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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not hearing his heart

looked at me. “You…you changed me.” He said, and

will to live again. I had built walls around my heart to not let anybody come near me. But you…my little

rather than words. He pushed the hair sticking

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

just admitted he loved me in his own way. But I wanted more of

him.

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

“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 lose you, too.

“We both saw how

the first signs of relief cross his features.

to her own daughter, Zee. I cannot bear to see something happen to you. I promised you the truth and

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

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show of being cold and unreachable, but I could not have

so I knew how that felt. But I had not seen the light in her eyes dim as I held her,

to live, Zee. I don’t deserve you

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 hold back any longer. The fact that he had been living with so much burden

was not his fault that Aislynn died,

living with a

all his life.

I knew why he would laugh cruelly when Drusilla or anybody else h cruelly when Drusilla or anybody else spoke about fate. He never really worshiped the Moon

been created by and left to rot. How could Selene do this to

our Goddess

my life and worshiped her, thought of her as my own mother. There were countless nights I would keep staring outside

what Callahan went through, that belief in the Moon Goddess was shaken. I did not know what to think of her anymore. Not that she would care. She had left

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