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.

shuffling and I could see the leaves and branches rustle.

tilted my head and kept peering at the forest

went back to my bed, grabbed my mobile, and

shine it on the forest but my idea was pretty stupid. The trees stopped rustling and my gaze automatically

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

not let the thoughts

would focus on training and

explain it but somehow my body wanted to

me towards it and though

could not

most of the servants had retired to

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

a good chance to step out and see what lay in the forest and

was clear, 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 and then walking back to

walk back and forth.

I could only imagine how much time it would

back to check if anybody had noticed me. When I saw that there was

was a strange prickling

forest seemed

and slowly stepped further

green and lush. Soft grass crunched beneath my feet as

trees were large, and the canopy of leaves was quite

too close to us. Everywhere I looked, the scenery appeared the same to me. I was not sure how to pave my way through the forest

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

Callahan’s only text that suddenly popped up in my head.

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

glimpse of those walls. I would be fine. Or so

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

strap of my sandals that I

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