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.

see the leaves and branches rustle. Compared to that, the rest

the forest trees and

went back to my bed, grabbed my mobile, and switched on the

trees stopped rustling and my

switched on, so he was probably working in the office. Not that I could just barge into

let the thoughts of him and Cynthia spending all their

training and keep pushing

pull. I could not explain it but somehow my body

me towards it and though I tried to

down, I could

most of the servants had retired to bed

them were around the

step out and see what lay in the forest and why I suddenly feeling this

the coast 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

so I slowly walked through the

were a few small gates on each wall, probably to allow gardeners to trim the excess grass growing alongside the walls on the outside instead of going all the way to

back and forth.

mansion was very huge and I could only imagine how much time it would

gate was not locked thankfully and I looked back to check if anybody had noticed me. When I saw that there was nobody,

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

and the forest seemed perfectly ordinary to me.

and slowly stepped

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

the canopy of

deep in the forest and ensured that ordinary humans would not get too close to us. Everywhere I looked, the scenery appeared

that, the pull grew stronger as if guiding me to walk through the dense shrubs and reach the spot in the shortest

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

back, and the mansion’s walls were still visible amid the towering grass and bushes.

a glimpse of those walls. I would be fine.

something. I looked down, and I saw that

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