Chapter 0764

I sighed and ran a hand through my hair. Tyler was right; the book was quiet now, but I could still feel its energy thrumming without even touching it. Whatever magic had been soothed because of the moonstone would likely not react well to being burned.

Which was likely why it had been shoved into the back of a high shelf in the library.

"Well... It was fun while it lasted," Tyler said, standing. "But it seems like the sort of ritual that wasn't meant for us.

I swallowed, nodding, and instinctively went to cover my belly with my hand-as though that could somehow protect the little life inside of me.

"Yeah," I managed around the knot that had formed in my throat. "I guess it wasn't."

That night, I laid in my bed, staring up at the ceiling. My mind whirled with a thousand different thoughts, the strange book and its contents the least of them. No, my thoughts were focused on Enzo.

that whatever Mila had planned for him was reversible,

that he would come home safely

to slip off into sleep. But as I found myself in the world

rot and decay, the phantom sensation of icy fingers trailing down my spine, the deafening silence that was only shattered by a scream torn from my

over me—those hollow, malevolent eyes boring into me as it cocked its head in that sickeningly choppy motion,

wide-eyed at the entity, but I couldn't move. The entity moved closer, reaching for me,

if the entity was escaping my dreams

"Nina."

familiarity washed over me. I knew that voice; I had

There isn't much

in my throat, choked off by the shadow entity's presence. But as

just needed

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