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.”

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 not

out a sigh.

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

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

my perplexed expressions, he added,

I knew died. Well, most of them. I did not exactly keep track of the new lycans that Selene kept creating to add numbers to our army.”

said, as his hands

“You are immortal?”

a

you paid more attention to what I have been telling you.” He sighed again and raked a hand through

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

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 tried to maintain a neutral tone.

or what exactly happened all those years ago. I believe you are the first one

looked at him with a look of pure surprise. Not that my expressions had been any different for the past thirty minutes or so since

for years and were his loyal

all believe the same thing, that some witch cursed

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

his hand on 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 to day and night to

could only stare at him in shock.

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

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

hand and shook me, as if to pull me to my senses.

listening. 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 thought of causing them harm. I would not be able to forgive myself if anything happened to

up from the chair and walked towards the side table, grabbed a bottle of whisky and poured some for himself into a glass.

nothing but blood and massacre all around me. We would

voice was barely a

who died fighting for her. The severely injured were discarded as easily as the dead and she kept creating more lycans than tending to those who were injured.”

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