The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0276

Nicholas’s wolf eyes looked at me for only a moment, before turning to Terry. A growl erupted from the back of his throat. Then, all at once, he tore forward, pounced, and knocked Terry away from me and down onto the ground.

Julian, in human form, burst into the room behind Nicholas. He rushed to my side. When he saw the handcuffs, his eyes narrowed. He reached into his pocket at retrieved his lock picking tools. Only then did I notice his hands were shaking.

“Julian?” My voice was weak, fear making it small.

“Give me a minute,” Julian said. “We’ll get these things off of you.”

“Are you okay?” I asked.

He blinked, then glanced down at my face. “Am I…? How can you be asking that right now?” He returned to his work.

“You’re trembling…”

“I’m about to shift, Piper. I’m barely holding myself together. I want to rip that motherfucker’s throat out.” The last words came out in a snarl. He closed his eyes a moment, breathed deeply, then opened them again.

The first handcuff clicked open. I lowered my strained arm back down to my chest.

Julian moved to my ankles next. He moved quicker now, like he was focused. Both my ankles were free in no time.

Across the room, Terry shifted into his own wolf, to attempt to hold his own against Nicholas. His wolf, light brown in color, was small than Nicholas’s. He lacked both the speed and strength of Nicholas’s alpha, but he snapped back enough for Nicholas to not immediately bite his head off,

They circled each other, snapping and snarling.

The final handcuff clicked open. I brought it toward my chest to rub some of the pain away. Julian helped me to sit upright, Then he removed his jacket and draped it around my shoulders.

and tightened it over my chest, attempting somewhat futilely to preserve

toward Terry. The attack was obvious, but Terry, even prepared, wasn’t strong enough to hold back the sheer size and strength of Nicholas’s wolf. Nicholas pinned Terry down to the hard ground. He brought

was going to kill

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him, but I felt frozen in place.

have the same

Julian shouted. Nicholas stilled. “Don’t

growls, low and

deserves it, but how the hell would we explain it? We have to focus on getting Piper out of

He snarled once more in Julian’s ear, then, slowly, eased back from him. Terry stayed on the floor as Julian guided me from the room

escaped through a servant’s entrance so others, including the cameras, wouldn’t see my state of undress. In the dark, we walked around the side of the mansion until we reached the driveway where all the cars were

there, then helped me

hood of the car, Nicholas, shifted now back into human form, was pacing back and forth and back and forth. He was clearly agitated. I wanted to go

of my body. Every

shock, most likely. I hated it. I wanted to move, to go to Nicholas so we could both feel the reassurance of knowing the

should have let me kill him,” Nicholas said. “That asshole deserves to die.”

Piper? You think they’ll just let her walk out of a room where Terry’s dead? You think she’ll just be allowed back into the competition like nothing happened?” There was an unusual strain in Julian’s voice.

head so hard, it looked

“Calm yourself down so you can drive Piper home.

gaze shifted to me. I watched him through

Some of the tension slipped away from his nearly- rampaging body.

steadiness.

home,” Julian said. “I’ll handle

Nicholas nodded.

door. “Go home and relax. There’s nothing to worry about. Nicholas and I will keep you safe. Just

like Nicholas had, and I didn’t have my back yet. Instead I pressed my lips together and hoped

said, and I felt relief.