Found by the Lycan King

Chapter 135

Zenovia

Pushing the hair away, he continued when I stepped back.

“So…it took me a while, but I realized I was not going to die no matter how much I fought and pushed myself. But those around me were dying…at an alarming rate. I had to change that. I could not save all of them but a few whom I could, I tried my best to care for them. Slowly, I found the survivors and gathered them to form a pack. I devoted my life to their betterment while silently hoping every day that I would not open my eyes the next morning. But guess what?”

He asked, smiling like a madman.

My heart broke to see him like this and I went towards him, trying to calm him down, but he stepped away again.

“I…I never fucking died. Aisy died, but I am still alive. And… I would not have wanted to live…until I found you.

Callahan said, the last four words leaving his mouth in a pained whisper. I felt as if somebody was squeezing my heart in a deathly grip and I could not breathe anymore.

This. This was his way of telling me that I mattered to him. That he found the will to live…because of me. He had never been good with words, but his admission told me I was not just a random girl crushing on him.

It told me that he felt something as well. And the burden of so many deaths, along with the guilt of staying alive with those memories, made him think he was unworthy of love.

I could not bear to see him so vulnerable.

“I would never let you die, Cal.” I began sobbing bitterly, and ran towards him, my hands holding him tightly. This time, he did not step away or push me back.

And I held onto him like he was the last breath of air I needed to survive.

heartbeat race, and I gripped his

of his heartbeat calm my nerves. I could not bear the thought of not hearing his heart beat like this. He had to live.

my face and looked at me. “You…you changed me.” He said, and I chuckled despite the tears streaming down my face like a river.

to live again. I had built walls around my heart to not let anybody come near

pushed the hair sticking to my temples behind and wiped

between sobs. I had been begging him to tell me everything from day one, yet he took so much time. I plotted running away from him, hated him

horribly guilty for everything I had done or said to him. He had just admitted he loved me in his own way. But

upon this chance of making him realize just how much he wanted me, and

The pain of losing Aisy still haunts me to this day. And I did not allow myself to fall for anyone. I was afraid I would lose you, too. So it was better to

the tears. “We both saw how

first signs of relief cross his

decision? Mirabel literally showed you what happened to her own daughter, Zee. I cannot bear to see something happen

his fingers that were caressing my cheek and I saw the way he gasped. This was my Callahan. The Lycan King who was cold

show of being cold and unreachable, but I could not have ever

I had lost my mother, so I knew how that felt. But I

to live, Zee.

he pulled it away and continued to talk. “I could not protect Aisy and…and I attacked you, too. That

he had been living with so much burden and did not have anybody

that Aislynn died, and he has been living with a tremendous amount

laugh cruelly when Drusilla or anybody else h cruelly when Drusilla or anybody else spoke about fate.

all men believed in God. But he had been created by and left to rot. How

and worshiped her, thought of her as my own mother. There were countless nights I would keep staring outside the window, looking at the moon and wondering if she was listening to me, if she was