563 HOW DO YOU KNOW?

"Kace?" Hope approached him. "I have been looking for you because you are not in your room."

Kace was leaning his tall body against the wall, he was standing on the terrace, staring at the distance where the village was located, surrounded by a wall for protection. 

"Why? You miss me?" Kace tilted his head and grinned, just like how he used to be. 

If Hope didn't know him better, she would have thought, the lycan had returned to his usual easy-going personality. 

However, now she realized that he just returned to his façade. 

Hope walked towards him and hugged him tightly, feeling his body against hers as she buried her face on his chest. 

"What? What happened?" Kace traced her long black hair while watching the sun finally rise behind the mountain. 

This was a quiet morning, so calm and serene as if its purity could wash away all the sins that he had done or cleaned any traces of blood off his hands and his memory.