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?

out a sigh.

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

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

expressions, he

I am the unlucky one who survived while everyone I knew died. Well, most of them. I did

hands coiled

“You are immortal?”

asked with a disbelieving look.

been telling you.” He sighed again and raked

hair and rake my fingers through that silky mane, but resisted. I could not distract him right now. Or myself.

more his cool facade

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

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, I thought, he must have told them.

same thing, that some witch

know how dejected they feel to not be able to help you. So why do you let them follow false leads?” I blurted out.

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?

only stare at him

beyond my wildest. imagination. At this point, I

gets visions. She 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

hand and shook me, as if

them the truth and see them die. I am selfish, Zee. I have been the reason for countless deaths, and I live

leaned forward and placed his forehead on mine. I saw the way his face 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 into

We would keep fighting and the pile

voice was barely a whisper.

not care about those who died fighting for her. The severely injured were discarded as easily as the dead and she kept creating more lycans than tending to

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