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.”

was with the secrets he was uncovering? An attempt

let out

only one left from “The First Children’,

grew as wide as saucers. I did not want to calculate.

perplexed expressions,

creatures walking this earth. I am the unlucky one who survived while everyone I knew died. Well, most of them. I

as his hands coiled

“You are immortal?”

a

you 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 sides in

I could not distract him right now. Or myself. I did not know when he would open up again if I did what my heart wanted

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

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

expressions had been any different for the past thirty minutes or so

They had been living with him for years and were his loyal warriors and friends. Surely, I thought,

all believe the same thing, that some witch cursed And

solution and you know how dejected they feel to not be able

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?

could only stare at him in shock.

imagination. At

and night to find a cure and you hide such a huge secret from her, from your

and shook me, as if to pull me to my

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

more troubled. He got up from the chair and walked towards the side table, grabbed

not spoken about all this in ages…or in forever. Those were the dark days and there was nothing but blood and massacre all around me. We would keep fighting and the

was barely

for her. The severely injured were discarded as easily as the dead and she kept creating more lycans

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