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.

is the way, it seemed to whisper. This will lead you

“Piper, stop wasting time!”

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lifted my hand and put it to the wall. It felt sturdy, but under that was the

The

here, I was

my eyes, and let the pull of my heart lead the way. It compelled me to lift a hand. My fingers brushed against the brushstrokes of

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.

don’t know,”

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

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

weakened somehow, in a way I had never seen him

at me. “Remove

you

“Save my

brother.”

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wild with it. His hands shook, tremoring with

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

He tackled into two of the men, pushing them away from his brother and sending them into the wall. They hit it with an oof,

dodging what I could. Julian had already

at Nichola s’s side. He inched forward, trying to place himself in front of

me help

He snapped at an arm, a hand.

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into

my

I could get him free, he would likely regain his strength. I didn’t

could just

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

darted forward again, eager to return

before I could get to his side, someone tackled me, sending me sliding

my eyes widening in horror

My whole heart shattered.

so violently ripped away and given instead to my sister. Now, she

bruises from where I’d been shoved

at me