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.

the way, it seemed to whisper. This will lead

“Piper, stop wasting time!”

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to the wall. It felt sturdy, but under that was

The

here, I

of my heart lead the way. It compelled me to lift a

I pressed down.

There was a click.

like that, a door swung open, revealing

side. Disbelief widened his

know,”

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

tight around his neck. One of the cages had been burst through, iron

a way I had never seen

at me. “Remove that da mn

you

“Save my

brother.”

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eyes were wild with it. His

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

even think to react, he barreled forward. He tackled into two of the men, pushing them away from his brother and sending them into the wall. They hit it with an oof, and

had already turned

to my knees at Nichola s’s side. He inched forward,

me help

a hand. Julian took care of

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into

my

held on. If I could get him free, he would likely regain his strength. I didn’t have a wolf. I couldn’t save us from this. But

I could just get

hand grabbed my shoulder and yanked me back. I released the collar to touch the offender’s wrist between my hands. Then I twisted, just as

again, eager to return

could get to his side, someone tackled me, sending me sliding along the ground. No, not a

widening in horror as a wolf

My whole heart shattered.

of me that had been so violently ripped away and given instead to my sister. Now, she was

growing bruises

at me as it