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

size and strength of Nicholas’s wolf. Nicholas pinned Terry down to the hard

going to kill

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I felt frozen in place.

Julian doesn’t have the

Julian shouted. Nicholas stilled. “Don’t

growls, low

it? We have to focus on getting

the floor as Julian guided me from the

the dark, we

led me there, then helped me

and back and forth. He was clearly agitated. I wanted to go to him,

felt clear, yet somehow disconnected with the movements of my body. Every limb

move, to go to Nicholas so we could both feel the

kill him,” Nicholas said.

huh? Or 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

head so hard, it looked painful. “We could

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

shifted to me. I watched him through the

his nearly- rampaging body. His eyes, wild only a moment before, settled into some of their

steadiness.

Julian said. “I’ll handle

Nicholas nodded.

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

like Nicholas had, and I didn’t have my back yet. Instead I pressed my lips together and hoped that he could accept that as the semblance

he said, and I felt