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.

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

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

kill-swipe of its enormous claws. Then,

thought-no, I

shut an inch from fur as

of the bear's enormous paw connected with my shoulder, hurling me across the blackened floor. Agonized gasps echoed from the spectators above, but there was no time to check my battered

charged again instantly, his maw wide open and dripping with

followed blurred 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

crowd screeched. "Blood! Bathe the floors

slicked the black obsidian tiles, its metallic tang coating my muzzle until I could no longer differentiate mine from my unwilling

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 beneath Edward's vile

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

I had to be the

the writhing chaos, Mila's 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 could regain balance I seized its exposed nape, clamping down with an immense

The grizzly's choked bellows

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

part of me had

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 faded into

I needed to

tiles. Of course this was no regular bear; he had

by my unwilling attacks. Hot revulsion

was; but something in me roiled as I saw

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