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.

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

heartbeat calm my nerves. I could not bear the

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

heart to not let anybody come near me. But you…my

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

you 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.

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

of making him realize just how much he wanted me, and loved me with the same ferocious intensity I did, I

“Because I was not sure if you would stay with me till the end. 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

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

the first

cannot bear to see something happen to you. I promised you the truth and I

way he gasped. This was my Callahan.

unreachable, but I could not have ever imagined the truth to

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

Zee. I don’t

talk. “I could 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 not be able to do justice

not hold back any longer. The fact that he had been living with so much burden and did

life. Nobody did. It was not his fault that Aislynn died, and he has been living with a tremendous amount of guilt

laugh cruelly when Drusilla or anybody else h cruelly when Drusilla or anybody else spoke

by and left to rot. How could Selene do

as my own mother. There were countless nights I would keep staring outside the window, looking