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.

“Piper, stop wasting time!”

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

The

I was certain

my eyes, and let the pull of my heart lead the way. It compelled me to lift a hand. My fingers brushed against the brushstrokes of

I pressed down.

There was a click.

door swung open, revealing an

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

know,” I said

aside so he could enter the passageway first. I

there in wolf form, a collar tight around his neck. One of the cages had been burst through, iron bars bent. He

somehow, in a way I had never seen him

at me. “Remove that da

are you

“Save my

brother.”

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seen Julian so angry. His eyes were wild with it. His hands

in a blink of an eye, fully human

I could even think to react, he barreled forward. He tackled into two of the men, pushing them away from his

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

to my knees at Nichola s’s side. He inched forward, trying to place himself in front

me

He snapped at an arm, a hand. Julian

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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

could just

and yanked me back. I released the collar to touch the offender’s wrist between

forward again, eager to return to

tackled me, sending me sliding along the

widening in horror as a wolf stepped closer to

My whole heart shattered.

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

growing bruises from where I’d been shoved to the

at me as it