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.

to whisper.

“Piper, stop wasting time!”

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

The

was here, I

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

I pressed down.

There was a click.

swung open, revealing an opening right in front

side. Disbelief widened his features. “How did you

know,” I

me aside so he could enter the passageway first. I followed him down, down a winding stairwell. It opened up into

been burst through, iron bars bent. He snapped wildly at some men in dark clothing who were

somehow, in a way I

at me. “Remove

are you

“Save my

brother.”

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so angry. His eyes were wild with it.

shifted in a blink of an eye, fully human one second, and fully wolf

forward. He tackled into two of the men, pushing them away from his brother

I could. Julian had already turned around and tackled two more, clearing a path

at Nichola s’s side. He inched forward,

let me help

a hand. Julian took

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into

my

my touch, shooting pain up arms. I gasped, but held on. If I could get him free, he would likely regain

I could just get

shoulder and 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

forward again, eager

to his side, someone tackled me, sending me sliding along the ground.

in horror as a wolf stepped closer to

My whole heart shattered.

of me that had been so violently ripped away and given instead

the growing bruises from

at me as