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.

it seemed to whisper.

“Piper, stop wasting time!”

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and put it to the wall. It felt sturdy, but under that was the now-familiar tingle of

The

I was

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

I pressed down.

There was a click.

swung open,

Disbelief widened his

know,” I

go.” He nudged me aside so he could enter the passageway first. I followed him down, down a winding

neck. One of the cages had been burst through, iron bars

in a way I had never seen him

barked at me.

you going

“Save my

brother.”

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

eye, fully human one second, and fully wolf

He tackled into two of the men, pushing them away from

as well, dodging what I could. Julian had already turned around and tackled two more, clearing a path for

s’s side. He inched forward, trying

let me help

arm, a hand.

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into

my

The magic sparkled under my touch, shooting pain up arms. I gasped, but held on. If I could get him free, he would likely

I could just get him

yanked 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

forward again, eager to

to his side, someone tackled me, sending me sliding along

widening in horror as a wolf

My whole heart shattered.

wolf, a piece of me that had been so violently ripped

hurt. My heart, my soul, the growing bruises from where I’d been

at me as it stepped

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