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

out a

“The First Children’, so

to calculate. My brain was trying to process a

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 not exactly keep track of the new lycans that Selene kept creating to

hands coiled into fists.

“You are immortal?”

asked with a disbelieving look.

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

urge to touch the hair and rake my fingers through that silky mane, but resisted. I could not distract him right now. Or myself.

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

know why I am cursed or what exactly happened all

revealed, and I looked at him with a look of pure surprise. Not that my expressions had been any different for the past thirty minutes

been 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

the same thing, that some witch cursed

You told me that they keep looking for a solution and you know how dejected they feel to not be able to

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 to help them find a cure for

at him in

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

flashes of things revolving around you…..why did you never tell her? She works day and night to find a cure and you hide such a huge secret

me, as if to pull

am selfish, Zee. I have been

and more troubled. He got up from the chair and

We would keep

was barely

died fighting for her. The severely injured were discarded as easily as the dead and she kept creating more lycans than tending to those

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