The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

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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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it to the wall. It felt

The

I was

heart lead the way. It compelled me to lift a hand. My fingers brushed against the brushstrokes of the

I pressed down.

There was a click.

open, revealing an opening right

widened his features. “How did you

don’t know,” I

to hell with it, let’s go.” He nudged me aside so he could enter the passageway first. I

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

tired, weakened somehow, in a way I had

barked at

are you going to

“Save my

brother.”

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seen Julian so angry. His eyes were wild with it. His hands shook, tremoring with

an eye, fully human one

away from his brother and sending them into the wall. They hit it with an oof,

as well, dodging what I could. Julian had already turned around

s’s side. He inched forward, trying to place

me

close. He snapped at an arm, a hand. Julian took care of most of the rest. The collar

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into

my

touch, shooting pain up arms. I gasped, but held on. If I could get

I could just

collar to touch the offender’s wrist between my hands. Then I twisted, just as Nicholas had shown me

darted forward again, eager

me, sending me

widening in horror

My whole heart shattered.

ripped away and given instead to my sister.

the growing bruises from where I’d

me as

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