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.

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

head was resting on his 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

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

reason I found the will 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

chest, letting my actions speak rather than words. He pushed the hair sticking

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

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

realize just how much he wanted me, and loved me with the same

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,

both saw how

the first signs of relief cross his features.

happened to her own daughter, Zee. I cannot bear to

my Callahan. The Lycan King who was cold and cruel on the outside

knew he was only putting up a show of being cold and unreachable, but I could not have

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

to live, Zee. I don’t

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 not letting

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

not deserve this life. Nobody did. It was not his fault that Aislynn died, and he has

cruelly when Drusilla or anybody else h cruelly when Drusilla or anybody else spoke about fate. He never really worshiped the Moon Goddess either. I only thought he was an atheist at

in God. But he had been created by and left to rot. How could Selene do this to him?

keep staring outside the window, looking at the