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Ch: 45 The New Cage.

Author: Quill-Shadow
last update Last Updated: 2025-11-14 01:24:35

​I was a broken, filthy thing, and he was the god who had broken me.

​Ares didn't offer a hand. He didn't show an ounce of pity. He just turned, his back to me, a silent, imperious command.

​Follow.

​I had to. My body was a universe of pain, my re-set shoulder a deep, sickening, liquid throb. But my pride was a harder, sharper agony. I had begged him. In front of his entire pack, I had been reduced to a weeping, broken creature, and I had asked.

​He had won.

​I pushed myself to my feet, my good arm shaking, my legs trembling so violently I could barely stand. The arena, which had been a wall of sound, was now a tomb. A hundred warriors, silent as the stones they stood on, watched.

​They watched me, the freak, the wolf-less, bloody, and dirt-streaked... thing.

They watched him, their Alpha, the monster, the king.

​And they watched me limp after him.

​The Enforcers, those two stone-faced guards, didn't follow. He was my keeper now. He didn't need them.

​I stumbled across the training gr
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