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

“Piper, stop wasting time!”

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

The

was here, I was certain

the way. It compelled me to lift a hand. My fingers brushed against the brushstrokes

I pressed down.

There was a click.

open, revealing an

Disbelief widened his features. “How

know,” I

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

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

in a way

barked at

are you

“Save my

brother.”

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

in a blink of an eye, fully human one

could even think to react, he barreled forward. 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,

what I could. Julian had already turned around

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

me help

at an arm, a hand.

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into

my

I could get him free, he would likely regain

just get

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

again, eager to return to

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

watched, my eyes widening in horror as

My whole heart shattered.

so violently ripped away and given instead to my sister. Now, she was using it against

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

me as it stepped