Chapter 116 She is mine
"I am observing you, Ezra. Watching every move, every breath," Orion’s voice was a low vibration that seemed to rattle the very glass in the windows. "I will not allow you to lay a single finger on my Esperanza."
Orion’s hands curled into white-knuckled fists, the knuckles popping like small gunshots in the quiet room.
Ezra didn't flinch. He leaned back, his posture insultingly relaxed. "Who said she is your Esperanza?"
Orion stood abruptly, his chair screeching against the floorboards. The air pressure in the room shifted instantly a heavy, suffocating weight that smelled of ozone and scorched earth. Rage burned in his eyes, a golden flicker that threatened to spill over.
But Ezra only smirked, a slow, jagged expression that didn't reach his cold eyes. "She said..."
The words hung in the air like a guillotine blade. Silence rushed into the room, thick and frozen. Orion didn't move; he looked like a statue carved from granite, his gaze pinning Ezra to the spot with lethal intensity. He was waiting for the lie, waiting for the punchline, but Ezra’s expression remained horribly confident.
"She told me she is going to be mine forever," Ezra continued, his voice dropping to a silk-smooth whisper. "Her words, Orion. Not mine. She promised me the eternity you think you own."
Orion spat on the floor, the sound sharp and disgusted. His power began to leak from him in visible waves, blurring the air around his shoulders.
"You should zip it," Orion hissed, his voice trembling with the effort of not tearing the building down. "You forget who I am. You forget what I can do. I can reach inside you and snatch your powers with a single stroke. I can leave you hollow, disabled, and crawling in the dirt forever. I would make you a ghost in your own skin."
Ezra’s smirk didn't fade. If anything, it stretched wider, becoming a feral grin. He leaned forward, right into the heat of Orion’s fury.
"Then do it," Ezra dared him, his voice laced with venom. "Strip my power. Make me a beggar. But you’ll only be proving her right—that you’re the monster she needs to escape."