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.”

the secrets he was uncovering? An attempt to hide his

let out a sigh.

left from “The First Children’, so

calculate.

expressions, he

everyone I knew died. Well, most of them. I did not exactly keep track of the

hands coiled

“You are immortal?”

with a

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

mane, but resisted. I could not distract him right now. Or myself. I did not know when

word he spoke was like a self-inflicted wound. The more I asked, the more his cool facade seemed

this burden for years. Not many know why I am cursed or what exactly happened

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 of my assumption.

believe the same thing, that some witch cursed

You told me that 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

“Because 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

at him in

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

and night to find a cure and you hide such a huge

my hand and shook me, as

not tell them the truth and see them die. I am selfish, Zee. I have been the reason for

the way 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

would keep fighting and the pile of dead bodies

was barely a whisper.

severely injured were discarded as easily as the dead and she kept creating more lycans than tending to

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