what Hope wanted to tell him since she had never acted this way before. 

“Hmm…” Hope lowered her head.

“Hm?” Kace leaned over even more to see her expression, which was hid behind the curtain of her long black hair. “What? You make me nervous.” 

If Hope kept acting like this, Kace’s imagination would turn wild and he would start to imagine the worst. 

“What is… ‘mate’?” Hope raised her head only to see Kace’s face was only a few centimeter away from her. This made her heartbeat accelerated. 

On the other hand, Kace was caught out of guard by Hope’s question. Why all of sudden she asked this kind of thing? Or, more important thing was; from whom she knew about this?

Kace was sure, Lana would never mention something like this, let alone Serefina. The witch would always have better thing to do other than talking about ‘mate’ and everything entail. 

Kace’s expression turned from curious to be more curious. “From whom you heard about this little one?” 

“I am not little one.” Hope mumbled under her breath. She disliked it when Kace always thought of her as a small child. 

“Alright,” Kace didn’t lose his serious expression. “From whom you heard about this Hope?” 

“I…” Hope forgot to find an excuse for this. “I… Lana told me…” that was the best thing that she could think in this moment.

But, of course it was unbelievable for Kace as he knew his little mate too well, after all he had taken care of her poop and pee since she was only a baby. 

“Hope, you know that I know you are lying, right?” Kace was surprised that Hope started to lie to him, but to think about it again, she was a teenager now. 

Hope was starting to have her own secret. 

“You do not answer my question.” Hope tried to cover her nervousness by acting bold, yet Kace could see it through her poor act.

“You don’t answer my question either.” Kace retorted.

“But, I asked you first.” Hope didn’t want to back down. Since she had asked about it, then she had to find the answer. 

Unexpectedly, Kace answered it. “‘Mate’ is a soulmate for my kind. Someone who destined to be with you for the rest of your eternity.” 

“Huh?” this time, it was Hope who was surprised by Kace’s bluntness. “Like girlfriend and boyfriend? Husband and wife?” those were the closest example that Hope could imagine. 

The sound of guttural laugh echoed through the dining room, as Kace’s chest raise and fall rapidly. He had never thought about the mate bond in that way. 

Whether it was boyfriend and girlfriend or husband and wife, once you found your mate, you would bound together for the rest of your life, thus those tittles meant nothing for their kind. 

“Why are you laughing?” Hope huffed, irritated because Kace found her statement was amusing. Did she say something wrong? Why he was laughing heartily?

“Well, you can say that.” Kace grinned. 

“But, that didn’t answer my question, why are you laughing?” Hope still disliked the fact that she was being laughed. “There is something funny about my statement?”

“No.” Kace shook his head. “Of course not. However…”

“However?” at this point, Hope was very curious about their world, this was the first time she was talking about this kind of topic, though before Kace and Lana had explained a few things about their world, but it was only something on the surface. 

“Our kind values our mate highly.” Kace leaned back against his seat. “Even those terms sound inappropriate.”

“What do you mean?” Hope blinked her eyes, trying to discern the information. 

“When human said they would die for their partner, most of them would say it figuratively, while in our case we will do it, literally.” Kace looked at Hope with a spark in those beautiful blue eyes. “Living our life without a mate is a boring kind of life.” Kace added.

By the meaning of ‘boring’ it was an understatement of what kind of life that Kace had been through before he found Hope. 

“Wow…” Hope drawled. “That sounds… romantic.”

Kace laughed once again. “I don’t know if you find dying is romantic.”

“So…” Hope cleared her throat. This was the question that made her more nervous than before. “…did you find your mate?”

“I did.” Kace nodded affirmatively. 

Hope scratched the back of her head and played with her hair absentmindedly. Even though Kace knew what Hope would ask next, he didn’t say anything as he wanted her to say it. 

“Lana?” the moment that name left her lips, she knew very sure it was only her finding an excuse to attest her suspicion. 

Kace gave her a smile, the one that very warm and not like his goofy smile, which he always showed her all this time. “Hope, if you want to talk about this, I will assume you already know who the person is.”

Hope gulped hard as she averted his gaze. “I don’t know,” she mumbled. Why all of sudden the atmosphere turned very heavy? She had never felt this way every time she talked with Kace before.

“It is you.” Kace said it in matter of fact. “You are my mate.”

“Huh?” despite the fact her guess turned out right, but Hope was still surprised that Kace admitted it easily.