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.”

was he suddenly 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.

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

not want to calculate.

perplexed expressions, he

most of the living creatures walking this earth. I am the unlucky one who survived while everyone I knew died. Well, most of them. I did

said, as his hands coiled into

“You are immortal?”

asked with a disbelieving look.

sighed again and raked a hand through his hair,

fingers through that silky mane, but resisted. I could not distract him right now. Or myself.

more his cool facade seemed to be slipping away. It was visible in his body language, though he tried to maintain a neutral tone.

Not many know why I am cursed or what

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

years and were his loyal warriors and friends. Surely, I thought, he

same thing, that some

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?

stare at him in

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

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 warriors.”

my hand and shook me, as if to

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

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

all this in ages…or in forever. Those were the dark days 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 down, but

voice was barely a

for her. The severely injured were discarded as easily as the

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