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.

way, it seemed to whisper. This will lead

“Piper, stop wasting time!”

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It felt sturdy, but under that

The

was here, I

the pull of my heart lead the way. It compelled me to lift a hand. My fingers

I pressed down.

There was a click.

just like that, a door swung open, revealing an opening right in

to my side. Disbelief widened his features. “How did you

know,” I

He nudged me aside so he could enter the passageway first.

cages had been burst through, iron bars bent. He snapped wildly at some men in dark clothing

tired, weakened somehow, in a way I had never seen him

Julian barked at

you going to

“Save my

brother.”

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Julian so angry. His eyes were wild with it.

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

react, he barreled forward. He tackled into two of the men, pushing them away from his brother and sending them into

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

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

let me

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

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into

my

up arms. I gasped, but held on. If I could get him free, he would likely

I could just get

my shoulder and yanked me back. I released the collar to touch the offender’s wrist between

darted forward again, eager to return

sending me sliding along the ground. No,

horror as a wolf stepped closer to

My whole heart shattered.

that had been so violently ripped away and given

the growing bruises from where

me as it