Betrayed Luna's Second Chance Alphas
Betrayed Luna’s Second Chance Alphas – Chapter 51

-Roman-

Someone knocked on my door. I opened it with a frown, thinking it was Adrian, but it was Ash. She looked sweaty and tired.

“How is Riley?” She asked with a concerned look. I nodded.

“She is sleeping. But did you see Adrian?” I said. I didn’t know where the hell he disappeared when he should be right here with Riley.

“I saw him running behind the yard. I – I didn’t know where he went. Mom sent me to tell you that Hiran is now in the cell, and dad has set the Alpha Court date two days from today. He has already sent the messages to all the Alphas.”

Hiran would stand trial for all the things he had done, in front of the Alpha Court, preceded by the king and the Red Watchers. Every Alpha in the country would come for trial if they could, and because Hiran’s crime was big, the punishment would most probably be death. I would watch him die with satisfaction. I wished I could kill him for her, but now that he was in custody, I was not allowed to kill him. I almost wanted to let him escape and then hunt him down, but I wasn’t stupid enough to take the chance that he might escape.

“If you see Adrian…”

Ash nodded her head. “Just call him. I have to go meet Bella. I told her I would be there in a few minutes. Bye,” she said before she walked away. I closed the door behind me and walked back to the bed and sat down next to Riley.

She was sleeping peacefully. Her tears had dried along her cheek. My heart broke when I saw her like this. She looked so vulnerable, and I had the intense urge to protect her from the world, from everything and everyone.

“Thought she was our mate?!”

“I thought so too? How could she not be?” Karl said with a disappointed frown. It broke both our hearts when I realized we weren’t hers. Even though she was ours in every way, she was still not ours and I hated the thought of that.

“I don’t care if she isn’t my fated one. She loves me. And I- I love her.”

“You keep confessing only to me. How about you confess to her, before it is too f.ucking late?” Karl said with a shake of his head.

“It isn’t the right time, but I will. She deserves everything and I will give it to her. Now I need to call the idi.ot and yell at him.”

I grabbed my phone and dialed Adrian, cursing him as I did. He knew she needed both of us right here with her, when she was hurting. I knew how it felt- the pain of breaking the bond. I went through the pain of it, and I wouldn’t have survived it if Adrian wasn’t there for me back then. My dad’s power helped to heal the brokenness, but it was Adrian who pulled me out of the dark pit I was in. He always had the right words.

Where the f.uck did he run off to now? He picked up his phone and I was threatening him when I heard the loud roar. It almost- it sounded like how Riley had sounded when she attacked Hiran.

What the hell was that?

“Adrian? Adrian?”

There was no answer. My stomach twisted as I called him again. The roar from the other end was loud now.

“Fu.ck my luck,” Adrian’s voice said. His voice was pained, too. What the hell was happening? I gripped the phone tighter as I listened.

“If you don’t come, I might probably die. It will make your life easier, though. s**t, this thing is fast. And there are two of them.”

Who was attacking him?

“Where are you right now? Is it Ramsay?” I shouted, so that he might hear me through the phone. The phone was still on, so whoever was attacking him was not overly concerned about the phone.

“Oh, Rome, I love you. Tell Riley I love her, and I am sorry, and that I didn’t mean to run away like a stupid coward. I should have stayed. I should have-“

“I don’t want to hear any of this. You can tell her everything for yourself. Just tell me where the hell you are, you dumb

fu.ck?”

“Oh right. Send the Red Watchers. I am in the woods. Central Park. It is so freaking dark too… Oh, Rome, don’t leave Riley. You stay there. Just send Dustin or someone else. It is the creatures, you know, the dead humans in the photos you showed me. Ow, it hurts, you ugly sh.it,” Adrian growled. “There are two of them. They are feral, rabid. They look like a very ugly mix between a vampire, a skinned chicken with chicken pox and Nosferatu. I thought Nosferatu was only fictional. Maybe he isn’t.”

“Stop talking and try to stay alive. I will be there in a few minutes.”

I mind-linked my mom as I bent to k**s Riley on her forehead. “Mom, please come to my old room. Adrian is in trouble and I have to go.”

