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.”

secrets he was uncovering? An attempt to hide his true grief and emotions

out a sigh.

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

not want to calculate. My brain was trying to

expressions, he added,

the unlucky one who survived while everyone I knew died. Well, most of them. I did not exactly keep track of the new lycans that Selene kept creating to add numbers

hands

“You are immortal?”

a disbelieving

He sighed again and raked a hand through his hair, letting his long hair fall

the urge 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

more I asked, the more his cool facade seemed to be slipping

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

my expressions had been any different for

and were his loyal warriors and friends. Surely, I thought, he must have told them. But his answer was

the same thing, that

why? You told me that they keep looking for a solution and you know how dejected they feel to not

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 me

only stare at him in shock.

beyond my wildest. imagination.

never tell her? She works day and night to find

grabbed my hand and shook me, as if to pull

not tell them the truth and see them die. I am selfish, Zee. I have been the reason for countless deaths, and I

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

massacre all around me. We 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

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

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