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.

and I could see the leaves and branches rustle. Compared to that,

head and kept peering at the forest trees and I

get a good look at it, I went back to my bed, grabbed my mobile, and switched

trees stopped rustling and my gaze automatically

I could just barge into his office and talk to him or share my observations with him.

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

and

I could not explain it but

it and though I tried to

deep down, I could

retired to bed

near the mansion. Most of them were around the huge gated compound

what lay in the forest and why

sneaked out of the room and

me, so I slowly walked through the perimeter of the huge mansion walls.

to allow gardeners to trim the excess grass growing alongside the walls on

back and forth.

only imagine how

me. When I saw that there was nobody, I slowly sneaked outside the gate and stepped through the gate.

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

and the forest seemed

I muttered and slowly stepped further away from

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

canopy of

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

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

Callahan’s only text that suddenly popped up in

back, and the mansion’s walls were still visible

glimpse of those walls. I would be fine.

foot got caught in something. I looked down, and I saw that my feet had somehow gotten entangled in

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