Chapter 136 The Reunion

• It wasn't fair how the world seemed to fall away when he spoke.
• The walls could've crumbled. The sky could've cracked open and swallowed the entire palace whole, and I wouldn't have noticed. Not when his voice was the only thing anchoring me to the moment. Mesmerizing and commanding in a way that everything else bent to accommodate it.
• I told myself it was just nerves or the gravity of this whole insane competition, ten supernatural women and one man, making me feel like I was coming undone.