The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

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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.

seemed to whisper. This will lead

“Piper, stop wasting time!”

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

The

here, I was certain of

and let the pull of my heart lead the way. It

I pressed down.

There was a click.

just like that, a door swung open, revealing

rushed to my side. Disbelief widened his features. “How

don’t know,” I

aside so he could enter the passageway first. I

the cages had been burst through, iron bars bent.

weakened somehow, in a way I

him,” Julian barked at me. “Remove that

are you

“Save my

brother.”

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never seen Julian so angry. His eyes were wild with it. His

an eye, fully human one second,

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

Julian had already turned around and tackled

s’s side. He inched forward, trying to place himself

me

at an arm, a hand. Julian took care 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

just get him

offender’s wrist between my hands. Then I

darted forward again, eager to return to

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

eyes widening in horror as a wolf

My whole heart shattered.

had been so violently ripped away and given instead to my sister. Now, she was using it

soul, the growing bruises from where I’d been shoved

wolf growled at me as it stepped

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