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.”

a way to show how unbothered he was with the secrets he was uncovering? An attempt to hide his true grief and emotions

let out

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

not want to calculate. My

my perplexed expressions, he added,

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

hands coiled

“You are immortal?”

with a disbelieving

and raked a hand through his hair, letting his long hair fall to the sides in a messy

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

I asked, the more his cool facade

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

looked at him with a look of pure surprise. Not that my expressions had been any different for the past thirty minutes or so

Elijah?” I asked. They had been living with him for years and were his loyal

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.

Selene cursed me? Should I tell them that the Goddess they pray to day and night to help them find a cure

at

this was beyond my wildest. imagination. At this point, I was just

you never tell her? She works day and

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

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

mine. I saw the way his face looked more and more troubled. He got up from the chair and walked towards

around me. We would keep fighting and the

voice was

who died fighting for her. The severely injured were discarded as easily as the dead and she

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