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.

thing about these bars but an alpha wolf might be able too."

didn't need to finish. The underground's manipulation of him seemed to have left him weakened.

wolf, I wasn't sure Miracle and I would have the power to

An alpha wolf could.

And maybe... a bear.

began to meditate. It was difficult,

is happening. I

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

was when I heard it, a whisper from a far

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

my

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

back from

able to hold this form for very long. Knowing that, I lifted my massive paws and slammed them into