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.”
that a way to show how unbothered he was with the secrets he was uncovering? An attempt to hide
out a
one left from “The First Children’, so you have to
calculate. My brain was trying to process
expressions,
died. Well, most of them. I
said, as his hands coiled
“You are immortal?”
a
more attention to what I have been telling you.” He sighed again and raked a hand through his hair, letting
I could not distract him right now. Or myself. I did not know when he would open
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 in his body language, though he tried to maintain
been living with this knowledge, this burden for years. Not many know why I am cursed or what exactly happened
with a look of pure surprise. Not that my expressions had been any different for the past thirty minutes or so since he
loyal warriors and friends. Surely, I thought, he must have told them. But his answer was the
them. They all believe the same thing, that
You told me that they keep looking for a solution and you know how dejected they feel to not be able to help you. So why do you let
What should I tell them? That their precious Selene cursed me? Should I tell them that the Goddess they pray to day
at him
had learned about him, this was beyond my wildest. imagination. At this point, I was just blabbering things that popped up in my mind.
her? She works day and night to find
hand and shook me, as if to
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,
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 himself into
Those were the dark days and there was nothing but blood and massacre all around me. We would keep fighting and
voice was
died fighting for her. The severely injured were discarded as easily as the dead and she kept
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