473: NO!

NO!

"Hope, right?" Kace stopped in front of Oliver's table.

With his presence, all the conversations at that long table, immediately died down as their heads turned to look at the new P.E teacher.

Hope didn't know if Kace would directly confront her like this. She thought it would only annoy him and he would scold her later.

"Yes." Hope's lips were slightly ajar as she could feel the countless gazes that were now directed at her.

"Good, I need your help. Can you come with me for a while?" Kace asked with a warm smile.

"This is lunch time," Oliver protested. He was still upset because of the incident from a few days ago. It was simply embarrassing. "She needs to take a break too."

"Hope, come with me." Kace completely ignored Oliver's words as his eyes stayed fixed on Hope's.

"Sir…" Oliver wanted to complain again, but Hope had put her hand on his shoulder to stop him.

This small gesture made Kace narrow his eyes slightly, not liking the fact that his mate was touching another male right before his eyes.

"It's okay, I will go." Hope stood up and looked at Kace. "Sir?"

Kace smiled softly and walked away from the canteen, he never spared a single glance toward Oliver or his friends, as his eyes remained focused on her.

"What do you want? This is school." Hope followed behind Kace with light steps, trying not to look too obvious that she was close to this new teacher.

"Saved you from a 'situation'." Kace said lightly.

"What do you mean?" Hope didn't understand. "I was sitting with my boyfriend and his friends."

All of a sudden, Kace stopped walking and turned his back, fortunately Hope have good reflexes, so she didn't bump her face straight into his solid chest.

"You can't lie to me, sweety." Kace nudged her nose softly with his forefinger and laughed when Hope's expression turned unsightly. "You don't like it when you have to sit with people that you are not familiar with."

He knew that? No one ever noticed that.

Hope wanted to refuse his theory, but it would sound pathetic and she didn't want to give Kace another reason to laugh in front of her face.

"Thank you for saving me." Hope said it sarcastically.

"Anytime, beautiful." Kace didn't mind Hope's attitude. "Where are you going?"

After saying that, Hope turned around to leave him. "Going back to my class."

However, Kace grabbed the hoodie of her jacket and dragged her back. "I said, I need you, right? So, you have to help me."

"What?" Hope thought it was only an excuse. "No, let go." She hissed, looking around with worry. She didn't want to be the object of gossip of those female students.

However, Kace seemed oblivious to Hope's concerns.

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"Don't apply as a teacher if you are this lazy!" Hope grumbled, staring daggers at the lycan beside her.

They were inside the indoor basketball court of the school building with Hope checking the inventories there.

It so happened that every three months, Mr. Wentworth would do the inventories checking, but since Kace was his substitute, thus it became his task.

Yet, this lycan was too lazy to do that.

"I am not lazy, I am just tired." Kace laid back in the middle of the court while using his arms as pillow.

This school building only had one indoor stadium for P.E, hence all the stuff for P.E was kept there. No need to say that there were many things there.

"There are many things here." Hope complained. "I don't think I can finish it before the bell rings."

"It's alright, just do what can be done." Kace replied in a soft voice, with his eyes closed.

"You are only using me." Hope grumbled and Kace chuckled.

"Feel free to get back at me."

And then there was a silence as Hope started roaming around that place while writing on the paper on the clipboard.

"Kace?"

"Hm?"

"I thought you were sleeping."

"Almost."

"How did you apply as a teacher behind Serefina's back?" knowing Serefina, she would know it before Kace could even step inside this village.

"She was busy and I have great connections."

"Oh."

And then silence again.

Just like what Hope had thought, the bell rang and she couldn't even finish half of it. With a sigh, Hope dragged her feet to come closer to the sleeping Lycan.

It had been a long time since the last time Hope saw Kace sleeping peacefully like this.

She crouched down and stared at him. She got lost in thoughts and forgot that the bell had stopped ringing five minutes ago.

It was very strange when a man could appear very fierce, but also gentle at the same time. Possessive, but considerate, reckless but also knew his responsibilities…

Hope stretched her arm to touch Kace's eyebrows and traced the bridge of his nose, his lips, his chin…

At that time, she saw something on his neck.

What is that?

A scar?

Hope leaned over to see clearly what the dark line on the back of his neck was. Because Kace's hair was a little long now, his nape was covered with it.

However, the moment Hope's fingertips brushed his neck, Kace opened his eyes and they were as black as the night sky.

Hope didn't have time to think when all of a sudden, her back hit the concrete floor and Kace had pinned her under his body with his canines elongated.

Hope gasped, it was terrifying to say the least.

However, before something bad happened, Kace regained his composure as his eyes slowly returned to his blue ones.

"Hope…?" His voice came out very hoarse. 

When Kace had snapped awake from his defensive state and realized what he was doing, horror filled his eyes.

"No! Hope… I am sorry, did I hurt you?" Kace moved fast from above Hope and helped her to sit down, his eyes scanned his mate's body worriedly and he felt terrible when he noticed that Hope was rubbing her head.

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