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

let out a

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

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

my perplexed expressions,

earth. I am the unlucky one who survived while everyone I knew died. Well, most

his hands coiled into

“You are immortal?”

with a disbelieving look.

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

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

was pained, and every word he spoke was like a self-inflicted wound. The more I asked, the more his cool facade seemed to be slipping away.

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

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

Dru? How about Matteo and Elijah?” I asked. 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 the exact

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

me that they keep looking for a solution and you know how dejected they feel to not be able to help you. So why do you let them

curse forbade me to tell anybody anything. And think about it, Zee. What should I tell them? That their precious Selene cursed

at him in

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

never tell her? She works day and night to find a cure and you hide such a huge secret from her, from

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

it would mean their death. I could not tell them the truth and see them die. I am selfish, Zee. I have been

up from the chair and walked towards the side table, grabbed a bottle of whisky and

all around me. We would keep fighting and the

was

injured were discarded as

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