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.

the way, it seemed to whisper. This will lead you

“Piper, stop wasting time!”

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and put it to the wall. It

The

I was certain of

my heart lead the way. It compelled me

I pressed down.

There was a click.

door swung open, revealing

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

know,”

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

form, a collar tight around his neck. One of the cages had been burst through, iron bars bent. He snapped wildly at some men

tired, weakened somehow, in a way I had never seen

Julian barked at me. “Remove that da

are you going

“Save my

brother.”

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never seen Julian so angry. His eyes were wild with it. His hands shook, tremoring with barely contained

shifted in a blink of an eye, fully human one

of the men, pushing them away from his brother and sending them into the wall.

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

knees at Nichola s’s side. He inched forward, trying to place

let me help

came to close. He snapped at an arm, a hand. Julian took

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into

my

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

could just get

touch the offender’s wrist between my hands. Then I twisted,

eager to

tackled me, sending me sliding

in horror as

My whole heart shattered.

ripped away and given instead to my sister. Now, she

the growing bruises from where I’d been shoved

at me as it stepped