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.

to whisper. This will lead you to

“Piper, stop wasting time!”

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

The

here, I

and let the pull of my heart lead the way. It compelled me

I pressed down.

There was a click.

door swung open, revealing an opening right

my side. Disbelief widened his features. “How did

know,” I said

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

One of the cages had been burst through, iron

seemed tired, weakened somehow, in a way I had

barked at me. “Remove

are you

“Save my

brother.”

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

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

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

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

Nichola s’s side. He inched forward, trying

me help

He snapped at an arm, a hand. Julian took care of

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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 regain his strength. I didn’t

could just get him

offender’s wrist between my hands. Then I twisted, just as Nicholas had shown me in self-defense class.

eager to return

sending me sliding

watched, my eyes widening in horror as a wolf stepped closer

My whole heart shattered.

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

the growing bruises

me as it stepped