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.”

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

out a

“The First Children’, so you have

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

perplexed expressions, he

survived while everyone I knew died. Well, most of them. I did not exactly keep track of the new lycans that Selene

hands coiled into fists.

“You are immortal?”

a disbelieving

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

resisted. I could not distract him right now. Or myself. I did not know when

was pained, and every word he spoke was 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

Not many know why I am cursed or

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

and were his loyal warriors and friends. Surely, I thought, he must have told them. But his answer was the exact opposite of my assumption.

all believe the same thing, that some witch

that they 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 false leads?” I blurted

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

stare at him in

I had learned about him, this was beyond my wildest. imagination. At this point, I was

did you never tell her? She works day and night

my hand and shook me, as if to pull me

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

saw the way his face looked more and more troubled. He got up from the

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

My voice was barely

severely injured were discarded as

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