Found by the Lycan King

Chapter 131

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.”

he was with the secrets he was uncovering? An attempt to hide his true grief and emotions by acting like he did not care?

let out a

First Children’, so you have to guess how old that makes

saucers. I did not want to calculate. My brain

my perplexed expressions, he

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

said, as his hands coiled

“You are immortal?”

a disbelieving look.

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 did not know when he would open up again if I did what

every word he spoke was like a self-inflicted wound. The more I asked, the more his cool facade seemed to be slipping away. It was visible in his body language, though he

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 one I

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

years and were his loyal warriors and friends. Surely, I thought,

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

looking for a solution and you know how dejected they feel to not be able to help you. So why do you let

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

stare at him

had learned about him, this was beyond my wildest. imagination. At this

day and night to find a cure and you

as if to pull

could not tell 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 every day. I cannot bear to live with the thought of causing them harm. I would not be able to forgive myself if anything

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

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 witches and wizards had

voice was barely

care about those who died fighting for her. The severely injured were discarded as easily as

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