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.”

he suddenly being cheeky? Was that a way to show how unbothered he was with the secrets he was uncovering? An attempt to

let out a

Children’,

did not want to calculate. My brain was trying to process a lot at the moment.

expressions, he

I am the unlucky one who survived while everyone I knew died. Well, most of them. I did not exactly keep track

as his hands coiled into

“You are immortal?”

with a

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

could not distract him right now. Or myself. I did not know when he would open up again if I did what my heart wanted me to do to

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

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

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

asked. They had 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

same thing,

feel to not be able to help

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 to help them find a cure for

at

imagination. At this point, I was just blabbering things that popped

works day and night to find a

my hand and shook me, as if to pull me

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

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

not 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 bodies always kept

was barely

The severely injured were discarded as easily as

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