The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0292

The next morning after the event, I went with Nicholas to speak with Julian. He was in a sitting room, sipping coffee while reading through a newspaper. Terry’s face was plastered all over the front page, under the headline: Traitor.

It still didn’t seem real. I expected him to pop out from any corner.

Though perhaps Terry wasn’t the one to be afraid of anymore. After all, Jane was the one who had sent that knife flying for my face. I shuddered to think what might have happened if Nicholas hadn’t been there with me.

“Julian, we need to talk,” Nicholas said as we approached Julian at his small round table.

Julian motioned toward the two other chairs at his table. “Coffee?”

Nicholas and I glanced at each other, then sat down. A pair of ser vants immediately delivered two cups of coffee for us. Julian nudged the bowl of sugar closer to us.

“You’ll feel better after some caffeine,” Julian said.

“Forget coffee,” Nicholas said. Things were tense between Julian and Nicholas. While Nicholas glared openly at Julian, Julian avoided looking back at him. “How did you know about the tattoo?”

For knowing Julian his whole life, I wasn’t sure how he couldn’t realize by now that kindness earned more favors from Julian than spewing

much softer and friendlier than Nicholas. “Why didn’t you mention the tattoos before?

only recently learned about it. We knew the symbol of the upside-down wolf skull was tied to the underground

by whom?”

gently,

It creaked with the new weight distribution. “I have a new informant. An ex-member of the underground. They’ve been feeding me more information than

“Who?” Nicholas asked.

the table toward me. They worked directly with magic, Piper. They understand the ins and outs of it. They

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mouth fell

believe so,” Julian said. “At the very

to me felt like such an impossibility that in my

if Julian’s informant did work with magic, then they would at least know if returning my wolf was even possible, or if searching for a way was a

want to meet

Julian said, “They are skittish, and for good reason. They possess the kind of knowledge that makes them invaluable to our investigation, but dangerous to the underground. Though