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.”

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

out a sigh.

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

to calculate.

perplexed expressions,

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

hands coiled into

“You are immortal?”

with a

He sighed again and raked a hand through his hair, letting his long hair fall

the urge to touch the hair and rake my fingers through that silky mane, but resisted. I could not distract him right now. Or myself. I did not know when he would open up again if I did what

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 language,

or what exactly happened all those years ago. I believe you are the first one I opened

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

and Elijah?” I asked. They 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

believe the same thing, that some

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

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 for me is the one who

at

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

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

as if

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

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

and there 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

voice was barely a

a humorless chuckle. “A protector, Selene did not care about those who died fighting for her. The severely injured were

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