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.”

was with the secrets he was uncovering? An attempt to hide his true grief and emotions by acting like he did

out

left from “The First Children’, so you have to guess how old

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

my perplexed expressions, he

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 add numbers to our army.”

hands coiled

“You are immortal?”

asked with a disbelieving look.

telling you.” He sighed again and raked a hand through his hair, letting

him right now. Or myself. I did

was 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 away. It was visible in his body language, though he

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

and I looked 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

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 the exact opposite of my assumption.

the same thing, that some witch

they feel to not be able to help you. So why

“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

at him

had learned about him, this was beyond my wildest. imagination. At this point, I was just blabbering things that popped up

works day and night to find a cure and you hide such a huge secret

my hand and shook me, as if to

see them die. I am selfish, Zee. I have been the

He got up from the

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 increasing. Selene…she was obsessed with taking Mirabel down, but Mirabel’s witches

voice was

her. The severely injured were

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