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

“Piper, stop wasting time!”

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put it to the wall. It felt sturdy, but

The

I was certain

It compelled me to lift

I pressed down.

There was a click.

that, a door swung open, revealing an

side. Disbelief widened his features.

know,” I said

go.” He nudged me aside so he could enter the passageway first. I followed him down, down a winding stairwell. It opened up into a room filled

was 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

weakened somehow, in a way I had never

at me. “Remove that da mn

you going to

“Save my

brother.”

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seen Julian so angry. His eyes were wild

an eye, fully human one second,

the men, pushing them away from his brother and

dodging what I could. Julian had

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

me

hand. Julian took care of most

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into

my

could get him free, he would likely regain his

I could just

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

again, eager to return

tackled me, sending me sliding along the ground. No, not

in horror as a wolf stepped closer to

My whole heart shattered.

ripped away and given instead to my sister. Now,

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

growled at me as it

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