Chapter 0699

Enzo

My eyes locked onto the enormous bear that was now thundering toward me, six-hundred pounds of snarling fury and dagger-length claws. The deafening roar that escaped the bear's throat almost seemed to shake the very stone beneath my paws.

Every instinct screamed to brace for impact as the grizzly charged at me.

"What the hell?" I thought to my wolf. "How—"

"Don't even question it," my wolf commanded. "Just don't get killed, dammit!"

My wolf was right; there was no time for speculation or awe. There was a wild beast hurtling toward me, reading to kill. Taking in a sharp breath, I lunged out of the way just before the bear collided with me. Up above, the vicious cries erupted from the crowd and caught my momentary attention.

"Rip his throat!"

"Flay the mongrel!"

I didn't know which one of us they were cheering for-me or the bear.

Nonetheless, I filtered out the madness of the crowd, my frenzied thoughts strategizing escape routes desperately feint left then sprint right for the gate, which was still open? No, I could never outpace this monster in this wide open

arena.

"Kill him! Kill him!" the crowd cheered menacingly.

to reveal a row of sharp teeth. There was only

for the kill, outrage roared through my soul at being cornered for bloodsport. If Mila wanted a gory

narrowly evading the kill-swipe of its enormous claws. Then, I leaped with my fangs bared, aiming to grapple the bear's

I didn't want to kill. This

an inch from fur as the bear whirled away

of the bear's enormous paw connected with my shoulder, hurling me across the blackened floor. Agonized gasps

instantly, his maw wide

offense versus defense in a frenzy to simply survive. My strikes were fueled only

the crowd screeched. "Blood! Bathe

soon slicked the black obsidian tiles, its metallic tang coating my

struggled for what felt like hours, both of us now gushing what felt like rivers of blood from deep lacerations. My vision swam as the pain mounted

disembowelment by the tireless beast intent on destroying me. And if I had any chance, even a flicker of a chance, at getting out of here and

be the one

overflowing fury: "Fight for me!" she cried out. "Prove

carry it skidding past me. Before it could regain balance I seized its exposed nape, clamping down

The grizzly's choked bellows rang out, matching the spectators' fevered screams... And then its immense body crashed down, twitching before it finally

impossible clash. But at a devastating cost that was now carved into my soul forever. I

me had loved

back into my human form and fell to my knees, the tiles warm and damp with blood now beneath my palms. What little

needed to

until it became a bloodied naked man splayed out on the tiles. Of course this was no regular bear; he had been a shifter, just like me. There was a man under there, and I had taken his

all belief by my

know what it was; but something in me roiled as I saw it, and suddenly,

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