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.

way, it seemed to

“Piper, stop wasting time!”

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my hand and put it to the wall. It felt sturdy, but under that was the now-familiar tingle

The

I was certain

It compelled me to lift a hand. My

I pressed down.

There was a click.

door swung open, revealing an opening right

to my side. Disbelief widened

know,” I said

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

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 were trying to

in a way I had never seen

barked at me.

are you going to

“Save my

brother.”

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Julian so angry. His eyes were wild with it.

fully human one second, and fully

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

had already turned around and

Nichola s’s side. He inched forward, trying to

let me help

came to close. He snapped at an arm, a hand. Julian took

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into

my

on. If I could get him free, he would likely regain

could just

yanked me back. I released the collar to touch the offender’s wrist between my hands. Then I twisted, just as Nicholas had shown me in self-defense class.

again, eager to

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

my eyes widening in horror as a wolf

My whole heart shattered.

so violently ripped away and given instead to my

bruises from where I’d been

growled at me as it