Chapter 0507

I leaned in, capturing his lips with mine. He returned in kind, and gently lifted me, carrying me to the bed.

We collapsed on each other in a sweaty, satisfied heap. With my head resting on Enzo's chest, his arms around me, I felt completely and utterly safe. But still, I couldn't fight the heaviness that crept into my eyelids, pulling me into the welcoming arms of sleep.

But the world I slipped into was anything but welcoming.

I was back in the maze like tunnels beneath the campus, my breaths echoing in the dank, subterranean air. The shadow entity was there, a lanky figure up ahead, beckoning for me.

Curiosity, or maybe something darker, pulled me along. I followed.

heavy knot in my stomach. But some invisible force propelled me inside, and the moment my foot crossed the threshold,

at the door, pounding on it with my fists. "Let me out!" I screamed, the

parody of a grin. Its teeth were as white and jagged as ever, somehow longer and pointier now than they were before. It

on me. My knuckles ached from beating on the door, but it was

from my eyes, hot

beside me in an instant, his eyes clouded with

all I could manage,

didn't ask for details. He didn't need to, because he already

was quaking my body. He began rocking me gently, back and forth, whispering, "It's okay,

the recurring shadow entity, and its malevolent glee. Could it signify an aspect of my subconscious? A warning of some sort? Or was

Enzo down about therapy; the

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