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?

out a sigh.

“The First Children’, so you have to

did not want to calculate. My brain was

perplexed expressions,

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

said, as his hands

“You are immortal?”

with a disbelieving

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 a messy way.

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

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

cursed or

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

and were his loyal warriors and friends. Surely,

believe the same thing, that some witch cursed And I

feel to not be able to help you. So why do you

That their precious Selene cursed me? Should I tell them that the Goddess they pray to day and night to help

at him in

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

of things revolving around you…..why did you never tell her? She works day and night to find a cure and you hide such a huge secret from her, from your loyal warriors.”

grabbed my hand and shook me, as

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

saw the way his face looked more and more troubled. He got up from the chair and walked towards

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

My voice was

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

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