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.”

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

let out a

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

I did not want to calculate. My brain was trying

my perplexed expressions,

earth. I am the unlucky one who survived while everyone I knew died. Well, most of them. I did not

said, as his hands coiled into fists.

“You are immortal?”

asked with a disbelieving

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

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

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

been living 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 first

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

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

same thing,

they feel to not

I cannot tell 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

stare at

imagination. At this point,

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

shook me, as if

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

his face looked more and more troubled. He got up from the chair and walked towards the side table, grabbed a bottle of whisky and poured some for himself into

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 Mirabel’s

voice was barely a

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

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