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.”

way to show how unbothered he was with the secrets he was

out

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

did not want to calculate. My brain

perplexed expressions, he

older than most of the living creatures walking this earth. I am the unlucky one who survived while everyone I knew died. Well, most of them. I did not exactly

as his hands

“You are immortal?”

with a disbelieving

and raked a hand through his hair, letting his long hair

urge to touch the hair and rake my fingers through that silky mane, but resisted. I could not distract him right now. Or myself. I did not know when he would open up again if I did what my heart

was pained, and every word he spoke was like a self-inflicted wound. The more I asked, the more his cool facade seemed to be slipping away. It was visible

for years. Not many know why I am cursed or what exactly happened all those years

look of pure surprise. Not that my expressions had been any different for the past thirty minutes or so since he started speaking.

asked. They had been living with him for years and were his loyal warriors and friends. Surely, I thought, he must have told them.

thing, that some witch cursed And

told me that they keep looking for a solution and you know how dejected they feel to not be able to

slammed 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

stare at him in

the things I had learned about him, this was beyond my wildest. imagination. At this point, I was just blabbering things that popped up in my mind.

and night to find a cure and you hide such

shook me, as if to

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 every day. I cannot bear to live with the

more and more troubled. He got up from the chair and walked towards

We would keep fighting and the pile of dead bodies always kept increasing.

My voice was barely

fighting for her. The severely injured were discarded as easily as the dead and she kept creating more

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