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.

seemed to

“Piper, stop wasting time!”

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

The

was here, I was

the pull of my heart lead the way. It compelled me to lift a hand. My fingers

I pressed down.

There was a click.

swung open, revealing an

Disbelief widened his features. “How did

don’t know,”

it, let’s go.” He nudged me aside so he could enter the passageway first. I

was there in wolf form, 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

a way I had never seen him

him,” Julian barked at me.

are you going to

“Save my

brother.”

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Julian so angry. His eyes were wild with it. His hands shook, tremoring with barely contained

a blink of an eye, fully human one second,

barreled forward. He tackled into two of the men, pushing them away from his brother and sending them into the wall. They hit it with an oof, and landed in

entered the fray as well, dodging what I could. Julian had already turned around and tackled two

knees at Nichola s’s side. He inched forward,

let me

snapped at an arm, a hand. Julian took care of most of the rest. The collar was

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into

my

grabbed it with both hands. The magic sparkled under my touch, shooting pain up arms. I gasped, but held on. If I could get him free, he would

could just get him

offender’s wrist between my hands. Then I twisted, just as Nicholas had shown me in self-defense class.

eager to

me, sending me sliding along the ground.

widening in horror as a wolf stepped

My whole heart shattered.

piece of me that had been so violently ripped away and

bruises from where

growled at me as it