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.

grimaced, my upper lip curling back to reveal a row of sharp teeth. There

the kill, outrage roared through my soul at being cornered for bloodsport. If Mila wanted a gory show of dominance from her 'chosen mate',

its enormous claws. Then, I leaped with my fangs bared, aiming

any rational thought-no, I didn't want to

snapped shut an inch from fur as the bear whirled away

shoulder, hurling me across the

maw wide open and dripping with saliva. He was

into an endless flurry of claws and fangs, offense versus defense in a frenzy to simply survive. My strikes were fueled only by frantic desperation while

the crowd screeched. "Blood! Bathe

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

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

one misstep meant disembowelment by the tireless beast intent on destroying me. And if I had any chance, even a flicker of

to be the one

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

momentum carry it skidding past me. Before it could

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

and gore. Heaving raggedly, I knew I had survived the impossible clash.

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 strength I had was gone now; my wolf was spent. The cries of the crowd

needed to

ripple, blurring until it became a bloodied naked man splayed out on the tiles. Of course

lifelessly back at me, his body destroyed beyond all belief by my unwilling attacks. Hot revulsion bubbled up in

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

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