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

let out a sigh.

said I am the only one left from “The First Children’,

wide as saucers. I did not want to calculate. My

perplexed expressions, he

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

his hands coiled

“You are immortal?”

asked with a disbelieving look.

you.” He sighed again and raked

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 wanted me to do

I asked, the more his cool facade seemed to be slipping

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

him with a look of pure surprise. Not that my expressions had been any different for the past thirty minutes or so since

and were his loyal warriors and friends. Surely, I thought,

of them. They all believe the same thing, that some

solution and you know how dejected they feel to not

That their precious Selene cursed me? Should I tell them that the Goddess they pray to day and night

only stare at him in shock.

wildest. imagination. At this point, I

tell her? She works day and

hand and shook me, as if to pull

said the curse forbid 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 every day.

He got up from the chair and walked towards the side table, grabbed a bottle of whisky and poured some for himself into a

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 wizards

was barely a whisper.

care about those who died fighting for her. The severely injured were discarded as easily as the dead

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