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.”

was with the secrets he was uncovering? An attempt to hide his true grief

let out a sigh.

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

want to calculate. My brain was trying to process a lot at the

expressions,

knew died. Well,

his hands

“You are immortal?”

with a disbelieving look.

and raked a hand through his hair, letting his long

right now. Or myself. I did not know when he

The more I asked, the more his cool facade seemed to be slipping away. It was visible in his body language, though he tried to

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

of pure surprise. Not that my expressions had been any different for

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

of them. They all believe the same thing, that some witch cursed And I let

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

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

could only stare at him in shock.

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

around you…..why did you never tell her? She works day and night to find a cure and you

hand and shook me, as if to

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

mine. I saw the way his face looked more and more troubled. He got up from the chair and walked towards the side table, grabbed a bottle of whisky and poured

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 taking Mirabel down, but Mirabel’s witches and wizards had something

voice was barely a

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 she kept creating more lycans than tending to

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