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!"

echoed mockingly in my head. Mate? Revulsion and fury chumed in my stomach as the implications sank in. I already

I snarled. But she

recognize, turned into a sea of very 'human' faces. Their eyes glowed as they looked down at me

And then they spoke.

the queen and her mate!" the

and the 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

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

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

drums and pipes suddenly echoed from nowhere and everywhere at once. The misshapen congregation of people swayed and

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

to vomit. "No!" I growled, straining against the silver ropes

the ringing silence she called

and cries as the crowd

them, but the silver rope that they suddenly thrust around my neck made me yell out in searing pain, my limbs

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