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? An attempt to hide his true grief and emotions by

out a sigh.

the only one left from “The First Children’, so you have to

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

my perplexed expressions,

died. Well, most of them. I did not exactly

his hands coiled

“You are immortal?”

a disbelieving

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

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.

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

this knowledge, this burden for years. Not many know why I am cursed or what exactly happened all those years

at him with a look of pure surprise. Not that my expressions had been any different

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

They all believe the same thing,

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

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 they pray to day and

stare at him

this was beyond my wildest. imagination. At this point, I was just blabbering things that popped up in my mind.

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

as if to

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. I cannot bear to live with the thought of causing them harm. I would not be able to forgive myself

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

We would keep fighting and the pile of dead bodies always kept increasing. Selene…she was obsessed with taking Mirabel down,

My voice was

let out a humorless chuckle. “A protector, Selene did not care about those who died fighting for her. The severely injured were discarded as easily as the

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