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.”

to show how unbothered he was with the secrets he was uncovering? An attempt

out a

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

wide as saucers. I did not want to calculate. My brain was trying to process

expressions,

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

his hands coiled into

“You are immortal?”

asked with a disbelieving

raked a hand through his hair, letting his long hair fall to the sides in a

right now. Or myself. I did not know when he would open up again if

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

Not many know why I am cursed or what exactly happened all those years ago. I believe you are the first one I opened up to.”

I looked at him with a look of pure surprise. Not that my expressions had been any

Dru? How about Matteo and Elijah?” I asked. They had been living with him for years and were his loyal warriors and friends. Surely,

them. They all believe the same thing, that some witch

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

What should I tell them? That their precious Selene cursed me? Should I tell them that the Goddess they pray to

only stare at

imagination. At this

did you never tell her? She works day and night to find a cure and you hide such a huge secret from her, from

as if

the curse forbid me to speak of the details. Telling anyone about it would mean their death. I 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

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

all this in 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 bodies always kept

was barely

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

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