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.”

unbothered he was with the secrets he was uncovering? An attempt to hide his true grief and emotions by acting like he did

out a

the only one left from “The First Children’,

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

my perplexed expressions, he added,

of the living creatures walking this earth. I am the unlucky one who survived while everyone I knew died. Well, most of them. I did not exactly keep track of the new lycans

said, as his hands coiled

“You are immortal?”

asked with a disbelieving

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

to 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 up again if I did what my heart wanted

cool facade seemed to be slipping away. It was visible in his body language, though he tried to maintain

for years. Not many know why I am cursed or what exactly happened all those years ago. I believe you are the first one I opened up to.”

expressions had been any different for the past thirty minutes or so since he started speaking.

years and were his loyal

They all believe the same thing, that some witch

you know how dejected they feel to not be able to help you. So

his 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 cure for me is the one who put

stare at him in

I had learned about him, this was beyond my wildest. imagination. At this

her? She works day and night to find a cure and you hide such a huge secret from her,

as if to pull me to my senses.

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 to live with the thought of causing them harm. I would not be able

more and more troubled. He got up from the chair and walked towards the side table, grabbed a bottle of whisky and

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 obsessed with

voice was barely

who died fighting for her. The severely injured were discarded as easily as the dead and she kept creating more lycans than tending to

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