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 acting like he did

out a sigh.

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

to calculate. My brain was trying to

expressions, he added,

of 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

as his hands coiled into

“You are immortal?”

a disbelieving look.

have been telling you.” He sighed again and raked a hand through his hair, letting his

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

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

Not many know why I am cursed or what exactly happened all those years ago. I believe you

my expressions had been any different for the past thirty

How about Matteo 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

same thing, that some witch cursed And

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 follow false

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

could only stare at him in shock.

my wildest. imagination. At this point, I was just blabbering things that popped up in my

revolving around you…..why did you never tell her? She works day and night to find a cure and you hide such a huge secret from

shook me, as if to

Zee. I have been the

on mine. I saw the way his face looked more and more troubled. He got up from the chair and walked

would keep fighting and the pile of dead bodies always kept increasing. Selene…she was obsessed with taking Mirabel down, but Mirabel’s witches and wizards had

My voice was barely a whisper.

about those who died fighting for her. The severely injured were discarded as easily as the dead and she

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