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.

shift?" I asked him. "A human can't do a thing about these bars but an alpha wolf might be able too." Joyce hung his head. "I haven't shifted

The underground's manipulation of him seemed to have left him

that certainly didn't help the issue. Even if I could shift into my wolf, I wasn't sure Miracle and I would have

An alpha wolf could.

And maybe... a bear.

meditate. It was difficult,

"Please... whatever is happening. I need you... and I need

to the voice within myself, trying to hear what I couldn't before. Pushing out all other

heard it, a whisper from

Miracle either. It was like a different part of us both,

in my

fur. In a flash, I had shifted from my regular human self into a

stepping back from the bars between

energy needed to maintain such a fierce presence was nearly overwhelming. I wouldn't be able to hold this form for very long. Knowing that, I lifted my massive paws and