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 towards

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

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

in the office. Not that I could just barge

the thoughts of

focus on training and keep pushing myself,

not explain

was dragging me towards it and though I

could not avoid

servants had retired to bed because it was the middle of the night

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

and see what lay in the forest and why

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 climbed down the stairs and pushed the main door

slowly walked through the perimeter of the huge

each wall, probably to allow gardeners to trim the excess grass growing alongside the walls on the outside instead of

walk back

mansion was very huge and I could only imagine how much

gate was not locked thankfully 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

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

looked around, and the forest seemed perfectly ordinary to

stepped further away

green and lush. Soft grass crunched beneath my feet as I stepped

the canopy of leaves

the forest and ensured that ordinary humans would not get too close to us. Everywhere I looked, the scenery appeared the same to me. I was not sure how to pave my way through

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

had been Callahan’s only text

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

as I could see a glimpse of those walls. I would be

the ground and my foot got caught in something. I looked down, and I

off easily. Adjusting the strap of my sandals that I had hastily put on while running out of my room, I went further ahead.