Betrayed Luna's Second Chance Alphas
Betrayed Luna’s Second Chance Alphas – Chapter 59

-Roman-

Riley screamed again, and I felt the vibration of her roar along my skin.

“What the hell is happening? Get that fuking ring off her finger,” Karl growled. “She is hurting so much.”

I could feel his pain, and his helplessness. I felt the same helplessness as I tried to get that ring off her finger. It just wouldn’t come off.

Riley curled to the floor, as Adrian rubbed her back up and down, but not even the bond was helping her.

“Is it the- red haze?” Adrian whispered to her and she shook her head, as drops of tears rolled down from the intense pain she was feeling. Somehow I could- I could sense her pain and suffering, too.

“No, no, Adrian,” she said through gritted teeth. “My bones… it feels like how it felt during my first shift. No, it wasn’t that painful during my first shift.”

I shuddered remembering my first shift. It was always the most painful. If what she felt was more painful than that… I couldn’t even imagine it.

“I shouldn’t have put the damn ring on. What the hell is this? Ring of f*****g pain?” she said with a scowl, as she shook her head. Even with tears running down her cheeks, she looked like a warrior queen.

And then she stilled before her body twisted into a weird pretzel. A loud growl left her lips and her eyes snapped up to meet mine. They glowed a strange yellow. It wasn’t Riley’s eyes. It wasn’t Gem’s glowing green eyes. Those weren’t the weird red eyes.

f**k me to hell.

“What is this woman? Where the hell did we replace her?” Karl said as he stared at her. She blinked and sharp claws protruded out of her nails and dark black silky fur covered her hand.

“Rene…” I whispered, surprised and shocked. The creature was right. It was her, but how did the creature know it was her?

Karl howled inside my head, feeling cranky and agitated. He wanted to come out and destroy everything and everyone who dared hurt her. He was always overprotective of her, but now it was even more intense than before.

“You okay, Karl?”

“Just protect her. Stop this, whatever this is. It is hurting her.”

“I will, but this- it is part of her, and we can’t keep it away from her. She deserves to know what she is. You know that, right?”

“Riley? Riley?” Adrian took a step closer to her and she snarled at him. His eyes widened as he stumbled back. She shook her head as her fire red hair slowly, slowly turned into a dark, midnight black, matching the silky fur on her hand.

“What is happening?” Adrian whispered as he tried to get closer to her again and she snapped her teeth. She looked like a feral, but also a skittish animal. “This is- madness.”

“Get away, Adrian. Just- just wait for her to calm down. She doesn’t trust you or me, or any of us. This isn’t Riley or Gem, or that other creature,” I said to him as I studied her. She kept looking around, her eyes frustrated, confused. She pushed the things that were on my table with a single swipe of her hand and roared. A vase was next. She smashed my chair next.

“What the hell is this, then?”

“Something else, but… it doesn’t matter. We just need to give her some space for her to calm down and understand all of this. She looks spooked and scared.”

“She does,” he said. “I wish I could help her, but my bond… I don’t think it is working on this one. I could even calm Riley down when she almost turned into that like when she attacked Hiran,” Adrian said with a pensive look in his eyes. We looked at her. She was crouched low, her body bent, as if she was waiting to pounce on us if we took another step forward.

“We are not going to hurt you. You can ask Riley. She knows us.”

She snarled again and swiped her paws forward, and I could almost hear it cut through the air.

The sound was metallic, tinny.

“Look at me. Look,” I said to the – whatever the hell she was. She stared at my laptop in her hand. I was sure it was going to die. But it was alright. I could buy a new one. She was the one I had to help right now. “It is alright. We don’t know who you are, or what happened to you, but you are a part of the woman we love… and we will not let anything happen to you. It is okay to be afraid. Take your time. Just realize that we won’t hurt you ever,” I said and she

Thank the goddess that all the rooms in this building were soundproof, or the whole gang of Red Watchers would be here. They were all nosy.

She hesitantly put the laptop down, and grabbed her hair in her claws and tugged. Sharp canines came out of her lips as she looked at me, finally at me. And her body stopped moving. She placed a hand on the laptop.

“You remember who you are? What you are?”

She shook her head and blinked and then walked forwards. Toward ME? Her eyes were hard and her lips were still peeled open to show those sharp canines.

Was she going to kick me in the nuts for asking question?

“Oh hell no, not my nuts,” Karl said. “We need them for making little Rileys.”

“The hell Karl? Is this the time to think about little Ril-“

“You were thinking too.”

“Yes, only after you mentioned.”

I took a step back as she stopped in front of me. She raised her hand up and I stood there, not knowing what to do. Claws, like f*****g knives. Oh, no, no.

“Come on, run. What is she doing?”

A sharp breath left my lips when she finally placed her palm on my cheek.

“Thank Goddess.”

“Yeah, it is alright, Rene,” I whispered and her eyes widened as she let out a soft whimper.

