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.”

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

let out a

First Children’, so

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

expressions, he added,

earth. I am the unlucky one who survived while everyone I knew died. Well, most of them. I did not exactly keep

as his hands coiled into fists.

“You are immortal?”

asked with a disbelieving

more attention to what I have been telling you.” He sighed again and raked a hand through his hair, letting his long

Or myself. I did not know when he

pained, and every word he spoke was like a self-inflicted wound. The more I asked, the more his cool facade seemed to be

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

They had been living with him for years and were his loyal warriors and friends. Surely, I thought, he must

same thing, that some witch cursed And I let them.”

a solution and you know how dejected they feel to not be

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

stare at him in

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

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 huge secret from her, from your loyal

shook me, as if

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 cannot bear

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

would keep fighting and the pile of dead bodies always kept increasing. Selene…she was obsessed with taking Mirabel down, but Mirabel’s witches and

My voice was barely

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

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