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.”

the secrets he was uncovering? An attempt to hide his true grief and emotions by acting

out

I am the only one left from “The First Children’, so you have

as wide as saucers. I did not want to calculate. My brain was trying to process a lot at the

perplexed expressions, he

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 keep track of the new lycans that Selene kept creating to add numbers

his hands coiled into fists.

“You are immortal?”

asked with a disbelieving look.

paid more attention to what I have been telling you.” He sighed again and raked a

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

face 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.

have been living with this knowledge, this burden for years. Not many know why I am cursed or what exactly happened all those years ago. I believe you are the first one I opened

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

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

They all believe the same thing, that

to not be able to help you. So why do you let them

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 them that the Goddess they pray to day and night

could only stare at

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

never tell her? She works day and

grabbed my hand and shook me, as if to pull me to

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. I cannot bear to live with

saw the way his face looked more and more troubled. He got up from

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

voice was barely a

injured were discarded as easily as the dead and she kept creating more lycans than tending to those who were

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