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.”

being cheeky? Was that a way to show how unbothered he was with the secrets he was uncovering?

let out a sigh.

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

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

my perplexed expressions,

I am the unlucky one who survived while everyone I knew died. Well, most of

said, as his hands coiled

“You are immortal?”

with a disbelieving look.

what I have been telling you.” He sighed again and raked a hand through his hair, letting his long hair fall to

distract him right now. Or myself. I did not know when he would open up again if I did what my heart wanted me to do to him. With him.

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

have been living with this knowledge, this burden for years. Not many know why I am cursed or what exactly happened all those years ago. I believe you are the first one

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

Dru? How about Matteo and Elijah?” I asked. They had been living with him for years and were his loyal warriors and

thing, that

how dejected they feel to not

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 night to help them find a cure

stare at him in shock.

wildest. imagination. At this

She sees flashes of things revolving around you…..why did you never tell her? She works day and night to find a cure and you hide such a huge secret from her, from your loyal

me, as if to pull me

see them die. I am selfish, Zee. I have been the reason for countless deaths, and I

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

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

was barely a whisper.

for her. The severely injured were

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