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.

not showing me

You are in grave danger. Do not trust those around

was

you.”

are you talking about? Can you at least

that I feared she was never going to reply.

Do not trust him”

black again, and

my feet and tried to stop her. This

I not

away when he is done with you. You are just

way she spoke of Callahan told me

would you say that?” I tried again.

a rogue somewhere who wanted to hurt him? Was I being used as a pawn? But if she knew I stayed with him, why did she save me from

against Callahan. And Sid was convinced Callahan was not the man I wanted to be with. And now this woman, too,

why did my heart say otherwise?

getting very

was so lost in thoughts that I did not

answer me,

for

“Do what?”

trust him and don’t mention me to

want from me. You have not shown your face or told me your name. How can I

little stupid, but then I could not trust a stranger saying that Callahan was

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

me or the sweetest gentleman

killed me long ago if he wanted to, right?

meet again.”

shone on my face abruptly. It was so intense that I instantly shut my

winced as I threw my hands in front of my

my eyes, and I

was

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

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

me that Callahan

I scratched the back of my head and tried to recall, but a

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