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.

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

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

good look at it, I went back to my bed, grabbed my mobile, and switched on the torch.

stopped rustling and my gaze automatically flicked in the direction of Callahan’s office and I saw that the blinds were

switched on, so he was probably working in the office. Not that I could just barge into his office and talk to him or

I could not let the thoughts

on training and keep pushing myself, just like

could not explain it but somehow my body wanted to go

inexplicable pull was dragging me towards it

could not

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

of them were around the huge gated compound in the front.

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

of the room and was careful to

was behind me, so I slowly walked through

the excess grass growing alongside the walls on the outside

walk back and forth.

huge and I could only imagine how much time it would take just

and I looked back to check if anybody had noticed me. When I saw that there was nobody, I slowly sneaked outside the gate and stepped through

something strange. There was a strange prickling on

the forest seemed

stepped further away from

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

and the canopy of leaves

the scenery appeared the same to me. I was not sure how to pave my way through the forest

to walk through the dense

been Callahan’s only text that suddenly popped up

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

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

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

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