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.

back to reveal a row of sharp teeth. There

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

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

panicked instinct hijacked any rational thought-no, I

an inch from fur as the bear whirled away with

paw connected with my shoulder, hurling me across the blackened floor. Agonized gasps

again instantly, his maw wide

frenzy to simply survive. My strikes were fueled only by frantic desperation while animalistic

the crowd screeched. "Blood! Bathe the floors

metallic tang coating my muzzle until I could no longer differentiate mine from my

like hours, both of us now gushing what felt like rivers of blood from deep lacerations. My vision swam as the pain mounted beyond anything I had endured before even the torture

me. And if I had any chance, even a flicker of a chance, at getting

had to be the one who

writhing chaos, Mila's piercing cries prodded at my overflowing fury: "Fight for me!" she cried out. "Prove your

past me. Before it could

felt its sinew shred between my canines. The grizzly's choked bellows rang out, matching the spectators' fevered screams... And then its

backwards, half-blinded by sweat and gore. Heaving raggedly, I knew I had survived the impossible clash.

of me had loved

tiles warm and damp with blood now beneath my palms. What little strength I had was gone now; my wolf

needed to

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

vacant jade eyes stared lifelessly back at me, his body destroyed beyond all belief by my unwilling attacks. Hot

from the corners of them, although I didn't know what it was; but

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