Chapter 136 – To Rule

• “Does…” I whisper, my eyes still fastened to Orion as my eyes move over him, feeling the powers that radiate from him now. “Does that mean you have all of the powers of Darkness too? From…from the wish?”
• “No,” Orion murmurs, looking down at his hands and flexing them, experimenting with the feel of his new magic. “That power died with him. The wish,” he says, glancing down at his kneeling bride, “was wasted, in that effect.”
• I smirk a little, glancing at my fellow Contestants, who still just stare over at us in shock, thinking that I’ll deal with them in a moment. I wave a hand, returning the voices that Laila took away, and they burst into whispers with each other.