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.
I could see the leaves and branches rustle. Compared
peering at the forest trees and I felt a
to get a good look at it, I went back to my bed, grabbed my mobile,
and my gaze automatically
was probably working in the office. Not that I could just barge into his office and talk to him or share my observations with him.
my eyes, I could not let the thoughts of him and Cynthia spending all their waking time together get back to
and keep pushing myself, just like
could not explain it but somehow my body wanted to go to that
dragging me towards it and though I tried to
could not avoid
of the servants had retired to bed because it was the middle of the night
were patrolling near the mansion. Most of them were around the huge gated compound in the front.
chance to step out and see what lay in the forest and why I
so I slowly sneaked out of the room and
was behind me, so I slowly walked through the perimeter of the huge
the walls on the outside instead of going all the way to the front
walk back and forth.
was very huge and I could only imagine how
thankfully and I looked back to check if anybody had noticed me. When I
prickling on
and the forest seemed perfectly
stepped
feet as I
and the canopy of leaves was
would not get too close to us. Everywhere I looked, the scenery appeared
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
and the mansion’s walls were still
could see a glimpse of those walls.
was not paying attention to the ground and my foot got caught in something. I looked down, and
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