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.”

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

let out

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

saucers. I did not want to calculate. My

expressions, he added,

knew died. Well, most of them. I did not exactly keep track of the new lycans that

as his hands

“You are immortal?”

asked with a disbelieving

He sighed again and raked a hand through his hair,

mane, but resisted. I could not distract him right now. Or myself. I did not know when he would open up again if I

the more his cool facade seemed to be slipping away. It was visible in his body language, though he

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

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

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 the

of them. They all believe the same thing, that

why? You told me that they keep looking for a solution and you know how dejected they feel to not be able to

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

stare at him in

this was beyond my wildest. imagination. At this point, I was just

day and night

as if to pull me to my

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

up from the chair and walked

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 witches and wizards had

My voice was barely

severely injured were discarded as easily as

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