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.

lip curling back to reveal a row of sharp teeth. There

bear whirled around closed in for the kill, outrage roared through my soul at being cornered for bloodsport. If Mila

lunged at me, narrowly evading the kill-swipe of its enormous claws. Then, I leaped with my fangs bared, aiming to grapple the bear's vulnerable throat and end

rational thought-no, I didn't want

shut an inch from fur as the bear whirled

the blackened floor. Agonized gasps echoed from the spectators above, but there was no time to check

bear charged again instantly, his maw wide open and dripping

in a frenzy to simply survive.

crowd screeched. "Blood! Bathe the floors

tang coating my muzzle until I

what felt like rivers of blood from deep lacerations. My vision swam as the pain

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

to be the one

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

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

my jaws. I felt its sinew shred between my canines. The grizzly's choked bellows rang out, matching the spectators' fevered screams... And then its immense body crashed down, twitching before it

released the broken neck and staggered backwards, half-blinded by sweat and gore. Heaving 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

part of me had loved

form and fell to my knees, the tiles warm and damp with blood now beneath my palms. What little strength I had was gone now; my wolf was spent. The cries

I needed to

me began to ripple, blurring 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

by my unwilling attacks. Hot revulsion bubbled up in my throat as I stared into those

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

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