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.

certain patch of trees was shuffling and I could see the leaves and branches rustle. Compared to that, the rest of the trees

and kept peering at the forest trees and I felt a strong pull towards it.

at it, I went back to my bed, grabbed my mobile, and switched on

my idea was pretty stupid. The trees stopped rustling and my gaze automatically flicked in the direction of Callahan’s office and I saw that the blinds were drawn.

so he was probably working in the office. Not that I could just barge into his office and talk

driven off my eyes, I could not let the thoughts of him and Cynthia spending all their waking time together get

and keep pushing myself,

was about to close the windows, but I again felt that sharp pull. I could not explain it but somehow my body wanted to go to that exact spot where the

towards it

down, I could not avoid

around and saw that most of the servants had retired to bed because it was the middle of the night and barely

Most of them

chance to step out and see what lay in the forest and why

was still in my pajamas but the coast was clear, so I slowly sneaked out of the room and was careful to not

behind me, so I slowly walked through the

allow gardeners to trim the excess grass growing alongside the walls on the outside instead of

walk back and

very huge and I could only imagine how much

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

felt something strange. There was a strange prickling on my

looked around, and the forest seemed perfectly ordinary

stepped

and lush. Soft grass crunched beneath my feet

were large, and the canopy of leaves was

stayed deep in the forest and ensured that ordinary humans 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 reach where I

thought that, the pull grew stronger as if guiding me to walk through the dense shrubs and

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

mansion’s walls were still visible amid

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

was not paying attention to the ground and my foot got caught in something. I looked down, and

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