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

out

am the only one left from “The First Children’, so you have to

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

my perplexed expressions,

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

his hands coiled into fists.

“You are immortal?”

asked with a

been telling you.” He sighed again and raked a hand through his hair, letting his long hair fall to the sides in a messy

but resisted. I could not distract him right now. Or myself. I did not know when he would open up again if I did

asked, the more his cool facade seemed

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

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

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

them. They all believe the same thing, that some witch

dejected they feel to not be able to help you. So why do you let them follow false leads?” I blurted

about it, Zee. What should I tell them? That their precious Selene cursed

could only stare at him

imagination. At this point, I

She works day and night to find a cure and you hide such a huge

and shook me, as if to pull me

am selfish, Zee. I have been the reason for countless deaths, and I live with that guilt every day. I cannot bear to live with the thought of causing them harm. I

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

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

voice was

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

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