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 and get

benefit of the doubt, even when they didn't deserve it. It was one of the things that I loved most

take Mila out, and I was the fist that would

three candidates for assassins once our training was finished. Despite being the Alpha of our ragtag

so, I would train day in and day out, relentlessly, until

rage.

for

attention over the flurry of my fists beating against the punching bag. I stopped, my body caked in sweat, and

table and wiped my sweat away with my towel. "Not when our official training starts in

on the

than we realize," I said. "Are you

"As I'll ever be."

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