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.

I hoped that whatever Mila had

would come home

found myself in the world of dreams once again, I almost wished I had

phantom sensation of icy fingers trailing down my spine, the deafening silence that was

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

couldn't move. The entity moved closer, reaching

entity was escaping my dreams and re-entering

"Nina."

through the thick 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 even before the

There isn't

formed on my lips, although my voice remained stubbornly trapped in my throat, choked off by the shadow entity's presence. But as it turned out, maybe I didn't need to

just needed

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