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 his true grief and emotions by acting like he did not

let out

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

not want to calculate. My brain was trying to process

expressions, he

unlucky one who survived while everyone I knew died. Well,

said, as his hands

“You are immortal?”

with a disbelieving look.

have been telling you.” He sighed again and raked a hand through

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

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

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

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

loyal warriors and friends. Surely, I thought, he must have told

thing, that some

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

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 to help them find a cure for me is the one who put me

stare at him in shock.

beyond my wildest. imagination. At this point, I was just blabbering

her? She works day and night to find a cure and you hide such

me, as

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

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

around me. We would keep fighting and the pile of dead bodies always

My voice was barely

fighting for her. The severely injured

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