Betrayed Luna's Second Chance Alphas
Betrayed Luna’s Second Chance Alphas – Chapter 65

-Finn-

“Doctor Tim, have you made any progress?” I asked as I stalked inside the lab, staring at the creatures. Their roars and grunts had already become a part of the lab’s everyday sound.

Doctor Tim nodded. “I don’t think this drug is designed for them, not like this. It could curb Riley’s creature, because hers is different, and not fully transformed into this…” the doctor said with a sad smile. We didn’r even know what to call these things. “From the b***d test and the test I did on the drugs, it seems like the drug in the vial was especially designed to match the genetic makeup of Riley. It was custom made for her, to contain this side inside her, and to also make her recessive gene dominant. That was how her wolf was here now. Her father must have been quite a scientist. This was so advanced for his time. He could do a lot with the technology we have right now.”

“Is there no way to help them, doctor?” I said as I looked at them. They were like rabid animals. There was no trace of humanity left in them, but when we gave them the drug in the vial, they showed us a flash of who they were, and then they went back to the grunting animals. “He has a little girl, doctor,” I said with a wince.

“I am trying, but I don’t think we can fully bring them back to what they were. They might have these moments of clarity, but it wouldn’t last. Their physical changes would stay, too.”

“It is so horrible. Okay, doctor Tim, I am going to meet Dustin. We have new information from Adrian, and we are going to check it out right now,” I said as I walked towards Dustin’s office. He was busy typing on his laptop. He stopped when he saw me, and motioned me to come in, a look of urgency in his eyes.

“Here…”

“What?”

“The name Adrian sent… there were three properties linked to that name in remote locations. It was buried in shell corporations and more names, but here it is. I think that is it. Lizzie did an electrical sweep of that area, and this particular building consumes a lot of electricity for a supposedly empty storage space.”

My eyes sharpened as I sat down. I prayed with all my heart that this was it. We had already exhausted all our options for replaceing Dean. If this failed, too, I didn’t know what I would do. I might just kill Ramsay, and bring about a war that all of us were trying to avoid.

“We should leave now,” I said as I grabbed my gun and looked at Dustin. He sighed. “Why the hell are you not moving?”

“I just called Ivanna,” he said with a wince. Ivanna was one of the head of Red Watchers, USA.

“And?”

“She said not to rush into this.”

“f**k. This is becoming political, when it should be about saving a fellow Red Watcher. We were the ones who sent him there, and we were responsible for what happened to him, and it is about time we owe our mistake and stop wrenching our hands.”

Dustin shook his head. “I understand.”

“No, you don’t. Nobody does. If this isn’t Red Watcher’s business, then I am going to leave all of this here, and go on my own, because it is my business.”

“Just give me a few minutes,” Dustin said as he grabbed his phone. “I will talk with Ivanna.”

“I am going to talk with my dad. If she couldn’t, my dad could,” I said as I walked out and drove towards Nightshade.

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-Riley-

“What did Adrian want?” I asked as Roman rolled next to me, pulling me closer to his body. I stared at the darkening sky with a sigh. This was perfect, but I knew it was already coming to an end.

The dream was over. The reality was coming back.

“He read the journal and he has some information. He told us to take our time, though,” Roman said as he ran his fingers through my hair. “Are you okay, Riley? I knew everything that has happened was too much for you. You are amazing and brave, but I still want to ask… are you okay?”

I took a deep breath.

Am I okay?

“No, I am not okay, but having you and Adrian here with me, it helps. This- all of this was beyond anything I have ever thought about, and it is overwhelming. Sometimes, I feel like I can’t breathe, just thinking about all of this. But… I will be alright,” I said as I stood up and quickly wore my dress. Roman looked up from the floor, still half naked.

I traced his body with my eyes and smiled at him.

“If you ever need anyone to talk to, you know where to replace me, right?”

“I know, Rome, I do know…” I said as I gave him my hand and he jumped up and pulled me into a hug.

“We will get through this, Riley. You, me and Adrian, we are stronger together. We will deal with this, together,” Roman said as he planted a k**s on my forehead.

“You know what this new information is?”

“He said something about how your mother might know where you are,” Roman said, and I looked at him with intrigue.

“But how can she know? Maybe it is the Doctor. He saw me that day in the subway and I was so sure he recognized me. Maybe he really did,” I said with a growl. “But I don’t care if she comes for me. I am ready, Roman, and I am not so helpless, not anymore.”

“No, you are not,” Roman said as he caressed my cheek, his thumb soft and comforting. “And we are ready. When the time comes, she will go down.”

“She will… I will make sure of that. I am starting to remember more and more, Roman, and each memory makes me hate her even more so than before,” I whispered as Rene stirred inside me.

“Riley…”

“Tell me? What is wrong?”

“I tried to tell you before…” Rene said hesitantly.

“What? What did you try to tell me?” I asked, confused.

“About mother.”

