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.”

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

let out a sigh.

First Children’,

to calculate. My brain was trying to process a lot at the moment.

expressions, he

am older than most of 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 of the new lycans that

his hands coiled into fists.

“You are immortal?”

with a

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

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

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

Not many know why I am cursed or what exactly happened all those years

revealed, and I looked at him with a look of pure surprise. Not that my expressions had been any

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 the exact opposite of

believe the same thing, that some witch cursed

for a solution and you know how dejected they feel to not be able to help you. So why do

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

only stare at him

imagination.

revolving around you…..why did you never tell her? She works day and night to find a cure and you

hand 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 the reason for countless deaths, and I live with that guilt every day.

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

all around me. We would keep fighting and the pile of dead bodies always kept increasing. Selene…she was obsessed with taking

My voice was barely a whisper.

fighting for her. The severely injured were

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