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.

my heartbeat race, and I gripped his shirt tightly, coiling my

chest and I let the steady rhythm of his heartbeat calm my nerves. I could not bear the thought of not hearing his heart beat like this. He had to live. For me.

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

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 brick.”

pushed the hair sticking to my temples behind

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. I plotted running away from him, hated him and bickered so

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

of making him realize just how much he wanted

end. The pain of losing Aisy still haunts me to this day. And I did

tears. “We both saw how

saw the first signs of relief

you…are you still not second guessing your decision? Mirabel literally showed you what happened to her own daughter, Zee. I cannot bear to see something happen to you. I promised you the truth and I

cheek and I saw the way he gasped. This was my Callahan. The Lycan King who was cold and cruel on the outside but was a sweetheart on

was only putting up a show of being cold and unreachable, but I

seldom goes away. I had lost my mother, so I knew how that felt. But I had not seen the

don’t deserve to live, Zee. I don’t deserve

attacked you, too. That is why I was not letting you become my anchor. I feel…I feel I will not be able to do justice to you or your

that he had been living with so much burden and

died, and he has been living with a tremendous amount of guilt all his

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

by and left

praying to her all my life 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