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?

me,” I growled. My wolf itched under the surface of my skin. The collar had chained him back, but we both fought against those binds. The

do my bidding up until

in my stomach. I’d need a shower to remove her scent. I’d use all the mouthwash in the kingdom to get the taste of my

now, so I had to settle for staining my

all my muscles and shot forward. She was quick and darted out

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me, would you?” she teased. “Not when I look so

nothing like her!” I

chin. “We wear the same face, you oaf. That

you

me.” She tapped her finger against the side of her mouth as her smile grew. “Do you think Piper will be upset with that? She’s so fond of

within me, an ever-burning flame. I would never let her

now, sliced into the meat of her arm. She yelped as

to an innocuous part of the wall. There

that spot on the wall. I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it. There hadn’t been any creases in the wall, no giveaways

hidden, even here, in my private rooms. How long had it been

dressed in black came pouring out. Members of the underground organization, most

to, to make him complacent, but don’t kill

rd? I was

closer. They lacked caution. I taught them with

the members asked.

Alpha,” Jane said, shoving one of the men forward. “Don’t be such a godd

but a

fight off three or four at once, fifth added a challenge. One landed a solid blow to my jaw that unsteadied me.

legs. A snapped against

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a half-way state of shifting. My jaw was extended, my teeth sharp. But

gleeful as she gazed down at

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

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Chapter 0322

and I ran all the way to Nichola s’s room. I knocked on the door,

answer.

he’s asleep,”

it’s locked,”

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

wolf claws had sliced straight through. There were claw marks etched

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

“Feel what?”

his head and looked

feel it too, like a

room. The claw marks seemed to lead toward a wall, like someone had been

What have they done

distantly, muf fled through stone and wood, I heard

knew that wolf. I could feel it pull inside of me much like my own

didn’t belong to me. It was

has to be a passage.” Julian

to the wall, where

nothing there, Piper. Keep

been able to see the outlines of a passageway, especially if it had been recently used. But right now, my heart was pulling me

to whisper. This will

“Piper, stop wasting time!”

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it to the wall. It felt sturdy, but

I was

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

I pressed down.

There was a click.

swung open, revealing an

rushed to my side. Disbelief widened his features. “How did you do

know,”

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

was there in wolf form, a collar tight around his neck. One of the cages had been burst

somehow, in a

at me. “Remove that d

you