430: EIGHT YEARS OLD

EIGHT YEARS OLD

"Hachi!"  2

The sound of that sneeze left Kace panicking even more. He hurriedly went back to Hope's bedroom while bringing a bowl of warm soup in his hand. 

"Baby…" Kace crouched down beside Hope's bed and touched her scorching hot forehead. "How do you feel?"

"My head... aching…" Hope's voice sounded very pitiful as a tear escaped her eyes. It wasn't because she was in so much pain that she was crying, but because of the heat from her fever which made her eyes feel like they were burning.

Kace wiped her tears, but her skin was very hot when he touched her. The feeling didn't sit well with him. 

Lana came inside the room a while later. "We can't go out in this kind of weather." She said regretfully. Her eyes flickered between Hope and Kace with the equal amount of anxiety. 

"D*mn!" Kace cursed out loud as he gritted his teeth. 

There was a snow storm outside and no cars could make it through in this kind of weather, where harsh wind was howling which made it freezing cold outside. It was simply too dangerous. 

"Where is Serefina!?" Kace snapped at Lana angrily. Not because he was angry at her, but rather because he couldn't keep his calm in this situation, knowing that only a few options were left for him while the witch was nowhere to be found at this critical juncture. 

"She left two days ago." Lana informed him. "I don't know where she is."

Serefina had left the apartment two days ago without saying anything like always and until now she had not yet returned. Usually, Serefina would come back after three days, if nota whole week. 

"Don't you have any medicine?" Kace rubbed his face harshly as he stared at Hope's face, which turned as red as a tomato.

When he called this morning to talk to Hope, Lana told him that she was sick and when Kace heard Hope cries over the phone, he couldn't think much before breaking into a run in his beast form in this bad weather because there wasn't any transportation means in operation at this moment. 

Hope stretched out her arms as her teary eyes looked at Kace, pleading.

Kace knew what she wanted and immediately pulled her up and hugged her little body. He sat down on her bed and leaned against the wall behind him with Hope burying her face in his chest after hugging his waist, just like a baby panda. 

Hope felt better this way, the tingling feeling that she felt every time she touched him, helped in soothing her aching joints. 

She nuzzled her head, looking for a comfortable position as Kace wrapped her in a blanket. 

"She need to eat before she could drink this medicine." Lana reminded him. "She has not yet eaten anything since this morning."

That explanation made another wave of frustration roll in Kace's throat as a growl vibrated in his chest. 

Hope whimpered when she heard that. 

"Baby, eat something okay?" Kace tried to persuade her, but she shook her head weakly. 

In this condition, everything that she ate felt terrible no matter how deliciously it was prepared. Hope had already tried to eat a few spoons of porridge, only to threw up right after she swallowed it. 

Kace felt his chest cave in just at the sight how pale Hope looked now. 

"How could she fall sick like this!?" Kace glared at Lana and she lowered her head, too afraid to look him straight in the eyes, as she could see his beast scampering at the edge of his mind. 

"I think… It's because…" Lana gulped hard. "I bring her outside to play yesterday and we came back quite late…"

His grip on the railing at the head of Hope's bed tightened as it left a dent there because he couldn't contain his anger. The hand that was still holding Hope shook. 

Kace sighed out a deep breath, if he let his anger consume him now, he would end up hurting his mate and that was the last thing he wished to happen. 

"How far is the nearest hospital?" Kace asked with his eyes closed, focusing solely on Hope's heartbeat, which thumped against his chest. 

"It's around three hours walk from here." Lana fidgeted when she realized what Kace would do. "The weather outside is very bad, you will not make it through."

And as if on cue, Hope started vomiting again. She vomited right on Kace's body, and tears started streaming down her pale face as she whimpered pitifully after that. 

"I am hurting…" Hope sobbed while Kace cleaned her mouth. The stress on his face was clear to see.

"I know baby, I know… we will bring you to the Hospital, alright?" He gave Hope to Lana, so she wouldn't dirty herself with the vomit on Kace's shirt. 

However, Hope extended her arms, trying to reach Kace. She didn't want to be separated from him and the helplessness in her eyes made Kace's heart hurt badly. 

Once Kace had changed his shirt and Lana had cleaned her up, he hugged the little girl tightly. "We will go to the hospital now."

Three hours by walking. Kace could make it in one and half hours or two. 

As a Lycan, his body temperature was unusually hotter than humans. That was why, Kace managed to run for miles in this kind of weather without getting frozen. 

Kace put a thick jacket on Hope and wrapped her in a blanket before he strapped her on his back and zipped the larger jacket around their body so Hope could be protected from the harsh wind outside.

All the warmness Hope feeling right now made her sweat profusely, yet once they were outside, the temperature would drop drastically compared to this room. 

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The raging snow storm started to calm when a huge man walked into the hospital lobby along with a girl behind him.

This made the other nurses and people there stare at them blankly. How did these two people manage to come to this hospital in this kind of situation?

"Where is the doctor!?" The man practically glared at everyone around, who were still in a daze.

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