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

his chest and I let the steady rhythm of his heartbeat calm my nerves. I

“You…you changed me.” He said, and I

heart to not let anybody come near me. But

He pushed the hair sticking to

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

or said to him. He had just admitted he loved

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

losing Aisy still haunts

both saw how good

I saw the first signs of relief cross his features.

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

that were caressing my 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 the

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

I knew how that felt.

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

a 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 not letting you become my anchor.

he had been living with so much burden and did not have anybody to share with all this life

died, and he has been living with a tremendous amount

cruelly when Drusilla or anybody else h cruelly when Drusilla or anybody else spoke about fate. He never really worshiped the Moon Goddess either.

been created by and left to

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 and wondering if she