“I will be there in a minute, Rome,” my mom said. It was too hard to leave her now, but I knew Adrian needed me right now.

“Sleep tight, Kitten. I will bring back the idi.ot. I know you will miss him terribly if he is gone,” I whispered, and she moved with a soft whimper, and then settled down. My heart clenched.

Goddess. I love this woman so damn much. How could I love her more than I love myself?

I grabbed my gun and a few weapons I kept in this room, including one of the tranquilizer dart guns, but I had no idea whether it would be enough or not. I grabbed a backpack, pushed two pairs of trousers in just in case he needed some.

My mom came after a few minutes. “What happened to Adrian? Rome, we already lost Dean and we can’t lose-“

“We will replace Dean, I promise. It is the creatures who killed humans from dad’s photographs. Call someone from the Red Watchers and ask them to follow my trail to Central Park. Tell them to bring tranquilizers. A lot of them,” I said before I ran out and quickly took the elevator. I ran until I hit the woods.

Soon I was shifting into my wolf and running. Karl followed Adrian’s scent. It hadn’t faded yet.

“Don’t be fu.cking dead,” I thought as Karl let out a loud growl and barged inside the clearing. The scent of b***d was thick in the air.

The two Lycans glared at each other before they turned to the creatures before them. I winced. They were really ugly as Adrian had said.

I was sure there was no way Ramsay would have let them leave. They must have escaped somehow. What the f.uck was he even trying to do? What kind of experiment would turn someone into this?

I mind-linked Adrian. “You have so much to explain, you dumbhead.”

“Don’t be angry. I wasn’t thinking.”

“You never think at all.”

“Stop screaming at me and stop these things. My body is already hurting. I would have died long ago if I wasn’t a ginormous Lycan. The humans who died had no chance at all.”

I turned towards one of the creatures, and it growled at me, baring its teeth. Even Karl shuddered in disgust. It had gaunt cheeks, long boney hands with sharp claws that looked like they were made of steel.

It leapt at my Lycan, roaring and grunting, and I heard it once again. The sound… it was familiar to the sound Riley made when she was blindly attacking Hiran. Something felt off, but I had no time to think about that right now. Clay gripped it by its throat and threw it away from Karl’s back.

Karl took the backpack and grabbed the tranquilizer dart. He shot it at the two creatures, one after the other.

They roared, howled and kept coming.

What the hell? That was enough tranquilizer to fell a dinosaur, or closer.

“S.hit, these things are not going down.”

One of the creatures pounced at Karl while the other gripped Adrian’s throat, its long claws digging into his throat.

“Not happening,” Karl let out a loud snarl as he kicked the creature away before pulling the other by its leg. The thing whirled around and its eyes… a patch of red… it was fully red.

I heard voices soon enough and sighed.

The Red watchers were here.

“Do not kill. We need to replace out what the hell they are,” I growled through Karl, and the watchers nodded before they started to shoot the tranquilizers filled with special drugs. The two creatures hissed, roared, and after a few minutes they fell down with a thud.

Adrian and I shifted and quickly pulled on the pants.

“The fu.ck is that?” Adrian said as he sat down. The guys from the Red Watchers were tying the creatures with ropes and silver shackles. I wasn’t even sure the shackles would help. These creatures were frail, but they had strength. So much strength.

“Ramsay…” I growled as I slumped next to him and winced when I saw his back. It had claw wounds. “Turn around.”

“What?”

“Your wounds are still not healed. Let me help.”

“No, I am sure you have used a lot of your power to help Riley. It will heal soon enough.”

I growled at him and he sighed.

“You do realize I am an Alpha, too, right? Your growls won’t work on me, idi.ot.”

“Just stop arguing with me and turn. You will lose, anyway.”

Adrian sighed as he turned around, showing me his back. I winced. The skin was torn from his bones.

I touched the wound and he flinched.

“Stop moving.”

“It hurts like hell.”

“Stop being a baby. Now tell me. Why the hell did you run?”

“I-” He hesitated as the wounds started to close. I concentrated on the crackling power from my fingers as I moved it along his spine. Thank Goddess his spine was not hurt. Some injuries took a long time to heal, even with the wolf’s healing power. Like a broken arm, or spine, or crushed balls.

