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 whisper. This

“Piper, stop wasting time!”

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put it to the wall. It felt sturdy,

The

was here, I was certain of

the way. It compelled me to lift a

I pressed down.

There was a click.

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

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

know,”

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

in wolf form, a collar tight around his neck. One of the cages had been burst through, iron bars bent. He snapped wildly at some men in dark clothing who

in a way I

barked at me.

are you going

“Save my

brother.”

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eyes were wild with it.

fully human

react, he barreled forward. He tackled into two of the men, pushing them away

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

side. He inched forward,

me help

He snapped at an arm, a hand. Julian took

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into

my

I gasped, but held on. If I could get him

I could just get him

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

forward again, eager to return to

could get to his side, someone tackled me, sending me sliding along the ground. No,

horror as a wolf stepped closer to

My whole heart shattered.

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

the growing bruises from where

growled at me as it

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