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.

was shuffling and I could see the leaves and branches rustle. Compared to that, the

tilted my head and kept peering at the forest trees and I

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

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

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

driven off my eyes, I could not let the thoughts of him and Cynthia spending all their waking time together get back to

would focus on training and keep pushing myself, just like

that sharp pull. I could not explain it

towards it and though I tried to but?

down, I could not avoid it.

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

two guards were patrolling near the mansion. Most of them were around the

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

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

so I slowly walked through the perimeter of the huge mansion walls.

were a few small gates on each wall, probably to allow gardeners to trim the excess grass growing alongside the walls on the outside instead of going all the way to the front and then walking back

walk back

was very huge and I could only imagine

was not locked thankfully and I looked back to check if anybody had noticed me. When I

strange prickling on my skin, but when I touched my hand,

around, and the forest seemed perfectly ordinary to me.

muttered and slowly stepped further away

beneath my feet as I stepped through it to make

trees were large, and the canopy

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

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

been Callahan’s only text that suddenly popped up

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

of those walls. I would be fine. Or so

caught in something. I looked down, and I

the strap of my sandals that I had hastily put on while running