Chapter 81. Leaving the Curse

Sebastian

‘She did not want me to know about our child…’

‘She thought I’d put our baby through the same tortures Elijah put me through and make them the same as me.’

Every time the truth crossed my mind, somewhere in the depth within, I was pulling away from the shield of my curse that I’d thought of as my savior. I slowly began to realize that the tough seal was already no longer there—the warmth of Athena’s touch had weakened the grip long ago but it was me who had held onto it.

There was an abrupt rise in my pulse rate, my loudly beating heart fought hard to get through the retraction of the curse, my lungs were on the brink of collapse and my eyes looked everywhere despite knowing that she wasn’t here—I was dying.

Or maybe, this death was not mine. It was of the person who I had made myself. Either way, the pain was mine to bear. The fight was mine to fight and win.

But my Athena has already gone far away from me. She detached me from h