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.”

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

let out

First Children’, so you have to guess how old that makes me.”

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

expressions, he added,

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 Selene kept creating to add numbers to our army.”

hands coiled into fists.

“You are immortal?”

with a disbelieving

telling you.” He sighed again and raked a hand through his hair, letting his long hair fall

him right now. Or myself. I did not know when he

I asked, the more his cool facade seemed to be slipping away. It was visible in his body language, though he tried

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

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

How about Matteo and Elijah?” I asked. They had been living with him for years and were his loyal warriors and friends. Surely, I thought, he must

They all believe the same thing, that some witch cursed And

to not be able to help

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 the

at him

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

visions. She sees flashes of things revolving around you…..why did you never tell her? She works day and night to find

grabbed my hand and shook me, as if to pull me to my senses.

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 if anything happened to my people.”

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

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,

voice was barely a whisper.

her. The severely injured were discarded as easily as the dead and she

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