The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0321

Nicholas

A late night knock rattled my door, rousing me from my sleep. I groaned, threw my arm over

my eyes, and turned over, ready to ignore it.

But then it came again, louder.

Sighing, I lowered my arm and checked my clock. Midnight.

Who could be trying to reach me now?

My heart immediately jumped into my throat. Piper.

Who else would visit me this late? Unannounced?

Perhaps she had changed her mind about pushing the distance between us. Maybe she wanted me to hold her again. Go d, I couldn’t wait to feel her in my arms once more.

In a rush, I threw back my blankets and hopped from my bed. At the door, I wasted no time in drawing it open.

When I saw Piper there, a sense of relief surged through me so fully, I nearly toppled over. My knees went weak. My heart thundered out of control.

“Piper,” I said.

At once, she pounced toward me, jumping straight into my willing arms. She wrapped her own arms around my neck, and h ooked her legs around my waist. Her mouth found mine, latching on for a passionate kiss.

She was being more aggressive than usual, demanding where usually she allowed me the lead. But who was I to deny her? Or to deny myself, when she was all that I ever wanted?

I could be malleable, if this was how she wanted me every now and then. Whatever kept her mouth on mine and her body pressed against me.

Go d, I had missed her so much, I had felt her seeped down into my very bones. Her name was carved along my ribs, I was certain. Her voice, her mouth, her body, everything about her was seared into my heart.

I couldn’t exist without my want of her, my love.

Which was why I felt so confused when my soul, which usually burned brightly in her

presence, felt more unsure than happy.

In the back of my mind, my wolf began to growl – not with its usual possessive intent, but with something darker… something warning…

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Piper’s hands slipped into the space between us. She was undressing herself.

“Whoa,” I said, breaking the kiss. “Slow down, Piper. It’s okay. I’m here, we’ve got all night.” Piper shook her head. “Want you,” she said, voice rough.

No, this felt like too big a difference from the last time I had seen her. Was that why my wolf was unhappy? We needed to make sure this was what she truly wanted, and she wasn’t just acting because she thought I wanted this.

“No. We need to talk first.” I tried to lower her down, but her legs wouldn’t release from around me. “Piper?”

I looked up at her, desperate to know her expression. What I saw there sent a violent shiver through me.

You stu pid as shole, I thought at myself, hating myself in that moment.

Piper – no, Jane – wrapped a collar around

—

my neck.

Knowing this wasn’t Piper, I dropped her and stumbled backwards. Jane landed on her feet like I had barely inconvenienced her. A sharp smirk quirked one corner of her mouth.

I tugged at the collar but it wouldn’t budge. “What is this?”

“Be a good little dog, and sit,” Jane said. Shame went through me. How could I ever think this vile woman with her sharp, vindictive voice could ever be my beautiful and kind Piper?

Jane’s command sent a zip of pain shooting through my body. I grit my teeth, not wanting to show weakness.

“Is this how you mean to play?” she asked. “You think you can fight one of the strongest anti -werewolf measures in the underground?”

A magical collar? Designed to debilitate a werewolf?

had chained him back, but we both fought against those binds. The

do my bidding up

a shower to remove her scent. I’d use all the mouthwash in the kingdom to get

so I had to settle for staining my floors

tensed all my muscles and

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you?” she teased. “Not

nothing like

“We wear the same face, you oaf. That had been

you

“Do you think Piper will be upset

within me, an ever-burning flame. I would never let her get away with purposefully hurting

her again. My hands, half claws now, sliced into the meat of her arm.

rushed to an innocuous part of the wall. There

reached up, touched part of the sailboat, and an entire door opened right there in that spot on the wall. I wouldn’t have believed it if I

my private rooms. How long had it been

the new doorway, a score of men dressed in black came pouring out. Members of the

him up if you have to, to make

rd? I was a

men started forward, coming closer. They lacked caution. I taught them with sharp tooth and

he shifting?” one of the members

shoving one of the men forward. “Don’t be such a godd

but a

could fight off three or four at once, fifth added a challenge. One landed

me, containing my arms and legs. A

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sharp. But I couldn’t press all

positively gleeful as

doing this?” I demanded, my voice raw, torn between man and wolf. Jane huffed a

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Chapter 0322

all the way to Nichola s’s room.

answer.

asleep,”

it’s

at once, pushing inward. Together, Julian and I stumbled into the

had been shoved over. The carpet was torn to shreds, like wolf claws had sliced straight through. There were claw

stepping into the center of the room. He paused, and turned to me. “Do you feel

“Feel what?”

his head and

it too, like a tingle in the back

marks seemed to lead toward a wall, like someone had

have they done to

through stone and wood, I heard a wolf

feel it pull inside of me much like my

belong to

here. Somewhere. There has to be

wall, where a painting of a sailboat

there,

a passageway, especially if it had been recently

it seemed to whisper.

“Piper, stop wasting time!”

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lifted my hand and put it to the wall. It felt sturdy, but under that was the now-familiar tingle

passage was here, I was

heart lead the way. It compelled me to lift a hand. My fingers

I pressed down.

There was a click.

open, revealing an

widened his

know,” I

He nudged me aside so he could enter the passageway first. I followed him down, down a winding stairwell. It opened up into a room

form, a collar tight around his neck. One of the cages had been burst through, iron bars bent. He snapped

seemed tired, weakened somehow, in a way I

to him,” Julian barked at me.

are you going