Chapter 0709

Enzo

The gates rattled upward just as the silver ropes were cut from my hands and neck. Moments later, as I stumbled out into the dusty arena to battle one of my closest friends to please some bloodthirsty warrior queen, I felt my wolf begin to return to his usual strength.

"We should kill them," my wolf growled, bristling from days of being caged in silver. "Kill them all. Especially that bitch queen."

"I know you want to," I replied. "But we have to go through with this first. It's the only way for any of us to get out of here."

"And put our friend in danger? For what? The Dragon 'queen' didn't even make any promises."

I narrowed my eyes as I peered up at the jeering crowd. "Neither did I," I replied inwardly, raising my hands in a placating gesture. "I only said I would win the fight. I didn't say I would kill him."

the other gate raised; Luke stepped out a moment later, rubbing his wrists and looking

my energy toward him in a singular gaze, as if to say, "Follow my

almost imperceptibly. It was time for our plan to come to

form, my hackles raised and my lips curled to expose my deadly white fangs. The crowd

braced himself, blue sparks already dancing

bloodthirsty spectators. Especially for

the dark on this, just in case we got found out at any point. I wanted it to be believable if I wound up having to tell Mila that Luke and I planned this and

begin!" Mila's amplified voice shrieked out, wild and thirsty for gore.

It was time.

myself across the arena toward Luke, kicking up sand in my wake. He swept his sparking hand in an arc, prepared for

He went sprawling with a grunt but rolled swiftly back to

form; I couldn't actually injure him too badly at any point, especially not before the climax. And he had to always miss with his jolts of electricity. Just by a hair's breadth, of course. If

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