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.”
the secrets he was uncovering? An attempt to hide
out a sigh.
I am the only one left from “The First Children’, so you have
to calculate. My brain was trying to process a lot at the
expressions, he
this earth. I am the unlucky one who survived while everyone I knew died. Well,
hands coiled into fists.
“You are immortal?”
a
more attention to what I have been telling you.” He sighed again and raked a hand through his hair, letting his long hair
touch the hair and rake 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
a self-inflicted wound. The more I asked, the more his cool facade seemed to be slipping away. It was visible in his
been living with this knowledge, this burden for years. Not many know why I am cursed or what
a look of pure surprise. Not that my expressions had
loyal warriors and friends. Surely, I thought, he must have told them. But his answer was
They all believe the same thing, that
me that they keep looking for a solution and you know how dejected they feel to not
“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
could only stare at him in shock.
beyond my wildest. imagination. At
day and night to find
hand and shook me, as if to pull me to my senses.
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
He got up from the chair and walked towards the side table, grabbed a bottle of
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 pile of dead bodies always kept increasing. Selene…she was
was barely
about those who died fighting for her. The severely injured were discarded as easily as the
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