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.”

he was with the secrets he was uncovering? An attempt to

out

I am the only one left from “The First Children’, so you have to guess how old that makes me.”

grew as wide as saucers. I did not want to calculate.

expressions,

the living creatures walking this 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

said, as his hands coiled into fists.

“You are immortal?”

with a

been telling you.” He sighed again and raked

him right now. Or myself. I did

asked, the more his cool facade seemed to be slipping away. It was visible in his

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

expressions had been any different for the past thirty minutes or so since

asked. They had been living with him for years and were his loyal warriors and friends. Surely, I thought,

same thing, that some witch cursed And I let them.”

feel to not be able to help you. So why do you let them follow false leads?”

it, Zee. What should I tell them? That their precious Selene cursed me? Should I tell them that the Goddess they

stare at him in shock.

had learned about him, this was beyond my wildest. imagination. At this point, I was just blabbering

tell her? She works day and night to

me, as

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,

looked more and more troubled. He got up from the chair and walked towards the

and there was nothing but blood and massacre all around me. We would keep fighting and the pile

was barely a whisper.

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

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