Chapter 0603

Nina

Now that my mother had left the room, it was just me and the witch, Elara. She gazed at me with those deep emerald eyes, her expression serious.

I just stared at her, my eyes wide. She had just told me that I was seemingly curse-free and that my baby was healthy, but now it seemed as though she was about to drop a new bomb.

"What is it?" I found myself asking, my voice hardly more than a whisper.

Elara sighed. "Nina, there is something you need to know," she said. "I wanted to tell you privately because I don't want to scare your mother."

I quirked an eyebrow. "What is it?"

"A dark entity," she said. "Something is attached to you. And it doesn't want to let go."

As soon as she spoke, I felt my heart beginning to race. I knew exactly what-or perhaps who-she was referring to. "The shadow entity," I whispered, covering my mouth with my hand.

Elara shot me a concerned look before she continued. "Rest assured that it is not a demon," she said gently. "But rather the spirit of someone who passed; someone whose spirit was darkened at the time of their death."

My concern turned to confusion. Not a demon, but rather the spirit of someone who had passed...

"But it makes no sense," I said. "I thought I was having hallucinations. I thought I was going mad."

Elara's gaze remained steady as she shook her head. "It could be someone from your past, someone who held deep resentment or hatred towards you," she explained, as though sensing my baffled expression. "Perhaps even someone connected to your family. Have you experienced any deaths in the family recently?"

was Tiffany, but she held no resentment for me... Then there was Selena, but I had thought she was on better terms with me by the time of

was Richard, Enzo's father. But that made no sense. We barely knew

it

the name out loud would summon her. If anyone harbored severe resentment for me, then it would

nodded thoughtfully. "I have no way of knowing who exactly it could be," she said. "But it's possible that, if this person harbored strong resentment or pure hatred toward you

her spirit haunting me was terrifying." What can I do?" I asked, my voice trembling. "Do I

voice dropping to a whisper. "First, tell me about this 'shadow entity' you

figure lurking in the corners of my mind, the hallucinations,

my biological mother, too, and the hallucinations she had

listened intently. Her expression grew more solemn with each word, and

once I was finished, "I cannot attest to your mother's experience, but these visions are most certainly visitations of an

All this time, I had thought I was going mad, and yet it was instead, quite possibly, some entity that had attached itself

to face the trunk she

several moments until she produced several vials of different-colored

off the spirit's influence," she said as she held them out to me. They will protect you and your child until

vials, clutching them tightly in my

keep one on the threshold of your home, and another on the threshold of the place you sleep; this bedroom, I'm

the third one?"

nodded as she handed all three to me. "Wear it on your person at all times," she said.

small comfort to have something tangible to hold

baby is born?"

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