Betrayed Luna's Second Chance Alphas
Betrayed Luna’s Second Chance Alphas – Chapter 16

-Riley-

Hiran pushed the door open and ran out of the pack house, promptly disappearing into the woods. I looked around, and I saw Dee running towards me. Her breath left in a gasp as she stared at the door swinging between us.

“Find Reid, or Roman or Adrian, Dee,” I said to Dee as I looked around the room, quickly surveying the place. The other pups were still here, mingling with the slightly older kids, and they looked like they were enjoying the party, but… “And the kids, bring them back to the house and stay inside. Lock the door. Tell Linda and Roza I told them to not open the door unless it is me.”

Dee nodded. My heart was racing and my ears were ringing. I felt like I would faint, but I couldn’t. My fingers buzzed. I whirled around and Dee grabbed my wrist. “No, you shouldn’t go alone, Riley. He is a monster and-“

“He wouldn’t do anything to me, or her, but I can’t leave her alone with him. Even if he is doing this only to threaten me, Mirabel would be scared and I don’t want her to be scared,” I whispered as I clutched my chest. The pain of this betrayal was even more painful. It was one thing threatening, but to actually use it… what kind of man would do that?

I hated myself for never seeing through the facade. I had been living with him for two and a half years and… I was blind.

“Okay, go. I will replace someone and keep the kids safe, too,” Dee said with a frown. Her eyes were shiny and she was biting her lips trying hard not to cry. I knew she cared just as much for these pups as I did. They were not really ours, but they were in all the sense that mattered.

“Here,” Dee said as she handed me the pocket knife she always carried with her. Sometimes, when you knew what you knew, you would want to carry a machete, or a gun. She only carried a knife. I thanked her and pushed the door open, before running into the woods, following his scent. My body was shaking in anger and fear. I knew he wouldn’t dare harm the little girl, but I still didn’t want her with him, not for a second more.

“This is… not right. Dee is right. He is doing this to get you alone.”

“I don’t know what else to do. I have to get Mirabel back.”

My body trembled as I followed him. Branches scraped against my skin. And then I stopped when I saw him leaning against the tree, just waiting for me. He looked at me, his eyes boring into mine, and the look in his eyes was vile.

“I told you, Luna, I told you not to play your game with me. You are so new to all of this. You are the reason for-“

I screamed and lunged at him and he didn’t even move. He pressed a palm against my rib and, with intense force, he pushed me back. I staggered back and fell, a frustrating g***n leaving my lips. It felt like he had crushed my bones or something.

I winced in pain, but I could not concentrate on it right now. Mirabel was crying as she called to me.

“Lee-lee.” Her little voice was quivering. I felt my heart turning hard. No, he didn’t get to do this and not get punished.

“Kill him. Kill that a*****e. Just kill him and-” Gem looked like she was in pain.

I wanted to kill him. So bad. But I remembered what Roman said. Even though I didn’t know anything, I knew keeping this shithole alive was important. He should thank my one-night-stand for standing here alive.

“I told you, too, Hiran.” I growled as I moved towards him once again.

Mirabel started to cry harder. Huge tears rolled down her cheeks. “Lee-lee.”

“Oh, baby girl, it is alright,” I whispered as she looked at me. I felt everything inside me come alive. My body shuddered from the ferocity I felt about protecting this girl. She was mine, and no one was touching my girl.

My wolf was snarling inside me, and the anger in me, it pushed me. I had never felt such immense power inside me. It was like a different kind of instinct.

“It is the instinct a mother has, to protect her baby.”

I nodded.

My claws lengthened as I looked at him and faked a right, and then double-faked it, when he guessed I was faking my attack. He growled as my claws dug into his stomach. With my other hand, I stuck Dee’s knife to the hand that was holding Mirabel. He yelped in anger and pain as he let go of his hand and I quickly took Mirabel away from him and held her with one hand as I pulled my claws out of his stomach. He howled as his eyes flashed.

I started to run, but it was hard with Mirabel clutched to my chest, which was hurting so badly. She was crying and sobbing, her little body violently trembling in my hold.

“You just made a big mistake, Riley, and you will pay for that,” he snarled out, closer to me than I had anticipated. He grabbed my hair in his hand, effectively pulling me to a stop.

But I was not going to back off, not now. I clawed his hand, gripping on to my hair, and he took his hand back. I whirled around and growled at him. “I told you not to touch my pups.” I quickly took a step back when he hurtled towards me and spun around.

“I told you not to sleep with other men. We both didn’t listen,” he said, his mad eyes gleaming with vengeance.

“You should just let me and my pups go, then, and you will not have to deal with this. You chose this.”

“No, I didn’t. I am the Alpha, b***h, and it is my pack.” He glared at me as he lunged towards me. He looked crazy as fu.ck.

“Hold on to me tight, baby girl.” Mirabel did as she was asked. She couldn’t fully talk yet, but she understood everything. “And let’s show this a*s.hole what happens when she messes with one of MY pups.”

