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.”

a way to show how unbothered he was with the secrets he was uncovering?

let out

from “The First Children’, so you have to guess how old that makes me.”

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

expressions, he

I am the unlucky one who survived while everyone I knew died. Well, most of them. I did not exactly keep track of the

as his hands coiled

“You are immortal?”

with a disbelieving

sighed again and raked

could not distract him right now. Or myself. I did not know when he would

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 tried

this burden for years. Not many know why I am cursed or what exactly happened all those years ago. I believe you are the

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

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 thought, he must have told them. But his answer

thing, that some witch

know how dejected they feel to not be able to help you. So why do

What should I tell them? That their precious Selene cursed

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

her? She works day and night

as if to

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

forward 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

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

voice was barely a whisper.

“A protector, Selene did not care about those who died fighting for her. The severely injured were discarded as easily

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