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.

the way, it seemed to

“Piper, stop wasting time!”

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it to the wall. It felt

The

I was certain of

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

I pressed down.

There was a click.

that, a door swung open, revealing an opening right in front of

widened his features. “How did you do

don’t know,”

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

cages had been burst through,

a way I had never

to him,” Julian barked at me. “Remove that da mn

are you going

“Save my

brother.”

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

eye, fully human one

He tackled into two of the men, pushing them away from his brother and sending them into the wall. They

well, dodging what I could. Julian had already turned around and tackled two more,

s’s side. He inched forward, trying

let me help

snapped at an arm, a hand. Julian took care of most of the rest.

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into

my

grabbed it with both hands. 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 have a wolf. I couldn’t save us from this. But

could just

back. I released the collar to touch the offender’s wrist between my hands. Then I twisted, just as Nicholas had

eager to return to

tackled me, sending me sliding along

eyes widening in horror as a wolf

My whole heart shattered.

so violently ripped away and

hurt. My heart, my soul, the growing bruises from where I’d been shoved to the

me