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.”

show how unbothered he was with the secrets he was uncovering? An attempt to hide his true grief and emotions by

out a sigh.

left from “The First Children’, so you

to calculate. My brain was trying to process a lot

perplexed expressions,

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 our army.”

his hands coiled into

“You are immortal?”

asked with a disbelieving

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

the urge to touch the hair and rake my fingers through that silky mane, but resisted. I could not distract him right now. Or myself. I did not know when he would open up again

wound. The more I asked, the more his cool facade seemed to be slipping away. It was visible in his body language, though

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

a look of pure surprise. Not that my expressions had been any different for the past thirty minutes or so since he

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

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

feel to not be able to help

And think about it, Zee. What should I tell them? That their precious Selene cursed me? Should

could only stare at

was beyond my wildest. imagination. At this point, I was just

She sees flashes of things revolving around you…..why did you never tell her? She works day and night to find a cure and you hide such a huge

as if to

I am selfish, Zee. I have been the reason for countless deaths, and I live with that guilt every day. I cannot bear to

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, grabbed a bottle of whisky and poured

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

was barely a whisper.

care about those who died fighting for her. The severely injured were discarded as easily as the dead and she kept creating more lycans than tending to

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