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.

reveal a row of sharp teeth.

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

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

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

from fur

connected with my shoulder, hurling me across the blackened floor. Agonized gasps echoed

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

to simply survive. My

the crowd screeched. "Blood! Bathe

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

both of us now gushing what felt like rivers of 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 out

to be the one who destroyed him

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

enormous momentum carry it skidding past me. Before it could regain balance I seized its exposed nape, clamping

easily within my jaws. I felt its sinew shred between my canines. The grizzly's choked bellows rang out, matching the spectators' fevered screams...

clash. But at a devastating cost that was now carved into

of me

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

I needed to see

course this was no regular bear; he had been a shifter, just like me. There

back at me, his body destroyed beyond all belief by my unwilling attacks. Hot revulsion bubbled up in my

although I didn't know what it was; but something in me roiled as

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