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 whisper. This will

“Piper, stop wasting time!”

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lifted my hand and put it to the wall. It felt sturdy, but under that was

The

here, I was certain of

lead the way. It

I pressed down.

There was a click.

open, revealing an opening right in front of

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

don’t know,” I said

he could enter the passageway first. I followed him down, down a winding stairwell. It opened up into a room filled

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

weakened somehow, in a

Julian barked at me. “Remove that da mn

you going

“Save my

brother.”

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so angry. His eyes were wild with it. His hands shook,

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

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

could. Julian had already turned

He inched forward, trying

let me help

hand. Julian took care of most of the rest. The collar

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into

my

The magic sparkled under my touch, shooting pain up arms. I gasped, but held on. If I could get him free, he would likely regain his strength. I didn’t have a wolf. I couldn’t save us from this. But

just

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 return

tackled me, sending me sliding along the ground. No, not

in horror as a wolf stepped

My whole heart shattered.

my wolf, a piece of me that had been so violently ripped away and given instead to my sister. Now, she

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

growled at me as it stepped