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.”

secrets he was uncovering? An attempt to hide his true grief and

out

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

want to calculate. My brain

expressions, he

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

hands coiled into fists.

“You are immortal?”

a disbelieving

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

right now. Or myself. I did not know when he would open up again if I did what my heart

was like a self-inflicted wound. The more I asked, the more his cool facade seemed to be slipping away.

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

a look of pure surprise. Not that my expressions had been any

Matteo and Elijah?” I 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, that some witch cursed And I let

feel to not be able to help you. So why do you let them

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 me

could only stare at him in

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

you never tell her? She works day and night to find a cure and you hide such a

grabbed my hand and shook me, as if to

listening. I said the curse forbid me to 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 with that guilt every day. I cannot bear to live with the thought of causing them harm. I would not be able to forgive myself if anything happened

forehead on mine. I saw the way his face looked more and more troubled. He got up from the

forever. Those were the dark days and there was nothing but blood and massacre all around me. We would

was barely a

about those who died fighting for her. The severely injured were discarded as easily as the dead and she

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