The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0558

Nicholas POV

Panic and fear waged war in my heart as I swam down into that water and saw Piper, the woman who had claimed my heart more than once, losing consciousness. Her eyes were slipping closed. She was running out of air.

Veronica was doing her best to drag Piper to the surface, but Piper was barely kicking now. She was dead weight, dragging Veronica down too.

My heart was in my throat. My stomach twisted uncomfortably. Piper looked dead. She was drowning, I was losing her.

I couldn't lose her.

Kicking downward, I reached out for Piper. I still had fresh air in my mouth from before I dived underwater, so the moment Piper was in my arms, I touched her face, tilted her head, and brought my mouth down to hers.

A kiss of life, I breathed my air into her lungs.

Relief surged through me as I felt her stir against me. She was alive.

As I ended the kiss, Veronica was still there, waiting. She reached for Piper, and, with Piper kicking again, we all pushed toward the surface.

Movement brought my attention down to the depths beneath us.

And there, I saw the shape of merfolk man with a massive fish tail, rushing toward us - toward Piper. As he came closer, I recognized him as that asshole prince from the merfolk ball. The one who had tried to make moves on Piper, and then wouldn't listen to her rejection.

This asshole had already tried to take something that didn't belong to him, and now he was trying to take Piper's life?

My inner wolf howled in raged, his anger rising in tandem with my own. My fingers curled, my claws breaking through my skin.

I exchanged only a passing glance with Veronica, who immediately understood. She took on the bulk of Piper's weight. Together, they breached the surface. Piper, thankfully, could have air of her own.

the danger beneath her. And I was more

into the space between Ronan and Piper just as Ronan came near. Rather than grabbing her, Ronan instead found himself clasping

recoiled at once, until I reached out and sunk my claws straight into

to help me with this fight, but

fucking asshole dared to

he think he was to touch Piper? My friend. My

wolf growled in my mind, My mate.

he had thought he would have been able to get to Piper without opposition - that he could simply swoop

valued and would be protected until

began to pull me down, deeper into the water. Was

turned my vision red.

Ronan might have the advantage here, being able to breathe underwater. In addition, his tail made him fast and his

didn't need to swim to beat him. I just needed my muscles and

claws and then clamped them down on Ronan's neck, right over his

out as his blood spilled out into the water. The anger diffused entirely from his eyes, replaced now only with fear. If he wanted to drown me, he had to keep dragging me down, but to do

I wasn't about

touched what

he dared hurt Piper. Dared

acts would not

immense muscle there, flicked me away from him. I kept holding on. My claws did

water. Sharks would be

fled as

I was running out of air, but my rage fueled me forward. I kicked and kicked until I breached the surface and sucked in a fresh

ebbed, was for Piper. Was she

fast sweep of a gaze. There was a small crowd

to swim toward them, a hand came into my vision. How singularly focused I must have been to not notice the small

front

raging. I struggled to do anything but seek out my mate. But the reasonable part of my mind reminded me that a boat would be faster travel than my own tired legs. So I grabbed Julian's