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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thought of not hearing his heart beat like this. He had

me.” He said, and I chuckled despite the tears streaming

will to live again. I had built walls around my heart to not let anybody

letting my actions speak rather than words. He pushed the hair sticking to my temples behind and

did it take 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. I plotted running away from him, hated him and bickered so much with him, called him names while he endured it silently.

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

him.

he wanted me, and loved

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

“We both

the first signs of relief cross

literally showed you what happened to her own daughter, Zee. I cannot bear to see something happen to you. I promised you the truth and I gave it to you.

fingers that were caressing my cheek and I saw the way he gasped. This was my Callahan. The Lycan King who was

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

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

live, Zee. I don’t deserve

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

with so much burden and did not have anybody to share with all

deserve this life. Nobody did. It was not his fault that Aislynn died, and he

living with a tremendous amount of

all his life.

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

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

our Goddess

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 to me, if she was paying attention to her neglected daughter.

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

would feel anything but devotion to the Moon Goddess. But I guess now she did not have one more ardent believer of