Chapter 402 - A NAME FOR HER

"Don't curse. The baby will hear it." Arian glared at Kace, it wasn't only the baby, but there was her daughter too inside the room. This bad Lycan would bring bad influence!

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"I don't know how to hold her!" Kace hissed, panic was apparent on his expression. His muscles tensed and it didn't help him at all.

"Just hold her head and put your other arms along her body." Ariana tried to find the most comfortable spot to place the baby in the big man arms, but he was too stiff.

"Relax." Ariana said that word for couple of time, yet Kace didn't listen, though he mumbled something like; 'okey' or 'I am relax', but he was nothing of it.

"Hold her like that." Arian slowly removed her arms from under the blanket that wrapped around the baby.

"No. no. Ariana.. I don't think I am ready for this." Kace shook his head vigorously, but kept his arms steady. "No. Don't! I will hurt her!"

"You will not hurt her, you stupid Lycan!" Alec chimed in grumpily, annoyed by how Kace was being overreacted. "You have been holding Arabella, remember!?"

"It's not the same! Arabella was able to run when I carried her for the first time!" Kace retorted and the way the baby felt so light and soft in his embrace didn't help at all, as if he would snap her if he held her tighter than this.

This situation was simply too stressful.

"If you keep holding her like that, you will break her soft neck." Serefina's reckless comment caused her to receive not only Kace, but also Ariana and Alec's glare.

Kace's nervousness was already irksome to see, no need to add on it.

But, the witch only shrugged her shoulder as she picked a glass of water and drank it in one gulp. "I just warned him, so he knows that he could break the baby neck if he didn't relax." But they still didn't avert their gaze from her. "I just want to help." Yet, it didn't sound convincing.

"You don't help him Serefina." Ariana chided her.

"OH! OH! The baby is awake!" Kace's panic voice rang through the living room, his muscled no more tensed, but it had turned into a solid stone as if the Lycan morphed into a statue. "What should I do? What should I do!?"

"Relax!" Ariana growled in frustration as Arabella giggled behind her, shouting the same word toward Kace.

But, Kace was overwhelmed when the baby black eyes stared at him curiously, cooing as her pink lips puckered cutely.

In the next second, Kace found himself was smiling at the precious life in her arms. "Hello little one.." he greeted her and the baby gave him a toothless smile.

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"How did you find her?" Kace had put the baby on the center of the bed with many pillows circled around her.

He was like the overly worried father, who was afraid that his two months baby would roll around in her sleep and fell from the bed, though Ariana had told him that wouldn't happen.

But, of course, Kace wouldn't listen to it and no one would stupid enough to try to persuade him to do otherwise.

However, miraculously, the moment the baby opened her eyes and looked comfortable in his arms, Kace became relax and immersed himself by the sound of the baby cooed at his attempts to make her laugh.

Afterward, Kace handled the baby like an expert until she fell asleep again in his arms after drinking a bottle of warm milk.

"With a little bit this and that, information, magic, connection and my cleverness." Serefina said offhandedly and then she added. "And the moon goddess's bless."

She actually didn't give him any answer, it was expected, Kace just wanted to voice out his confusion about how the witch actually managed to find his mate, especially when she was only born two months ago.

Kace gave her a disdain look. "How about her parents? Did you just kidnap her from her family?"

"Nah, I am not into criminal act. She is an orphan." Serefina replied lazily as she sat down on the edge of the bed.

"So, what we will do now?" Kace shifted his attention from his lovely mate to the annoying witch. "Are we going to raise her?"

"We?" Serefina's eyebrows shot up questioningly. "What do you mean with 'we'? You will not involve in this, I brought her here to let you know that I have found your mate."

Kace frowned. "What do you mean? I thought I will raise her."

"And risk her life because of your dear brother wants her head so bad?" Serefina said mockingly.

"Well, my brother is your lover." Kace bit back.

Serefina brushed off his words. "Your mate, you and I, in one place. Imagine how that Lycan will get a bounty." She referred to Maximus, who was still out there, sniffing the traces of Kace and her.

"She is just a baby.." Kace frowned. Would they kill her?

"I think you forgot that it was a baby that they had killed that night." Serefina reminded him about the night when Kace decided to be a rogue because he couldn't come back to the castle anymore as Jedrek would punish him severely, especially when he was caught with Serefina.

The rumors about them was being a lover would be confirmed.

Kace traced his finger on the baby chubby cheeks. Serefina was right. "What is your plan?"

"She will live with me." Serefina said in matter of fact.

"What?" Kace snapped his head toward her. "Why she has to live with you?" he didn't understand the logic of it. "You said it before that her life is in danger if she lives with us both, but why do you say that you want her to live with you?"

"Because I am good at hiding and you are not." Serefina stated the fact. "But, first of all. You have to give her a name."