Betrayed Luna's Second Chance Alphas
Betrayed Luna’s Second Chance Alphas – Chapter 58

-Riley-

After the doctor took my b***d, Adrian and Roman went to talk with someone else, and I stayed in the lab. The walls were too white, too clinical.

It wasn’t quiet, though. The creatures kept roaring and snarling. I walked closer to the cage and they both stopped banging against the bars, and stared, eyes blazing with fire red. I felt the gaze straight at my soul. Penentrating. Scorching. And they roared together.

They didn’t deserve this, whoever they were.

“I am so sorry you have to go through this,” I said in a soft voice and the creatures stopped roaring and stared at me as if they understood me. “You don’t deserve it. Nobody does. I don’t deserve it either. But I am going to do everything I can to help you two,” I said, and the creatures’ eyes widened.

“Do you understand me?”

Could they?

One of them… it looked like a man, even though both of them were bald and wearing loose, ripped clothes.

“B***D.”

The word came out like a rusty, loud growl, but I heard it. B***d. Did I hear it right? They said the creatures only grunted and roared. Nobody said they talked.

He was asking for b***d. They said the creatures couldn’t talk. So how could it ask me for b***d?

I looked around, and everyone was busy doing whatever they were doing. Roman was talking with a few men, as one of them kept typing on his laptop. I assumed they were looking for more locations where they might be hiding.

“No other place linked to the doctor’s name. We checked the properties and they were all empty,” the man typing on the computer said. “I had tried Ramsay’s name, Hiran’s name, too. Nothing is popping up.”

Roman scratched his chin and growled, looking agitated and angry.

“The other name. Did you search for it?”

“Nadia, right. I did it, too, but nothing came,” the computer guy said. I winced a little when I heard her name.

“Nadia and Kasper, they are both assholes,” I hissed in anger. “I wish I could hurt them somehow.”

“We will. When we replace them, I am going to pinch them straight through their hearts for putting you through this,” Gem said. “You are a part of me, and it is my job to protect you now, and I will.”

“I know you will, Gem. I know you will.”

Roman looked nervous as his eyes flickered to mine before he looked at the computer guy.

“Search Marcus Lowe,” he said finally, and I sighed. I hoped they would replace something, and replace Dean. It was getting desperate. It had been so many days since Dean was lost, and I could see how much it affected all of them, even when they tried to be brave.

My eyes met Roman’s and he whispered sorry before he looked down on the floor. He had nothing to be sorry about. It was logical, what he did, and my mother, she was smart. She could have used my dad’s name to purchase property that would turn into a secret facility where she experimented on wolves.

I turned away from them and flinched when I met the eyes of the creature. The second one kept looking at me, its red eyes narrowed into a slit. It didn’t look too pleased.

They looked really ugly, but I felt sad than disgusted. Before this, they would have had a life, and now, they had nothing.

The one who asked for my b***d shook his head, growling as he did and then he let out a loud, painful howl. He scratched his face with his long claws, until weird whitish red goo oozed out of his skin. I winced.

“I am sorry. I am so sorry.”

“BABY.”

He growled again and grabbed on the bar and pushed his face between the bar, roaring as he did. His front incisors looked more noticeable as he snapped his teeth at me.

“B***D.”

“Roman?”

He stopped talking with the man and turned to look at me. “What is it, Riley? Don’t get too close to them,” he said in warning as he walked towards me. He put an arm around me as he pulled me closer. “What?”

“He- he talked.”

“No way,” the doctor Roman was talking with said. Roman called him Doctor Ayman. “These creatures have been roaring since they came here. No talking. We tried, but nothing happened.”

I shook my head. “I heard it. He said B***d, and then baby.”

“Are you sure?” Doctor Ayman asked and I nodded. I was sure. I heard it loud and clear, and I wasn’t hallucinating this time. The creatures had stopped roaring, too. “They have also stopped growling.”

I took in a deep breath. “He said, baby. He must have had a mate and a newborn before Ramsay and Kaspar did this to him,” I growled out. Anger filled my insides like a fierce storm. “It makes me sad to know that I could have- I could have turned out like this, too. No one deserves a fate like this.”

Roman tightened his arms and I snuggled closer, relishing his warmth. My body felt freezing cold, though.

“Why did my mother do this, Roman?”

I knew it was stupid, because he didn’t even know my mother, but sometimes I believed Roman had all the answers. He definitely had all the right words. He rubbed his hand along my arm before entwining his fingers with mine.

“Why did she hurt me, hurt them like this? What really happened back in that place? How was I like that? Who was Rene? Was she like Gem, or was she someone I knew when I was inside the…”

The creature next to the man howled, its voice laced with agony. Somehow, I could feel the creature’s pain. My stomach clenched. I looked into its burning red eyes, and the thing blinked and raised its claws. Sharp and shining. They were the perfect weapons.

“What?” I looked at the creature and she banged her head against the bar. “You want to say something?” I mumbled and shook my head. My stomach hurt just from looking at them.

The creature banged its head again before it snarled, and saliva dripped down the side of her mouth.

“RENE.”

My eyes widened as I looked at Roman. “You heard it, right? Roman…”

“Yes. It said Rene. I heard it.”

