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.

it seemed to whisper. This will lead

“Piper, stop wasting time!”

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lifted my hand and put it to the wall. It

The

I was certain of

let the pull of my heart lead the way. It compelled me to lift a hand. My fingers

I pressed down.

There was a click.

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

my side. Disbelief widened his features. “How

don’t know,”

first. I followed him down, down a winding stairwell. It opened up into a room filled

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

a way I had never seen him

Julian barked at

you going to

“Save my

brother.”

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angry. His eyes were wild with

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

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

Julian had already turned around and tackled two more, clearing

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

me help

a hand. Julian took care of most of

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into

my

I gasped, but held on. If I could get him free, he would likely regain his strength. I didn’t have

just get

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

again, eager to

get to his side, someone tackled me, sending me sliding along the ground. No, not a

in horror

My whole heart shattered.

of me that had been so violently ripped away and

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

at me