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.”

with the secrets he was uncovering? An attempt to hide his true grief and emotions by acting like

let out a sigh.

“The First Children’, so you have to guess

I did not want to calculate. My brain was trying

perplexed expressions, he added,

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

hands coiled into fists.

“You are immortal?”

asked with a

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

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

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. It was visible in his body language, though he tried to maintain a neutral

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

and I looked at him with a look of pure surprise. Not that my expressions had been

years and were his loyal warriors and friends. Surely, I thought,

all believe the same thing,

you know how dejected they feel to not be able to help you. So why do you let

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

at him

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

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

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

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

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

was nothing but blood and massacre all around me. We would keep

was barely a

died fighting for her. The severely injured were discarded as easily as

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