Found by the Lycan King

Chapter 131

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 like he did

let out a

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

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

my perplexed expressions, he added,

living creatures walking this earth. I am the unlucky one who survived while everyone I knew died. Well, most of them. I did

his hands coiled into

“You are immortal?”

a

and raked a hand through his hair, letting his long hair fall to the sides in

the urge to touch the hair and rake my fingers through that silky mane, but resisted. I could not distract him right now. Or myself. I did not know when he would open

cool facade seemed to be slipping away. It was visible in his body language, though he tried to maintain a neutral tone.

cursed or what exactly happened all those years ago. I believe you are the first one I opened up

look of pure surprise. Not that my expressions had been any different for the past thirty minutes or so

loyal warriors and friends. Surely, I thought, he must have told them. But

them. They all believe the same thing, that

to not be able to help you. So why

should I tell them? That their precious Selene cursed me? Should I tell them that the Goddess they pray

stare at him

wildest. imagination.

her? She works day and night to find a

shook me, as if to

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

and more troubled. He got up from the chair and walked towards the side table, grabbed a bottle of whisky and poured some for

have not spoken about 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

My voice was

those who died fighting for her. The severely injured were discarded as easily as the dead and she kept creating more lycans than tending to

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