Found by the Lycan King

Chapter 131

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.”

secrets he was uncovering? An attempt

let out

one left from “The First Children’, so you have to guess how old that makes me.”

did not want to calculate. My brain was trying to process a lot at

my perplexed expressions,

the unlucky one who survived while everyone I knew died. Well, most of them. I did not exactly keep track of the new lycans that Selene kept creating to add numbers to our

as his hands

“You are immortal?”

with a

to what I have been telling you.” He sighed again and raked a hand through his

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

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

have been living with this knowledge, this burden for years. Not many know why I am cursed or what exactly happened all those years ago.

a look of pure surprise. Not that my expressions had been any

with him for years and were his loyal warriors and friends. Surely, I thought, he

all believe the same thing, that

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 follow false

hand on 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 to day and night to help them find a

at him in

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

never tell her? She works day and night to find a cure

shook me, as if to pull me to

curse forbid me to speak of the details. Telling 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

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

all around me. We would keep fighting and the pile of dead bodies always kept increasing. Selene…she was obsessed with taking Mirabel down,

was barely a whisper.

out a humorless chuckle. “A protector, Selene did not care about those who died fighting for her. The severely injured were discarded as easily as the

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