Chapter 77


    Zenovia


    My eyes roamed around nervously and I waited for a reply, but there was silence.


    Had I imagined all of it? Definitely not.


    So I tried again.


    “I… I just wanted to thank you for the help. Thank you for saving me,” I said and then a soft voice


    replied to me.


    “Do not mention me to anybody”


    It seemed to reach my ears from behind. I turned around so fast that I felt I had snapped my neck. But


    the direction from which the voice hade was devoid of any living being.


    All I could see were leaves and branches. Why was this person ying hide and seek with me?


    “B-but why are you hiding from me? I…I am not going to harm you,” I offered. I knew I did not look like


    a scary predator, but I could not understand what this person wanted from me.


    The voice let out a deep, rumblingughter. “You cannot harm me, but the people around you can and


    will”


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    The voice was speaking mysteriously, and I felt all the more intrigued.


    “What people around me? Who will harm you?”


    The voice seemed to be of a female, but I could not quite ascertain the age of the woman based on just


    the voice alone.


    When I did not receive an answer, I asked again.


    However, instead of answering me, I received a question.


    “What is your name?” The woman asked me instead, though she was still hiding from me.


    At least she was talking. Maybe she was just being cautious. But since she helped me, I decided to be


    honest.


    “My name is Zenovia. What is yours? And why are you here in the forest? What were those vines?” I


    asked, but the woman dodged my questions yet again.


    The voice seemed to echo through the forest, not letting me trace it back to the location of the speaker


    who was lurking in the woods. At one point it seemed toe from the right, at others from the left, as


    if the speaker was circling me.


    Though how she was doing, it was a mystery to me.


    And just why was she not showing me her face?


    “Zenovia. You are in grave danger. Do not trust those around


    I blinked. This mysteriousness was really confusing me.


    you.”


    “Who are you talking about? Can you at least give me a name?”


    The woman took such a long pause that I feared she was never going to reply.


    “The Lycan King. Do not trust him”


    The voice said, and then all of a sudden, the brightness disappeared. The forest was ck again, and I


    sensed that the woman was leaving… to wherever she wanted to go.


    I quickly scampered back on my feet and tried to stop her. This was a weird encounter, but I needed


    answers.


    “Hello? Why should I not trust him?”


    “Because he will use you and throw you away when he is done with you. You are just a sacrificial


    lamb.”


    Her words held a bitter tone, but the way she spoke of Cahan told me she hated him to the core.


    “W-why would you say that?” I tried again.


    Various thoughts were shing through my mind. Was there a rogue somewhere who wanted to hurt


    him? Was I being used as a pawn? But if she knew I stayed with him, why did she save me from the


    vines?


    The rogue King had tried to get to me through Sid so that he could use me as a leverage against


    Cahan. And Sid was convinced Cahan was not the man I wanted to be with. And now this woman,


    too, was saying that Cahan was not trustworthy.


    But why did my heart say otherwise?


    This was getting very confusing.


    I was so lost in thoughts that I did not even notice that she had not answered me yet.


    “Will you answer me, please?”


    “Mark my words, and if you want to thank me for saving your life, you shall do as I say.”


    “Do what?”


    “Don’t trust him and don’t mention me to anybody.”


    “B-but I don’t even know who you are or what you want from me. You have not shown your face or told


    me your name. How can I trust you?”


    I countered. My question was a little stupid, but then I could not trust a stranger saying that Cahan


    was going to kill me.


    Granted, in the past, I had thought of him wanting to choke me to death, but he had gotten plenty of


    chances already to do


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    Not that he was particrly nice to me or the sweetest gentleman I had evere across.


    But he would have killed me long ago if he wanted to, right?


    “We will meet again.”


    She said, and before I could enquire further, a bright light shone on my face abruptly. It was so intense


    that I instantly shut my eyes.


    “Ouch” I winced as I threw my hands in front of my face to block the intense light.


    After a while, I opened my eyes, and I looked around.


    And I was confused.


    What was I doing in the forest? How did Ie here? Had Cahan dumped me here in the middle of


    the night?


    I tried hard to remember, but my brain could not give me a single satisfactory answer to my questions.


    There was only a lingering feeling, a light caress on my mind as if I had learnt something important


    today.


    Something had told me that Cahan was not trustworthy.


    But what or who was it? I scratched the back of my head and tried to recall, but a sharp bolt of pain


    shot up my brain when I tried that.


    Holding my head in my hands, I stumbled back and looked around hazily. And when I stopped trying to


    recall, the pain disappeared too.


    Maybe my wolf was messing with my head. That was the only thing I could think of.


    When I looked up, the mansion walls were just a few feet away, so I began walking hastily towards the


    mansion. I did not want to be scolded again for being out of the safe walls that toote at night.


    I had bend to dust my clothes and was approaching the mansion simultaneously so I did not see


    ahead.


    And in my haste, I bumped into something hard.


    “Ouch,” I muttered and felt as if I had walked into a concrete wall. But then two hands grabbed me by


    the shoulders and a familiar voice asked,


    “What are you doing here?”


    I looked up to see Cahan, and he was staring intently at me.


    He looked angry and upset with me, and I only folded my hands together as the cold breeze swept past


    me.


    “I…no-nothing…just my wolf going crazy,” I mumbled as he looked back at the forest.


    “What were you doing there all alone? You know there are rogues running loose. And the rogue King is


    looking for you. Do you not value your life?” He reprimanded me and I lied, “Nothing, I just wanted


    some fresh air”


    I did not want to exin anything…because there was nothing to exin. Whenever I thought of why I


    hade here or how, my head would start hurting.


    Only the thought that I should not trust him was subtly poking at me, but I had no idea why that thought


    appeared in my


    head.


    I felt like trusting him. I wanted to trust him. But my mind was a mess.


    Probably my wolf wanted us to meet our true mate, and not be tied to a cursed lycan King so she was


    subtly telling my subconscious to stay away from him.


    That could be the only theory that made sense to me. And it made me feel a little relieved that my wolf


    was trying tomunicate with me…


    Cahan squinted his eyes, but did not say a word at my answer. He looked at the forest onest time


    as if some hidden enemy would spring up out of nowhere. When he was convinced there was no one


    around, he looked back at me again.


    “Let’s get you back inside” He curled his fingers around my hand and we began walking towards the


    mansion.


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