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

let out a sigh.

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

I did not want to calculate. My brain was

expressions, he

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

said, as his hands coiled into

“You are immortal?”

with a disbelieving look.

you.” He sighed again and raked

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

like a self-inflicted wound. The more I asked, the more his cool facade seemed to be slipping away. It

why I am cursed or what

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

and were his loyal warriors and friends. Surely, I thought, he must have told

of them. They all believe the same thing, that some witch cursed And I let

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 false leads?” I blurted out.

the chair. “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 I tell them that

could only stare at him in shock.

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

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

my hand and shook me, as if to pull me

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

and placed his forehead on mine. I saw the way his face looked more and more troubled. He got up from the chair and walked towards the side table,

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

My voice was barely a

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

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