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 he suddenly being cheeky? Was 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
out a sigh.
Children’, so you have to guess how old that makes me.”
as saucers. I did not want to calculate. My brain was trying to
perplexed expressions,
am older than most of the living creatures walking this earth. I am the unlucky one who survived while everyone I knew died. Well,
said, as his hands coiled into
“You are immortal?”
a
and raked a
now. Or myself. I did not know when he would
wound. The more I asked, the more his cool facade seemed to be slipping away. It
I am cursed or what exactly happened
of pure surprise. Not that my expressions had been any different for
his loyal warriors and friends. Surely, I thought, he must have told them. But his answer was the
them. They all believe the same thing, that some
keep looking for a solution and you know how dejected they feel to not be able to help you. So why do you let them follow
precious Selene cursed me? Should I tell them that the Goddess they pray to day and night to help them find a cure
only stare at him in shock.
was beyond my wildest. imagination. At this
day and night to find a cure
as if to pull me to my senses.
are not 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
more and more troubled. He got up from the chair and walked towards the side table, grabbed a bottle
nothing but blood and massacre all around me. We would
voice was barely a
died fighting for her. The severely injured were discarded as easily as the dead and she
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