CHAPTER 235 Wake up

  SOUNDTRACK: “Be a Hero” by Euphoria and Bolshiee.

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  ~ NATA LIE ~

  I stood alone on the dirt on the challenger’s side of the arena as the bleachers began to fill. At first it had been so heavily weighted in Rig’s favor because we’d notified the lower ranked wolves first, that I was gaining tentative hope that perhaps his father wouldn’t have the support we’d thought.

  But as time ticked and word began to spread, the steady trickle of wolves on the Alpha King’s side became a river, and then a flood.

  And my chest ached.

  I was shaking, but I couldn’t seem to stop. I couldn’t stop looking at the rows and rows of wolves on the other side of the arena and wondering what was going to happen today—whether I’d die, whether Mack would die, whether Rig, or Cara would… or if we’d end this day in a slavery worse than our current lives.