“What? Why?” I blinked and before I could march closer to where the creatures were and asked questions they might not even understand, Adrian walked in. “The drugs and your things came.”

“Oh. Did you ask anyone to bring it here?”

“Yeah, Finn will be here soon with the vials and the box, too, if you don’t want to wait to look at your father’s thing. I know you would want to see them,” Adrian said,-Cre and I gave him a nod. Adrian was always taking care of others, thinking about others. It surprised me. I had always thought I was a good person, but I had realized, I wasn’t as good as I had once assumed. Now, Adrian, he was truly good. The world needed more men like Adrian and Roman.

“I- the creatures were talking,” Roman said as he looked at Adrian. “To her.”

Adrian’s mouth hung open. “Is it true?”

“I nodded. This one… it said RENE, when I was talking with Roman about my dream…”

The creature howled again, and repeated once again, clearer than before…

“RENE.”

“What if this is Rene?” I whispered finally. I knew they were thinking about it and worried about saying it. “Are you Rene?” I looked at the creatures. I still couldn’t remember who Rene was, the one from my dream. Was it her?”

The creature shook her head, and pointed a finger towards me. “RENE.”

“Me? Rene?” I blinked. “Riley. I am Riley.”

The creature growled. Did she know me? How? Why?

“Ew. Ugly as fu.ck.”

I turned to see Finn walking in with a small bag in one hand and a box in the other.

“This is the drug,” he said to me before he handed me the other bag. “This belongs to you, Riley.” His smile was warm. Finn didn’t talk too much, either, but he had been kind to me since we met. He was just as good as Roman.

“Thanks for this,” I said to him and he nodded.

“Of course, Riley.”

Doctor Ayan opened the box with drugs, and he took out a vial containing bright yellow liquid. “Should we try it on them?” Finn asked and Doctor Ayan shook his head.

“First I need to replace out what exactly is in it. We couldn’t hurt them any more than they already were.”

“But Alpha James said I had been using that. And I am okay, so I don’t think it is going to hurt them.”

Doctor Ayan nodded. “True, but I still need to run at least a few quick tests.”

“Of course, doctor,” Roman said, and the doctor walked away with the vial. “I know you want to open the bag. Come on, I will take you somewhere private,” he said, and took my hand in his.

“Stay with me?” I said to him and he nodded. I didn’t think I could do it alone. I looked at Adrian, and he was nervously looking around, not meeting my eyes. I sighed. “Come on, Adrian,” I said to him and he gave me a smile that was brighter than the sun.

“I will stay here with the doctor and link you when he is done?” Finn said as he grabbed a chair and sat down. “Go on.”

“Thank you,” I said, and he smiled.

“Stop thanking me. One time is enough. And why would I not do this for you? We are family,” he said with a shrug, as if he was talking about something universal, something certain. He wasn’t even looking at me anymore. He was typing on his phone. I chuckled a little and looked at Roman. Roman shrugged.

We walked out, and walked along the narrow corridor before we reached a big hall that had so many cabins. We crossed the hall and soon Roman stopped in front of an office room. The door had a nameplate.

ROMAN NIGHT.

“This is your office?”

He nodded and grabbed a key from his backpocket and opened it. He took in a deep breath and smiled.

“I haven’t been here in a while.” He slumped on the couch as Adrian pulled open the window, letting the air and light in. I sat next to Roman, and Adrian joined me on the other side.

I took in a deep breath, trying to calm my nerves, but I was sure they could already hear my thundering heart.

“Go on,” Adrian said. My fingers slightly shook as I pulled the zipper open.

There was an old wooden bobblehead doll, a figurine of a wolf, a ring with some weird stone, and an old journal. I picked up the journal first and opened it.

His handwriting was an unrecognizable scrawl, and I could read half the s**t.

“This might take a decade or some to decode,” Adrian said with a grin as he leaned his head against my shoulder and looked at the journal.

Roman laughed. “Yes. His handwriting is more terrible than Adrian’s.”

“Mine is not terrible,” Adrian said.

I picked up the ring from the backpack and felt something passing through me. It was like a spark of power. The ring slipped form my fingers and fell on the rug with a soft thud.

“Did you see it?” Adrian asked and Roman nodded.

“The stone glowed when she touched it.”

“I-I feel weird,” I whispered as I grabbed my chest. My heart pounded furiously, and I felt it everywhere. “I felt like someone had shocked me when I touched-touched that.”

“It is alright,” Roman said as he grabbed it. It didn’t glow. “Here…”

I touched it and it glowed again.

“What the hell is that?”

“Whatever the hell it is, it only reacts to Riley’s touch. Like they were connected.”

The ring looked pretty. I stared at it for a second, before I pushed the ring into my finger and screamed as soon as I put it on. I felt the ripple of pain all over my body. It started from my back, slowly traveling up and down. My spine felt like someone was stomping on it. My intestines… it felt like someone was tearing it from the inside out.

“NO.”

“Riley? Riley? Get that ring off.”

Adrian grabbed my hand in his when he realized I couldn’t move my hand or fingers.

“It won’t f*****g come off.”

I screamed again as my bones felt like they were snapping into five hundred pieces and some more.

“Let me try… no, you are right. It looks like it is glued to her skin.”

!!!