The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0638

A mating bond...?

Yes. Even though Nicholas and I had never talked about the love between us, I had still felt it grow over these months together. Nicholas had never made a bonding bite on my neck, yet inside of me, that bond had cultivated. Our hearts were bound together, mating bite or now.

There was no denying it.

I felt a distant heartbeat echoing beside my own.

Nicholas.

The presence of that heartbeat, as far away as it seemed, gave me as much comfort as if Nicholas had been standing right beside me.

From that comfort, I drew strength.

In the past, Nicholas or Julian or both had come to my rescue when I needed them. But now, they were thousands of miles away. Unless I wanted to die - which I didn't - I needed to find my own way out of this, and fast.

Reaching out, I placed my hands on the bars and gave them a little shake. Despite everything else down in this cellar that was old and decrepit, the bars seemed new and were fairly well installed. They didn't have any give. "What are you doing?" Joyce asked.

a thing about these bars but an alpha wolf might be able too." Joyce hung his head. "I haven't

to finish. The underground's manipulation of him seemed to have

didn't help the issue. Even if I could shift into my wolf, I wasn't

An alpha wolf could.

And maybe... a bear.

was difficult, with the fear

whatever is happening. I need

to hear what I couldn't before. Pushing out all other thoughts and

heard it, a whisper

quite Miracle, but it wasn't not Miracle either.

I said in my mind. Then, aloud,

shifted, adding mass and fur. In a flash, I had shifted from my regular

stepping back from the bars between

hold this form for very long. Knowing that, I lifted my massive paws and slammed them into the door, smashing through the