He angrily barrelled towards me. I took a few steps back and waited. He was so angry he was almost blind with anger. The last moment, I stepped aside and he ploughed right into the massive oak tree. I took the moment of disorientation.

I grabbed my high heel and slammed it into his back. Hard. With all my fu.cking strength. He growled and howled in pain. The pain of wearing the heels was so worth it now. I pulled it off of his back and then slammed it once again, against his spine. He growled as he shook the heels off.

Throwing the other heel at him, I ran through the woods. My feet ached, but I couldn’t stop.

I stumbled and almost fell when a hand caught me. My right ankle hurt like hell. I must have twisted it or something. Fu.ck.

“Little Luna… oh…” Adrian said as he pulled me closer to his body and I felt my heartbeat calming down.

I looked up from his embrace to meet Adrian’s warm gray eyes. He looked worried and angry, too. “A rogue? Who did this, Riley? What is going on? Your friend asked me to come here. She didn’t tell me what it is…”

“Adrian…” I whispered as he ran his palm up and down my back. I buried my face into his chest, Mirabel still clutched to mine. She didn’t make any sound. I could feel how afraid she was, my poor little pup.

“Tell me who did this, Luna, and I will kill him for you. Know, death is easy. I will-“

“Take her back to the building behind the pack house, Adrian. My friend, Dee, she will be waiting there,” I said and handed Mirabel to Adrian. Adrian looked confused as he took Mirabel from me. Mirabel looked at me, her big eyes still swimming with tears.

He touched my cheek and winced. “You have b***d.”

“Just go and keep her safe. Also, Adrian, can you please stay in the house with the pups until I come back? I don’t want them to be alone!” I didn’t know why, but I trusted him, and I trusted Roman, too. When Mirabel was in danger, it surprised me that they were the ones I asked for next to Reid.

“You need to come with me, Riley. I am not going alone. I am not leaving you here, little Luna,” he whispered as he caressed my cheek and my body felt relaxed. I wanted to lie down on the floor and go to sleep. Tonight was too much.

“I will. Don’t worry about me,” I said with a wince. I knew I couldn’t hobble to the pack house right now. I would slow him down. He needed to be with Mirabel.

“I am worrying about you. I can’t not worry about you, Riley and-” I heard another growl deep from the woods. Hiran was slowly recovering from the assault. His wolf must be healing slowly. It took time, but I was sure he would be here soon enough. “No, Luna, I am not going to leave you here, not alone. It is your mate, isn’t it? The one who did this?” Adrian snarled. “That freaking as.shole.”

“Yes, but you should see what I did to him. I can take care of myself,” I whispered with a shrug.

“I don’t care. Come with me,” Adrian said as he wrapped an arm around my shoulder.

“I will bring her back,” Roman came out of the trees looking pissed, and they both shared a quick look. Adrian must have mind-linked him or something. “Take the kid home, Ad.”

I still didn’t know much about them. It was strange two Alphas could have a mind-link or how they were even friends. But these two were the ones I trusted, obviously, with my life and my pups’ life.

“Who did this to you?” Roman growled out as his eyes fell to my plunged neckline. Through the dip in the dress, the bruise was visible. “I am going to fu.cking kill him. I am going to break his every one of his bone until he has four hundred and twelve bones.

“It is her mate, Rome, him. I think he is more dangerous than we assumed.”

“You are here for him?” I looked at Adrian and he winced as he looked at Roman. They both shared a look.

Adrian kissed me on my cheeks. “I will take care if the pups, and you should take care of yourself.” With that said, Adrian started to run towards the pack house.

“He did this to you, Luna?” Roman’s eyes darkened to coal black and something swirled around him. Like power. Magic. I could feel the vibration of his power along my skin. He was- not ordinary. Not just an Alpha. Not just a Lycan.

Roman glared through the darkness, his eyes swirling with a strange kind of light. He looked enraged. His body shuddered and I saw fur growing along his hands. Dark gray fur, so dark that it almost looked black in the night.

If he shifted now, I knew he would run after Hiran and kill him. I could see his intention clearly in his eyes.

I grabbed his hand and trembled when his power shocked me. It felt like I was touching a powerful electric wire. It didn’t hurt, but it just felt strange. And tingly. “No, Roman, look at me, I am alright. See. I am alright.”

“No, you are not alright. He- that a.sshole hurt you,” Roman said, but he looked like he had calmed down, and the strange energy swirling around him stopped. Roman hesitated for a second before he took a step towards me and placed his finger on my chest. I hissed in pain and he pulled his finger back with a wince. “Oh, Riley. I want to kill that ba.stard and then bury him with his own b***d and bones. I do.”

“But you can’t, not yet, can you?” I whispered and he nodded.

“But when I do, I am going to take my time with him.”

And I absolutely believed him.

“Let me help you, then, Roman.”

He chuckled darkly and my body reacted in response to that dark chuckle. “Of course, Kitten. You will get your share.”

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