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

let out a sigh.

“The First Children’, so you

as saucers. I did not want to calculate. My brain

perplexed expressions,

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

as his hands coiled

“You are immortal?”

asked with a disbelieving look.

paid more attention to what I have been telling you.” He sighed again and raked a hand through his hair, letting his long hair fall to the sides in

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

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

why I am cursed or what exactly happened all those years ago. I

look of pure surprise. Not that my expressions had been any

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

the same thing, that

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

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 the Goddess they pray

only stare at him in shock.

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

around you…..why did you never tell her? She works day and

hand and shook me, as if to pull

I said 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 guilt every day. I cannot bear to live with the

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, grabbed a bottle of whisky and poured some for himself

and massacre all 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

voice was barely

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

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