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.

and I gripped his shirt tightly, coiling my hands around him.

rhythm of his heartbeat calm my nerves. I

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

the 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 by brick.”

kissed his chest, letting my actions speak rather than words. He pushed the hair sticking to my temples behind and wiped the tears with the pad of his thumbs.

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

to him. He had just admitted he loved me in his own way. But I wanted more of this, more of him.

he wanted me, and loved me with the same ferocious intensity I did, I would shamelessly take it.

not sure if you would stay with me till the end. The pain of losing Aisy still haunts me to this day. And

through the tears. “We both saw how good that

I saw the first signs of relief cross his

showed you what happened to her own daughter, Zee. I cannot bear to

and I saw the way he gasped. This was my Callahan.

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

knew how that

live, Zee. I

not protect Aisy and…and I attacked you, too. That is why I was not letting you become my anchor. I feel…I feel I will

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

was not his fault that Aislynn died, and he has been living with a tremendous amount

anybody else spoke about

believed in God. But he had been created by and left to

nights I would keep staring outside the window, looking at the moon and wondering if she was listening to me, if she was paying