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.

tightened it over my chest, attempting somewhat futilely to preserve

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 his

going to kill

+25 BONUS

but I felt frozen in place. I couldn’t move or even

Julian doesn’t have the same

Nicholas stilled. “Don’t kill

low and dangerous.

know he deserves it, but how the hell would we explain it? We have to focus on

stayed on the floor as Julian guided me from the room

of undress. In the dark, we

had arrived last, was closest to the exit. Julian led me there, then helped me sit

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 to him, to assure him that I was okay, but I was still struggling to move.

disconnected with the movements of my body. Every limb was sluggish.

in shock, most likely. I hated it. I wanted to move, to go to Nicholas so we could both

me kill him,” Nicholas

Terry’s dead? You think she’ll just

so hard, it looked painful. “We

Julian said. “Calm yourself down so you can drive Piper home. She’s out here in her underwear, you

His gaze shifted to me. I watched him through the

slipped away from his nearly- rampaging body. His

steadiness.

handle the rest here tonight.

Nicholas nodded.

his elbows over my door. “Go home and relax. There’s nothing to worry about. Nicholas

didn’t have my back yet. Instead I pressed my lips together and hoped that he could accept that as the semblance of agreement I intended it to

he said, and I felt relief.