“Rene,” she repeated, and I nodded. Her hand softly traced my jaw before she looked up at me. “You?”

“She is asking your name after almost giving me a heart attack?” Karl said with an indignant huff.

“Me? I am Roman, Rene. It is nice to meet you.”

“Roman,” she repeated again before she looked at Adrian and pointed a sharp claw at him. He was still looking shocked. He finally blinked and shook his head.

“Adrian. I am Adrian. Do you know what you are, Rene?”

She shook her head.

We had seen a lot, but neither of us had any idea what was really going on here.

This wasn’t a Lycan. Lycan was a part of our wolves, too. Like I only had Karl, and he shifted both into his Lycan and into his wolf. And a werewolf could only shift into their wolves.

And also this wasn’t Gem. This was something else entirely. And it was strange. It didn’t usually happen like that, but Riley was… something different, unusual, already.

When a hybrid is born, only one side of the hybrid will be potent and discerning. Usually, the other side will remain dormant.

Even when they are a hybrid, they can only shape shift into the one with the dominant gene. The recessive genes will be there, but they won’t contribute to anything more. Maybe it will add more strength, agility, and improve the physical traits of the human host, but they could only shift into one species.

A baby born between a werewolf and a werecat would have both the wolf and the cat’s reflexes, healing power, and the consciousness, too, that one would hear as voices. But because a wolf’s gene is dominant when compared to the cat, the offspring hybrid would only shift into a wolf, but not into a cat.

“No,” she whispered. “No? What am I? Dark. So dark.”

“Take a deep breath. Do you want something to eat? Drink?”

“Drink…” she poked her tongue out through her canines as if to show me she was thirsty, and I nodded as I walked to the mini-refrigerator to the side and grabbed a bottled water. I handed it to her and her fingers trembled before she took a quick gulp of it. She looked like she had been thirsty for years. Maybe she was.

If Riley knew Rene… when she was only a little girl, then this part of her was there even before Gem. How could it even be possible?

The more answers we found, the more confused I became. This was impossible. This was against everything we had learned as kids in the school where only we went, that would teach us about supernatural species around us, and how they worked. This was definitely not how they worked. I knew that much.

She looked like she had calmed down a little. She still had her yellow eyes and claws and her black hair and fur though.

Was that all? This looked only like a half-transformation.

“Do you have any idea what the hell is going on here?” Adrian whispered/hissed next to me, looking just as confused as me. “Should we call-“

I shook my head. I didn’t want to call anyone until we figured this out first.

“Grab that diary. Find any entry that mentions the ring?”

“We should have done that first before Riley wore the ring. We were idiots,” Adrian said with a frown as he grabbed the diary and started leafing through the page as I stood there, just staring at Rene.

And then I saw her flinching, and the ring glowed. The light scattered inside the walls as a small whimper left her lips.

It was happening again.

“Could this be the full transformation?” Karl looked worried. I was too, but I was also curious to know what the hell she was.

“Rene?”

“Ow. STOP, no,” she hissed as her hands hit the rug. She clawed against the rug, and I winced as her claws dug into the rug and tore it.

I touched my back and she snarled, her eyes burning bright. The yellow shone like bright amber and soon fur started covering her body as her body bent out of shape. It twisted. She cried out.

Adrian stood up, the diary still clutched between his fingers.

I tried to use my power to ease the pain, but I had a feeling that she still felt the pain.

And then I saw it. She finally stood on four legs. Her bright eyes met mine.

Karl stilled.

My body buzzed with energy and power.

She snarled.

“She is a werepanther. I – they were extinct, weren’t they?” Adrian’s voice was a distant echo, amid the clamor in my head. Karl’s body trembled.

Something was odd. I didn’t know what, though.

Her lips peeled back as she walked towards me. She was massive, bigger than Gem.

If she could… she could take me. And Adrian, too.

The room felt small when she was there.

And then she bumped against my leg and our eyes met.

My whole world stilled and the tilted.

She looked like she was smiling. Was she? She knew, didn’t she.

“MATE.”

The word I had been wishing, hoping to hear for so long rang through my head.

My eyes felt… weird.

“Are you crying, Rome?” Karl said with an amused smile, but he didn’t look much better than me. His eyes were just as wet.

“It is allergy,” I said to the wolf before I looked down at the panther in front of me. She was marvellous, and she was… unique. She was powerful, too. I could feel her power, her strong aura.

Riley’s Alpha b***d was not from her wolf. It was from this creature, that was mostly extinct.

She bumped into my leg again, as if she wanted more attention. I ran my finger through her silky black fur.

I had been wondering how what I felt for Riley could just be, only be love, but it wasn’t just that. It was everything.

The pull was stronger than before. It had always been there, though, from the very first night.

“Our kids are going to be little hybrids with beautiful gree eyes and red hair. With a Lycan, a wolf and a panther. How cool would that be?”

“You- you are- mine, too.”

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