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.

leaves and branches rustle. Compared to

my head and kept peering at the forest

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

forest but my idea was pretty stupid. The trees stopped rustling and my gaze automatically flicked in the direction of Callahan’s office and

was probably working in the office. Not that I could just

the thoughts of him and Cynthia spending

and keep pushing myself, just

not explain it but somehow my body wanted to go to that exact spot where

inexplicable pull was dragging me towards it and though I tried to but?

I could not

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

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

and see what lay in

my pajamas but the coast was clear, so I slowly sneaked out of the room and was careful to not make any noise.

was behind me, so I slowly walked through the

to trim the excess grass growing alongside the walls on the outside instead

walk back and

very huge and I could only imagine how

check if anybody had noticed me. When I saw that

was a strange prickling on my skin, but when I touched

the forest seemed perfectly ordinary to

slowly stepped further away from the walls.

beneath my feet as I

canopy of leaves was quite dense.

scenery appeared the same

stronger as if guiding me to walk through the dense

been Callahan’s only

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

those walls. I would be fine. Or so I

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

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