Chapter 0697

Enzo

I stirred sluggishly to the sound of iron groaning deafeningly in my ears. Blearily lifting my head up from the icy stone where I lay, I made out a petite silhouette entering my cell cautiously.

"Wake up, my lord," the girl, the same one from before, said softly. She kneeled down beside me, cautiously brushing a strand of hair out of my eyes. "It's time."

Growling, I reached for her wrist again-but she had learned her lesson the first time. She deftly leapt backwards like a cat. I let my hand fall back to the floor, weakened and searing in pain where the silver ropes still met my flesh.

"Just get it over with," I snarled.

Every bruised fiber of my being screamed at me to defy, and if I had any strength left, I certainly would fight tooth and nail. But hours upon hours of silver continuously leeching the life out of my body had reduced me to little more than a husk.

I didn't have the strength to resist as the small girl helped me slowly to my feet. We took a few shambling steps together before she pulled out a ring of intricate keys and unlocked the cell door with one of them. I blinked stupidly, swaying a bit where I stood. Freedom?

Was this a hallucination? One last cruel trick to break the last shred of my spirit before whatever Mila, the bloodied queen, had in store for me?

But no guards appeared from the shadows as she guided my faltering steps out into the corridor.

Still supporting most of my weight with a strength I didn't expect such a small girl to possess, the servant led us gradually up countless spiraling black stairs. I clung to consciousness, the last feeble spark inside of me raging relentlessly against whatever was going to happen to me.

"Almost there," the girl said.

I huffed. "Where are you taking me?"

ceremony, of course," she purred. "You'll be so

considered struggling. But all I could muster was a stagger in my footsteps, a momentary fraction of

sharp pricked into my lower spine then; a knife. I was so out of it I hadn't even realized that she

enormous

like an eternity spent below ground. I recoiled weakly, my arm flung up against the sudden sunlight

sunlight. Not really. It was just torches and braziers, blindingly bright like the sun after

below ground, and for all I knew, maybe I would

I saw her sitting on top of a dais at the end of the hall, up high above on a platform well outside of my reach a mass of emerald green silk and crimson

false hopes. My horrific fate was here, whatever it was.

servant who was supporting my slumped frame. I braced to collapse as

last I saw of her was a slender black tail; a cat

weight. I swayed gently, staring

silver ropes were gone. I had been

numb limbs. I curled and flexed my stiff fingers, a revelation slowly dawning as a presence flooded into my mind. She had cut me off from my wolf with the silver...

her," my wolf

my head back and allowed my wolf's ancient strength to flood into me, filling every cell. Flesh turned to

this half of myself

wild howl and charged at the mass of green and

swirling a glass of red wine in

Witness what?"

red nails tapping rhythmically against the armrest. "I see you've come back to your senses now. Feels

that I had entered through before was smooth

that it wasn't silver; maybe I could smash

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