Found by the Lycan King

Chapter 131

Chapter 131

Zenovia

I stared at Callahan in shock, my ears ringing.

“What?”

“You should see your face. Your expression is priceless.” Callahan chuckled, but I found nothing funny about the way he casually dropped the bomb upon me.

“Are you really sharing the truth with me? Selene…the Moon Goddess. She cursed you?”

Callahan let his back rest on the chair and looked at the ceiling. “What would I get by feeding you with lies?”

He countered. I had opened my mouth to say something, but I closed it abruptly.

His reality was even absurder than some of the crazy theories I had heard about his curse. Some said he was cursed by a witch for some fallacy while others said that he killed his loved ones so fate worked against him.

But nothing I had heard so far came even remotely close to the reality he was sharing with me.

“How old are you, exactly?” I asked, my foot tapping restlessly on the floor and a slow grin appeared on his face.

“Of all the questions I thought you would ask me, this did not make the list.”

I frowned, folding my hands over my chest. I was not sure if I was ready to ask him the other questions. My mind was still reeling from the information dump.

So, I replied sarcastically, trying to hide my nervousness.

“That does not answer my question.”

being cheeky? Was that a way to show how unbothered he was with the secrets he was uncovering? An attempt to hide his true grief and emotions by acting like

out a sigh.

from “The First Children’, so you have to guess how old that makes me.”

saucers. I did not want to calculate. My brain was trying to process a

expressions, he added,

earth. I am the unlucky one who survived while everyone I knew died. Well, most of them. I did

his hands

“You are immortal?”

a disbelieving look.

have been telling you.” He sighed again and raked a hand through his hair,

resisted. I could not distract him right now. Or myself. I did not know when

self-inflicted wound. The more I asked, the more his cool facade seemed to be slipping away. It was visible in his body language, though he tried to maintain a neutral

why I am cursed or what exactly happened all those years ago. I believe you are the first one I opened

of pure surprise. Not that my expressions had been any different for the past thirty minutes

living with him for years and were his loyal warriors and friends. Surely, I thought, he must have told them. But his answer was the exact opposite of

believe the same thing, that

feel to not be able to help you. So why do you let them follow false leads?”

his hand on the chair. “Because I cannot tell them. The curse forbade me to tell anybody anything. And think about it, Zee. What should I tell them? That their precious Selene cursed me? Should I tell them that the Goddess they pray to day and night to help them find a cure for me is the one who put

only stare at him

learned about him, this was beyond my wildest. imagination. At this point, I was just blabbering

flashes of things revolving around you…..why did you never tell her? She works day and night

me, as if to pull

me to speak of the details. Telling anyone about it would mean their death. I could not tell them the truth and see them die. I am selfish, Zee. I have been the reason for countless deaths, and I live with that guilt

his forehead on mine. I saw the way his face looked more and more troubled. He got up from the chair and walked towards the side table, grabbed

not spoken about all this in ages…or in forever. Those were the dark days and there was nothing but blood and massacre all around me. We would keep fighting and the pile of dead bodies always kept increasing. Selene…she was obsessed with taking Mirabel down, but Mirabel’s witches and

My voice was barely a

humorless chuckle. “A protector, Selene did not care about those who died fighting for her. The severely injured were discarded as

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