Chapter 2126

Serena couldn't catch a wink the whole night. She gripped the protective pendant that she had purchased from one of the handmaidens at a hefty price. She assumed the impending horror from last night would return, that Grace would stare at her the entire night again. To her surprise, Grace simply rose from the bed and sat upright. Serena buried her head under the covers, clutching the protective pendant in her fist, but she could still hear Grace's slow and deliberate footsteps drawing closer to her bedside. Her whole body trembled, as if bracing for judgment to fall at any moment. However, time dragged on. She waited so long that her breathing grew shallow, yet no sound came from the other side. Just when Serena assumed Grace had left and nervously peeked out from under the quilt, she found herself face to face with a pair of cold, unblinking eyes that had been waiting for her to come up for air. In the dead of night, Serena's piercing scream rang out again through the entire ha