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.

losing him made my heartbeat race, and I gripped his shirt tightly, coiling my

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

He said, and I chuckled despite the tears streaming down my face like a

to live again. I had built walls around my heart to not let anybody come near me. But you…my little kitten, you tore it down, brick by

hair sticking

so long to tell me all this?” I asked between sobs. I had been begging him to tell me everything from day one, yet he took so much time.

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

just how much he wanted me, and loved me with the same ferocious intensity I

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 make you

through the tears. “We both saw how good that plan turned out, right?”

first signs of relief cross his

own daughter, Zee. I cannot bear to see something happen to you. I

gasped. This was my Callahan. The

up a show of being cold and unreachable, but I could not have ever imagined the truth to be so

lost my mother, so I knew how that felt. But I had not

to live, Zee. I don’t deserve

finger on his lips to stop him from talking, but he pulled it away and continued to talk. “I could not protect Aisy and…and I attacked you, too. That is why I was

could not hold back any longer. The fact that he had been living with so much burden and did not have anybody to share

fault that Aislynn died, and he has been living

when Drusilla or anybody else spoke about fate. He never really worshiped

God. But he had been created by

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 paying attention to her