Found by the Lycan King by Natalie Winter

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.

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

head and kept peering at the forest trees and I felt a strong pull

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

stupid. The trees stopped rustling and my gaze automatically flicked in the direction of Callahan’s office and I saw that

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

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

would focus on training and keep pushing

I again felt that sharp pull. I could not explain it but somehow my body wanted to go to that exact spot where

dragging me towards it and though I tried to but?

could not avoid it.

of the servants had retired to bed because it was the

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

to step out and see what lay in the forest and why I suddenly feeling this pull.

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

I slowly walked through the perimeter of the

alongside the walls on the outside instead of going all the way to the front and

back and

only imagine how much time

and I looked back to check if anybody had noticed me. When I saw that

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

forest seemed perfectly ordinary

and slowly stepped further away from

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

and the canopy

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

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

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

the mansion’s walls were still visible amid the towering grass

those walls. I would be fine. Or so

caught in something. I looked down, and I saw that my

easily. Adjusting the strap of my sandals that I had hastily put on while running out