Chapter 76

Zenovia

I was in dreamland, covered in sheets and wrapped in it like a cocoon, when I heard a noise from the windows.

My body felt stiff and sore as I groaned in my sleep and mentally hoped whoever it was to leave me alone.

“Shoo,” I muttered in my sleep, but the noise was persistent.

It was an odd noise, like somebody was scraping their nails on the windowpanes. My eyelids felt heavy, and I groggily opened them while trying to look around.

I didn’t know Elijah was a prankster, but he was goofy, so he might have found a way to annoy me.

When nobody answered, I pulled the pillows above my head and tried shutting my eyes again.

There was a noise again, coming from the window. The odd scraping noise had returned.

I felt so annoyed that I threw the pillows and finally opened my eyes to throw my fists at someone.

But there was nothing. My room was empty.

I looked around stupidly and muttered, “Elijah, this is a very cruel way to wake someone up from sleep.”

I waited for a minute or two, but Elijah did not reply. Frowning, I gathered the sheets and was about to pull them up over myself again when I saw the window.

It was open, and the curtains were flying through the light breeze.

‘But I had closed the windows before sleeping,’ I thought and kept staring at the window stupidly.

Letting out a sigh, I got up from the bed and went to close the window.

‘Maybe I did not close it tight enough, I thought and shrugged.

But when I reached the window and tried to close it, my gaze fell on the dense trees outside the mansion’s huge gated compound.

of trees was shuffling and I could see the leaves and branches rustle. Compared to that, the rest of the trees looked oddly still.

and kept peering at the forest trees and I felt a

get a good look at it, I went back to my

shine it on the forest but my idea was pretty stupid. The trees stopped rustling and my gaze automatically flicked

in the office. Not that I could just barge into his office and talk to him or share my observations

I could not let the thoughts of him and Cynthia spending all their waking time together get back

would focus on training and keep pushing myself, just

pull. I could not explain it but somehow my

me towards it and

I could not

most of the servants had retired to bed because it was the middle

the mansion. Most of them were around

chance to step out and see what lay in

was clear, so I slowly sneaked out of the room and was careful to not make any noise. I climbed down the stairs and pushed

was behind me, so I slowly walked through the perimeter

trim the excess grass growing alongside the walls on the outside instead of going all the way to the front and then walking back to the

walk back and forth.

very huge and I could only imagine how much time it

locked thankfully and I looked back to check if anybody had noticed me. When I saw that there was nobody, I slowly

I did, I felt something strange. There was a strange prickling on my skin, but when I touched my hand, there was

looked around, and the forest seemed perfectly

I muttered and slowly stepped further

around me was green and lush. Soft grass crunched beneath my feet as I stepped

large, and the canopy of leaves was

would not get too close to us. Everywhere I looked, the scenery appeared the same to me. I was not sure how to pave my way through the forest and

if guiding me to walk through the dense shrubs and reach the spot in

the mansion’ That had been Callahan’s only text that suddenly popped up in my

were still visible amid the towering grass

could see a glimpse of those walls. I would be fine.

paying attention to the ground and my foot got caught in something. I looked down, and I saw that

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