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.’

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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.

it seemed to whisper. This will

“Piper, stop wasting time!”

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put it to the wall. It felt

The

I was

way. It compelled me to lift a hand. My

I pressed down.

There was a click.

just like that, a door swung open, revealing an

rushed to my side. Disbelief widened his

know,” I

hell with it, let’s go.” He nudged me aside so he could enter the passageway first. I followed him down, down a winding stairwell. It opened up into

neck. One of the cages had been burst through, iron bars bent. He snapped wildly at some men in

weakened somehow, in a way I had never

Julian barked at

you going to

“Save my

brother.”

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angry. His eyes were wild with it. His hands shook, tremoring with barely

of an eye, fully human one second, and fully wolf

of the men, pushing them away from his brother and sending them into the wall. They hit it with

had already turned around and tackled two more, clearing a path

knees at Nichola s’s side. He inched forward, trying to place himself in

let me help

close. He snapped at an arm, a hand. Julian took care of most

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into

my

held on. If I could get him free, he would likely regain his strength. I

could just get

me back. I released the collar to touch the offender’s wrist between my hands. Then I twisted, just as Nicholas had shown me in self-defense class. The attacker stumbled

eager to return to

tackled me, sending me

horror

My whole heart shattered.

had been so violently ripped away and given instead to my sister. Now, she was using it

my soul, the growing bruises from where

me as it stepped