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.

whatever Mila had planned

come

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

and sensations the cloying scent of 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 dreams split apart to reveal the entity itself looming over me—those hollow, malevolent eyes boring into me

at the entity, but I couldn't move. The entity moved closer, reaching for me, grinning wider and wider. I felt my dream

was escaping my

"Nina."

layer of fear, and instantly, familiarity washed over me. I knew that voice; I had heard it a hundred times before, thousands, millions, before I was born, maybe

isn't much

remained stubbornly trapped in my throat, choked off by the shadow entity's presence. But as it turned out,

needed

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