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.”

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

out a

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

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

my perplexed expressions, he

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

hands coiled

“You are immortal?”

with a

wish you paid more attention to what I have been telling you.” He sighed again and raked a

fingers through that silky mane, but resisted. I could not distract him right now. Or myself.

The more I asked, the more his cool facade seemed to be slipping away. It was

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

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

Matteo and Elijah?” I asked. They had been living with him for years and were his loyal warriors and friends. Surely, I thought, he

them. They all believe the same thing, that some

they feel to not be able to

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 is the one who put me in such peril?”

stare at him in

was beyond my wildest. imagination. At

She sees flashes of things revolving around you…..why did you never tell her? She works day and

and shook me, as if to pull me

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

more and more troubled. He got up from the chair and walked towards the side table, grabbed a

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 and wizards had something we didn’t.”

voice was barely a whisper.

died fighting for her. The severely injured

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