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.

reveal a row of sharp teeth. There was only one hope of survival

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

its enormous claws. Then, I leaped with my fangs bared, aiming to grapple the bear's vulnerable throat and end this

I

inch from fur as the bear

my shoulder, hurling me across the blackened floor. Agonized gasps echoed from the spectators above, but

wide

flurry of claws and fangs, offense versus defense in a frenzy to

"Blood! Bathe the

black obsidian tiles, its metallic tang coating my

like hours, both of us now gushing what felt like rivers of blood from deep lacerations.

I could not yield; one misstep meant disembowelment by the tireless beast intent on destroying me. And if I had any chance, even a flicker of a chance,

to be the one who destroyed him

writhing chaos, Mila's piercing cries prodded at my overflowing fury:

it skidding past me. Before it could regain balance I seized its exposed nape, clamping down with an immense strength fueled entirely by nothing

bear's hide tore easily within my jaws. I felt its sinew shred between my canines. The grizzly's choked bellows rang out, matching the spectators' fevered

raggedly, I knew I had survived the impossible clash. But at a devastating cost that was now carved into my soul forever. I had killed in the most primal, savage

part of me had

my knees, the tiles warm and damp with blood now beneath my palms.

I needed to see

tiles. Of course this was no regular bear; he had been a shifter, just like me.

vacant jade eyes stared lifelessly back at me, his body destroyed beyond all belief by my unwilling attacks. Hot revulsion bubbled up in my throat as I stared

of them, although I didn't know what it was; but something in me roiled as I saw it, and suddenly,

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