The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0322

Julian and I ran all the way to Nichola s’s room. I knocked on the door, but there was no

answer.

“Maybe he’s asleep,” I said.

“See if it’s locked,” Julian said.

I tried the handle. The door opened at once, pushing inward. Together, Julian and I stumbled into the room. Then, I gasped.

Furniture had been shoved over. The carpet was torn to shreds, like wolf claws had sliced straight through. There were claw marks etched into the wall.

“He struggled,” Julian said, stepping into the center of the room. He paused, and turned to me. “Do you feel that?”

“Feel what?”

He lifted his head and looked around. “Magic.’

>>

Now that he mentioned it, now that I knew what to focus on, yes. I could feel it too, like a tingle in the back of my mind. Or my nose preparing for a sneeze.

“How could this happen?” I asked, wandering around the room. The claw marks seemed to lead toward a wall, like someone had been dragged there.

Nicholas. What have they done to you?

Then, distantly, muf fled through stone and wood, I heard a wolf howl.

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

But this one didn’t belong to me. It was Nicholas.

“Sh it,” Julian said. “He’s here. Somewhere. There has to be a passage.

bookcase.

I turned back to the wall, where a painting of a sailboat hung.

“There’s nothing there, Piper. Keep searching!”

Julian went for the

That didn’t seem right. Visually, I knew I should have been able to see the outlines of a passageway, especially if it had been recently used. But right now, my heart was pulling me

here.

to whisper.

“Piper, stop wasting time!”

1/4

+15 BONUS

wall. It felt sturdy, but under that was the

The

here, I

It

I pressed down.

There was a click.

door swung open, revealing an opening right

to my side. Disbelief widened his features. “How

know,” I

first. I followed him down, down

there in wolf form, a collar tight around his neck. One of the cages had been burst through, iron bars bent. He snapped wildly at some men in dark clothing who were trying to corner

weakened somehow, in a way

at me. “Remove that

you

“Save my

brother.”

>>

were wild with it. His hands shook, tremoring with

in a blink of an eye, fully human one second, and fully

pushing them away from his brother and sending them into the wall. They hit

entered the fray as well, dodging what I could. Julian had already turned around and tackled

side. He inched

me

anyone who came to close. He snapped at an arm, a hand. Julian took care of most of the rest. The

+15 BONUS

into

my

sparkled under my touch, shooting pain up arms. I gasped, but held on. If I could get him free, he would likely regain his strength. I didn’t have a

just get

to touch the offender’s wrist between my hands. Then I twisted, just

forward again, eager

before I could get to his side, someone tackled me, sending me sliding

watched, my eyes widening in horror as a wolf stepped closer

My whole heart shattered.

wolf, a piece of me that had been so violently ripped away and given instead to

my soul, the growing bruises from where I’d been shoved

me