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: I needed to

at being cornered for bloodsport. If Mila wanted a gory show of dominance from her 'chosen mate', then... she was going

its enormous claws. Then,

I didn't want to

shut an inch from fur as the bear

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

again instantly, his maw wide

frenzy to simply survive.

"Blood! Bathe the

blood soon slicked the black obsidian tiles, its metallic tang coating my muzzle until I could

like rivers of blood from deep lacerations. My vision swam as the pain mounted beyond anything I had endured before even the torture beneath

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

I 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 worth,

Before it could regain balance I seized its exposed nape, clamping down with an

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

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

part of me had loved

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

needed to

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

belief by my

was; but something in me roiled as I saw it, and suddenly, recognition

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