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

are in grave danger. Do not

This mysteriousness was really

you.”

about? Can you at

woman took such a long pause that I feared she was never going

King. Do

sudden, the brightness disappeared. The forest was black again, and I sensed that the woman was leaving… to wherever she wanted to

stop her. This was a weird

should I not trust

he is done with you. You are just a

she spoke of Callahan

that?” I tried again.

I being used as a pawn? But if she knew I stayed with him, why did she save me

leverage against Callahan. And Sid was convinced Callahan was not the man I wanted

did my heart say otherwise?

getting

in thoughts that I did not even notice that

answer me,

to thank me for saving your life, you shall

“Do what?”

and don’t mention me to anybody.”

you want from me. You have

stupid, but then I could not trust a stranger saying that Callahan was going to kill me.

the past, I had thought of him wanting to choke me to death,

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

me long ago if he

meet

a bright light shone on my face abruptly. It was so

winced as I threw my hands in front

a while, I opened my

was

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

to remember, but my brain could not give me a single satisfactory answer to my questions. There

me that Callahan was not trustworthy.

my head and tried to recall, but a sharp bolt of pain shot up my brain when I tried

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