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 was only one hope

cornered for bloodsport. If Mila wanted a gory show of dominance from her

claws. Then, I leaped with my fangs bared, aiming to grapple the

I didn't want

snapped shut an inch from fur

yelped as another brutal swat of the bear's enormous paw connected with my shoulder, hurling me across the blackened floor. Agonized gasps echoed from the

charged again instantly, his maw wide open and dripping with saliva. He was

offense versus defense in a frenzy to simply survive. My strikes were fueled only by frantic desperation while animalistic bellows assaulted me from

crowd screeched. "Blood! Bathe the floors

they wanted; blood soon slicked the black obsidian tiles, its metallic tang coating my muzzle until I could no longer

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

meant disembowelment by the tireless beast intent on destroying me. And if

to be the one

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

its enormous momentum carry it skidding past me. Before it

canines. The grizzly's choked bellows rang out, matching the spectators'

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

of me had loved

palms. What little strength I had was gone now; my wolf was

needed to see

to ripple, blurring until it became a bloodied naked man splayed out on the tiles. Of course this was no regular

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

from the corners 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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