Found by the Lycan King by Natalie Winter

Chapter 135

Zenovia

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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.

The fear of losing him made my heartbeat race, and I gripped his shirt tightly, coiling my hands around him.

My head was resting on his chest and I let the steady rhythm of his

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the thought of not hearing his heart beat like this. He had to live. For me.

“You…you changed me.” He said, and I chuckled despite the tears

built walls around my heart to not let anybody come near

speak rather than words. He pushed the hair sticking to my temples behind and wiped the tears with the

day one, yet he took so much time. I plotted running away from him, hated him and bickered so much with him, called him names while he endured

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

him.

upon this chance of making him realize just how much he wanted me, and loved me with the same

his lips trembled. “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 would

through the tears. “We both saw how good

saw the first signs of relief cross

still not second guessing your decision? Mirabel literally showed you what happened to her own daughter, Zee. I cannot bear to see

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

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

wounds and pain that seldom goes away. I had lost my mother, so I knew how that felt. But I had

live, Zee. I

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. I feel…I feel I will not be able to do

so much burden and did not have anybody to share with all this life was heart

did not deserve this life. Nobody did. It was not

a tremendous amount of guilt

all his life.

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

all men believed in God. But he had been created by and left to rot. How could Selene do this

our Goddess

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 was listening

of her anymore. Not that she would care. She had

to the Moon Goddess. But I guess now she did not have one more ardent believer