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.”

unbothered he was with the secrets he was uncovering? An attempt to hide his true grief

let out

one left from “The First Children’, so you have to guess how

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

my perplexed expressions, he added,

knew died. Well, most of them. I did not exactly

as his hands coiled into

“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 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 know when he would open up again if I did what my

a self-inflicted wound. The more I asked, the more his cool facade seemed

have been living with this knowledge, this burden for years. Not many know why I am cursed or what exactly happened all those years ago. I

pure surprise. Not that my expressions had been

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 was

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

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 out.

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 help them find a cure for me is

could only stare at him in shock.

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

sees flashes 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

grabbed my hand and shook me, as if to pull

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

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

but blood and massacre all around me. We would keep fighting and the pile of dead bodies always kept increasing. Selene…she was obsessed with

voice was

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

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