Chapter 0690

Enzo

I scrambled to my feet, my palms scraping on the icy stone floor. The swirling portal had vanished, abandoning me alone in this strange place. Smooth obsidian walls surrounded me, broken only by a high, domed ceiling. There were no visible doors or windows in the expansive circular room.

Except, I wasn't alone. As I looked up, I saw them: the audience.

With growing unease, I slowly turned, taking in the faces that started at me from perches high above. Shadowy figures lurked around the room's perimeter, partially obscured by tall black pillars.

I inhaled sharply. The scents of multiple animals-but something more, something... wrong. These weren't just animals. They were shifters.

Mila smiled, baring a row of teeth that locked all too white in this dark place.

"Welcome, my subjects!" she called out theatrically, her voice booming and echoing through the high ceilings. "We have a very special guest tonight... my new mate!"

mockingly in my head. Mate? Revulsion and fury chumed in my stomach as the implications

I snarled. But she merely

of very 'human' faces. Their eyes

And then they spoke.

the queen and her

hairs on the back of my neck began to raise. This didn't make sense. I knew that there were different species of shifters out there, but there were a lot of them here. Way more than I knew existed, and all in one

over her head, while I looked on in disgusted shock. The people prostrated themselves, bowing

tear doctor of a hockey team, was some sort of barbarian queen? Where even was I? Was I even above ground?

pipes suddenly echoed from nowhere and everywhere at once. The misshapen congregation

"Mate... mate... mate..."

"No!" I growled, straining against the silver ropes still holding me in agony. We had to get away

music stopped. In the ringing silence she called out, "The claiming ceremony will occur at

cries as the crowd cheered. "For now, let us

flesh. I thrashed desperately against them, but the silver rope that they suddenly thrust around my neck made me yell out in searing pain, my limbs going

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