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.”

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

am the only one left from “The First Children’, so you have to guess how old that makes

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

expressions, he added,

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 to

hands coiled

“You are immortal?”

asked with a disbelieving

wish you paid more attention to what I have been telling you.” He sighed again and raked a hand through his hair, letting his long hair fall to the sides in a messy way.

could not distract him right now. Or myself.

his cool facade seemed to

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

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

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 my assumption.

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

dejected they feel to not be

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 me in

only stare at him in

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

never tell her? She works day and night to find a cure and you hide such a huge secret from her, from

as if to pull

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 thought of causing them harm. I would not be able to forgive myself if anything happened

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 a bottle of whisky and poured some for

nothing but blood and massacre all around me. We would keep fighting and the pile of dead bodies always

was barely a

her. The severely injured were discarded as easily as the

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