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 beat like this. He had

said, and I chuckled

had built walls around my heart to not let anybody come

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

me everything from day one, yet he took so much time.

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

him.

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

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

“We both saw how good that plan turned out,

saw the first signs of relief cross his features.

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.

way he gasped. This was my Callahan. The Lycan King who was cold and cruel on the outside but was a sweetheart

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being cold and unreachable, but I could not have ever imagined the truth to be so

pain that seldom goes away. I had lost my mother, so I knew how that felt. But I had not

don’t deserve to live, Zee. I don’t deserve you

but he pulled it away and continued to talk. “I could not protect Aisy and…and I attacked you, too. That is

been living with so much burden and did not

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

a tremendous amount of

all his life.

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

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

our Goddess

mother. There were countless nights I would keep staring outside the window, looking at the moon and wondering

shaken. I did not know what to think of her anymore. Not that she would care. She had left Callahan to rot for so many years and never thought of

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