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.

of sharp teeth.

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

smoothly as the grizzly lunged at me, narrowly evading the kill-swipe of its enormous claws. Then, I leaped with my

instinct hijacked any rational thought-no, I didn't want to kill. This wasn't me...

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

my shoulder, hurling me across the blackened floor. Agonized gasps echoed from the spectators above, but there was no

bear charged again instantly, his maw wide open and dripping with

frenzy to simply survive. My strikes were fueled only by frantic desperation while

screeched. "Blood!

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

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 a chance, at getting

be the one who

writhing chaos, Mila's piercing cries prodded at my overflowing fury: "Fight

its enormous momentum carry it skidding past me. Before it could regain balance I seized its exposed nape, clamping down with an immense strength fueled

grizzly's choked bellows rang out, matching the spectators' fevered screams... And

sweat and gore. Heaving raggedly, I knew I had survived the impossible clash. But at a devastating cost that was now carved into my

me had loved

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

needed to

blurring 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 man under there, and I

destroyed beyond all belief by my

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

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