Chapter 77

Zenovia

My eyes roamed around nervously and I waited for a reply, but there was silence.

Had I imagined all of it? Definitely not.

So I tried again.

“I… I just wanted to thank you for the help. Thank you for saving me,” I said and then a soft voice replied to me.

“Do not mention me to anybody”

It seemed to reach my ears from behind. I turned around so fast that I felt I had snapped my neck. But the direction from which the voice had come was devoid of any living being.

All I could see were leaves and branches. Why was this person playing hide and seek with me?

“B-but why are you hiding from me? I…I am not going to harm you,” I offered. I knew I did not look like a scary predator, but I could not understand what this person wanted from me.

The voice let out a deep, rumbling laughter. “You cannot harm me, but the people around you can and will”

The voice was speaking mysteriously, and I felt all the more intrigued.

“What people around me? Who will harm you?”

The voice seemed to be of a female, but I could not quite ascertain the age of the woman based on just the voice alone.

When I did not receive an answer, I asked again.

However, instead of answering me, I received a question.

“What is your name?” The woman asked me instead, though she was still hiding from me.

At least she was talking. Maybe she was just being cautious. But since she helped me, I decided to be honest.

“My name is Zenovia. What is yours? And why are you here in the forest? What were those vines?” I asked, but the woman dodged my questions yet again.

The voice seemed to echo through the forest, not letting me trace it back to the location of the speaker who was lurking in the woods. At one point it seemed to come from the right, at others from the left, as if the speaker was circling me.

Though how she was doing, it was a mystery to me.

was she not showing me her face?

are in grave danger.

was really

you.”

Can you at least give me

a long pause that I feared she was never going to

Do not trust

voice said, and then all of a sudden, the brightness disappeared. The forest was black

my feet and tried to stop

Why should I not trust him?”

will use you and throw you away when he is done with you. You are just a

the way she spoke of Callahan told me she hated him

would you say that?” I

my mind. Was there a rogue somewhere who wanted to hurt him? Was I being used as a pawn? But if she knew I

leverage against Callahan. And Sid was convinced Callahan was not the man I wanted to be with. And now

my

was getting very

did not

answer me,

for saving your life, you shall do as I say.”

“Do what?”

him and don’t mention me to anybody.”

you want from me. You have not

not trust a stranger saying that Callahan was going to kill me.

of him wanting to choke me to death, but he had gotten plenty

he was particularly nice to me or the sweetest gentleman I had ever come across.

have killed me long

will meet again.”

I could enquire further, a bright light shone on my face abruptly. It was so intense that

winced as I threw my hands in front

a while, I opened my eyes, and I

I was

was I doing in the forest? How did I come here? Had Callahan dumped me

remember, but my brain could not give me a single satisfactory answer to my questions. There was only a lingering feeling, a light

that

of my head and tried to recall, but

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