Chapter 0726

Enzo

The leather punching bag felt like steel under my sore knuckles, but I kept punching. No matter how out of breath and tired I got, I couldn't stop. Not when something so important was on the horizon.

Mila.

It had been almost two weeks since our escapade in the dread queen's obsidian palace, and yet I still pictured every detail perfectly in my mind whenever I closed my eyes. I could see her face, the lines around her eyes when she grinned, the way her teeth seemed to flash when she laughed at our pain.

Everything. I remembered it all as clear as day, and I wouldn't stop remembering it until she laid dead at my feet.

Nina said that it was wrong to kill her. Nina and her kind heart, the one who always tried to see the good in everyone, questioned whether Aldric's decision to take Mila out was the right one.

said. "Maybe if we get her out of there

always wanted to give people the benefit of the doubt, even when they didn't deserve it. It

wasn't her decision to make. Aldric had made his choice to take Mila out, and I was the fist that would carry

that was my goal. Aldric had made it very clear that he would choose the ideal three candidates for assassins once our training was finished. Despite being the Alpha of our ragtag little pack, there was no guarantee that I would be one of his choices. Especially not after I had lost to him during

until my fists were bloody stumps and my heart was

rage.

for

of my fists beating against the punching bag. I stopped, my body caked in sweat, and turned to see Matt walking into the weight room-a small gym we had

away with my

down on the floor. "Two weeks. Feels like a lifetime,

up sooner than we realize," I said. "Are

"As I'll ever be."

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