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.

to reveal a row of sharp teeth. There

grizzly bear whirled around closed in for the kill, outrage roared through my soul at being cornered for bloodsport. If Mila wanted a gory show of dominance from her 'chosen mate', then... she was going

of its enormous claws. Then, I leaped with my fangs bared, aiming to grapple the bear's vulnerable throat and end

I didn't want to kill. This wasn't

teeth snapped shut an inch from fur as the bear whirled away with astonishing

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

charged again instantly, his maw wide open and

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

screeched. "Blood!

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

blood from deep lacerations. My vision swam as the pain mounted beyond anything I had

And if I had any chance, even a flicker of a chance, at getting out of here and seeing

I had to be the

my overflowing fury: "Fight for me!"

it skidding past me. Before it could regain balance I seized

my jaws. I felt its sinew shred between my canines. The grizzly's choked bellows rang out, matching

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

me had loved

shifted back into my human form and fell to my knees, the tiles warm and damp with blood now beneath my palms. What

needed to see

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

lifelessly back at me, his body destroyed beyond all belief by my unwilling

didn't know what it was; but

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