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 he did not care?

out

“The First Children’, so you have to

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

expressions, he

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 of the new lycans

hands coiled

“You are immortal?”

with a

you.” He sighed again and raked a hand through his hair, letting his long hair fall to the sides in a messy

Or myself. I

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

cursed or what exactly

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 speaking.

him for years and were his loyal warriors and friends. Surely, I thought, he

all believe the same thing, that some witch cursed

feel to not be able to help you.

slammed his 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

stare at him

was beyond my wildest. imagination. At this point, I was

She works day and night to

and shook me, as if to pull me

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 to

face looked more and more troubled. He got up from

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.

My voice was barely a

protector, Selene did not care about those who died fighting for her. The severely injured were

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