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.

my upper lip curling back to reveal a row of sharp teeth. There was

being cornered for bloodsport. If Mila wanted a gory

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

I didn't want to kill.

from fur as the bear whirled away

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

charged again instantly, his maw wide open and dripping

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 while animalistic bellows

screeched. "Blood!

tang coating my muzzle until I could

struggled for what felt like hours, both of us now gushing what felt like rivers of blood from deep lacerations.

could not yield; one misstep meant disembowelment by the tireless beast intent on destroying me. And if

be the one who destroyed him

prodded at my overflowing fury: "Fight

carry it skidding past me. Before it could

shred between my canines. The grizzly's choked bellows rang out, matching the spectators' fevered screams...

knew I had survived the impossible clash. But at a

of me

my palms. What little strength I had was gone now; my wolf was spent. The cries of the crowd faded into a

I needed

man splayed out on the tiles. Of course this was no regular

stared lifelessly back at me, his body destroyed beyond all belief by my unwilling attacks. Hot revulsion bubbled up in my throat as I stared into those lifeless, wild

them, although I didn't know what it was; but something

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