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.

my stomach. But some invisible force propelled me inside, and the moment my foot crossed the threshold, the door slammed shut behind

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

were as white and jagged as ever, somehow longer and pointier now than they were before. It was mocking me without ever uttering a single

knuckles ached from beating on the door, but

from my eyes, hot and

was beside me in an instant,

had a... nightmare," was all I could manage, my voice

details. He didn't need to, because he already knew. This was slowly becoming a part of

him, enveloping me in his arms, his warmth chasing away the lingering terror that was quaking my body. He began rocking me

of the dream-of the recurring shadow entity, and its malevolent glee. Could it signify an aspect of my subconscious? A

therapy; the notion seemed too risky after what had happened

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