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.

seemed to whisper. This

“Piper, stop wasting time!”

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

The

was here, I was certain

closed my eyes, and let the pull of my heart lead the way. It compelled me to lift

I pressed down.

There was a click.

door swung open,

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

don’t know,”

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

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

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

him,” Julian barked at me. “Remove that

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

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

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

entered the fray as well, dodging what I could. Julian had already

side. He inched forward, trying to

let me help

at an arm, a hand. Julian

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into

my

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

could just

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

forward again, eager

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

widening in horror as a wolf stepped closer to

My whole heart shattered.

my wolf, a piece of me that had been so violently ripped away and given instead

my soul, the growing bruises from

growled at me as it stepped