Chapter 69: Monkey’s Paw (2)
After the ape disappeared, Everly held her forehead, feeling a sudden wave of dizziness.
A series of “crackling” sounds came to her ears, and in her vision, everything around her seemed like shattered glass, with cracks forming everywhere.
As the cracks grew larger and finally fractured completely, a strong sense of weightlessness washed over her. Everly felt as if she were plunging into a bottomless abyss. Endless currents of water surrounded her, dragging her down, down, down… until, finally, amid an ever-intensifying vertigo, Everly closed her eyes and lost consciousness.
“Huff… huff huff…”
The next second, in a quiet bedroom, the sleeping girl suddenly opened her eyes, threw back the covers, and sat up abruptly in bed.
“I… what just—”
She reached out, first touching her left wrist. Her cold fingers were damp with sweat, and she finally felt the slender silver chain wrapped around her wrist, along with the shattered glass beads that now remained only half-intact.
Touching the “Evil Eye” bracelet, Everly finally relaxed. It seemed she had successfully repelled the evil presence and emerged from the nightmare.
Thinking of the terrifying ape in her dream, Everly quickly got out of bed, turned on the light, and took out all the self-defense tools from her nightstand, arranging them in a circle around her. Once she was certain she could stand her ground even if the monkey creature returned, she grabbed her phone and quickly called her old acquaintance, Rebecca.