“What is wrong with you?”

He had never hesitated to say anything, not with me. Sometimes I wished he would stop sharing too much, but he never had. He told me every freaking thing. He told me that he wanted to taste Riley, too, after she had spent the night with me. “Just spit it out.”

“You know I would never hurt you, right?”

My stomach felt odd. I stared at him and he looked pained. I had a feeling about what was coming next. My claws dug into my palm as I fisted my palm and looked at Adrian.

“Riley is my mate.”

I knew it was coming, but even though I had anticipated the words, it felt like a train had barrelled through my chest, making a big hole in my heart. I almost staggered back.

I thought I was the one who was sacrificing for my best friend. But what he did for me… How did he keep it inside and asked me to help her?

I stood up and my body shuddered. No. My heart… I felt empty. It felt like a big, Riley-shaped black hole had formed right there in my heart.

“Please don’t go.”

I remembered Riley’s nightmare. It was real. He was the one who was lucky enough to stay with Riley. He was the one who was fated for her. I took that first night from him. She was flirting with him at first. I shouldn’t have- I shouldn’t have touched her, taken her, knowing Adrian was interested, too.

“But how can I stay?” My heart broke. I didn’t want to leave, but I couldn’t stay, could I?

“Because I am begging you. Because she loves you. And I love both of you.”

I had never seen Adrian crying, but he was crying. I wanted to cry, too, I wanted to beg. I wanted to beg him to let me stay, but here he was begging me to stay.

I shook my head as a tear rolled down my cheek. He looked at me with a helpless sigh.

“I don’t think-“

“You don’t have to think. I will think for both of us. You just have to STAY.”

***

-Dean-

The familiar sound of the door sliding woke me up from my fitful sleep. I rarely slept. Nights and days merged into one. Red and blues and whites and blacks just became a fuzzy mess of unrecognizable rainbow bleeding down the skies. Moments and hours

became a circle on the web.

The doctor pulled out the empty IV bag filled with pain medication. It was over. The soft sense of relief. The fleeting moment of solace from this excruciating pain would always go away. The doctor pulled out a big IV bag with bright red b***d with a hint of green. Vampire b***d. Pain, again.

The woman was back with the doctor. “Did you check his b***d? Do a complete b***d count, too.”

“I already did, Nadia. It is an amazing thing. He shows the exact progress as Marcus did. Dean’s b***d proteins are already a greater match for a vampire’s b***d than a wolf’s. The A antigen molecules on the surface of red b***d cells also show a closer resemblance to a vampire’s agglutinogens than the wolf’s. I have a feeling that we can start the next phase of the experiment soon.”

“Next phase. Injecting into humans, right?” she said as her bright eyes flashed down. Her red hair was now down her back.

“Yes.”

“Do you already have test subjects?” the woman’s voice was eager. I whimpered as the doctor stuck a needle into my vein. No. I wanted pain medication. Not this b***d. Vampire b***d burned my body. It felt like a volcano was erupting inside my body.

“We don’t have to worry about the test subjects. We found a few homeless people. They are being prepped in our other facility. That part is going smoothly. The only thing we have to worry about is right here.”

“He looks healthy, doctor, and strong. I do think he will be our first success after sixteen years,” she said with a smile as she ran her fingers through my hair and smiled down at me. Her eyes were sinister.

“Yes, Nadia. He is. He is as strong as your mate was.”

The woman’s smile fell and her lips pressed together in frustration and anger. Her eyes changed into a bright yellow.

“I should have kept a close watch on Marcus. I thought… I thought he was all in. This was our dream. We spent a long time researching. He went through the pain himself, because he wanted to succeed, but then he changed. He chose her in the end, he chose to give up our hard work for her.”

“Did you try to replace him?”

“What do you think? Of course, I did, but I couldn’t replace Marc or my daughter. I don’t know where he took her, or how he hid her.”

“Well, he was a scientist, the best. It was no wonder he found a way to curb the other side of her. Your side.”

The woman’s eyes glowed, as black silky fur formed along her skin. It looked different.

“It is such a loss. She would have made all of this easier. My precious, perfect specimen. My darling daughter.”

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