“You call her mother, too?” I said with a blink and Rene looked at me, her eyes guilty. What was she so guilty about? I understood that Rene felt a connection to Nadia, but… she shouldn’t have to be ashamed about it.

“I do. I always did. And now that I have shifted, I think mother knows… where we are. It is like a beacon, our energy, and I am sure it calls to her power and our bond,” Rene said without hesitating for once. She looked afraid, and also sad. Like… she wanted to replace a way to make it work with my mother?

“Do you miss her?”

“You are Marcus’s daughter, but Mother has always been so kind to me, and I – I am sorry…”

“You don’t have to be, Rene, but our mother was not really a good person.”

“But she was to me. She gave me chocolates, she told me that I was important, and-“

“And she is a master manipulator, Rene. I know you don’t understand everything now, but just trust me on this one. MOTHER IS EVIL. BAD,” I stressed. Now that I heard her thoughts, I was worried that Rene might do something drastic.

This was the time blocking out the other sides in me could have worked. I really did need to talk with the hybrid woman Roman told me about.

We pulled the door open and walked to Roman’s room. He opened the door and looked around. The room smelled like Adrian, but Adrian wasn’t here at all. Where did he go?

I saw the journal on the bedside table and grabbed it.

The last thing Adrian read was still open. I grabbed it and read it. It was about Rene.

“Here, drink this,” Roman handed me a glass of something. I took a sip of it and sighed.

“Is this some kind of abomination you made me the first night?”

“Something like that. It is good for health, and it helps when you are really stressed.”

“You should have been a witch,” I said as I finished it in a single gulp and handed the glass back to him. He chuckled and grabbed it from me as I continued to leaf through the journal, wondering if my dad knew anything more about the laboratory.

I was reading another journal entry, where my father talked about how I was an accident, and that they had done the experiment on him…when the door opened. I looked up to see Adrian walking in.

He gave me a soft smile. “How are you?” he said as he walked next to me and pressed his lips on my head. I sighed.

“Reading this is… it is overwhelming.”

“It is overwhelming, even for me, but I found something precious in between the pages,” Adrian said to me as he handed me the bag he was carrying.

“What is it?”

“Open it,” Adrian said as he gently pried the diary away from my fingers.

I pulled it out of the cover and narrowed my eyes when I saw that it was a photo Album. What was this?

I opened it and gasped loudly when I saw a little baby with red, whispy hair. Me. It was me. It was my baby picture. Under the picture, Adrian had written, Emorilee Vanessa Andreas-Lowe. Weight: 8 pounds. Chubby baby. Hair color: Red. Eye color: Green.

“That is your name. It is quite a mouthful,” Adrian chuckled. I leafed through the photo album, my heart feeling quite not so empty with each picture, my mind trying to somehow replace a way to fill in the gap of the moments in my head. “Just enjoy it, Emorilee. You can think about it later. Sometimes you are allowed to enjoy it without having to force yourself to think about it.”

There were little snippets of my life, taken from the diary, written on the album. This was perfect. He even found a baby picture of himself and Roman, a picture of Dee and Keller and me, a few of just mine, one of my picture where I was baking and makinga mess. He might have gotten the picture from Dee.

He had added them all to make a reel of my life.

For someone who had nothing, who didn’t even have a last name… this was everything. What he did for me was everything.

This was my life, recorded in pictures. A life, I almost didn’t know existed until a day ago, but this was still my life.

I looked up at Adrian, my heart running in my throat. I felt like my throat was closed… “Thank you, Adrian. This is perfect,” I whispered as I ran my finger along the embossed name at the front. He touched my finger with his, and used his finger to push it along my name.

“Adrian?”

“Yes, Red, do not cry. I know I am amazing, and I have to one-up Roman,” Adrian said with a teasing chuckle, but I knew he was only joking.

“You are. You are amazing, Adrian, and I love you.”

His eyes widened as he took a step back and almost fell down on the ground.

“That is one hell of a reaction,” Gem said with a snort. He almost looked afraid.

“Adrian? Ad? You alright?”

“Was I hallucinating? Did you really just tell me-“

“I LOVE YOU, Adrian. I love Roman. I love Karl and Clay. That is four already, and I feel like such a greedy h*e, but that is who I am and I am not choosing between you when I don’t have to.”

“Of course, you don’t have to,” Adrian said finally. “I love you, too, Riley. Something pulled me to you that first night. It was an invisible thread of fate, and I was glad I followed it.”

“Well, I followed it. You fell asleep after drinking a few bottles,” I chuckled as he wrapped an arm arond my neck. Roman joined us as I opened the album once again and leafed through all of the pictures. They were perfect.

“This is my life,” I said as I closed the book.

“It is only starting now, Kitten. Don’t worry. You will have everything you desire… right here on these empty pages.”

“Hey Rome,” Adrian called.

“Yes?” Roman looked at his friend with a frown, as if he already knew what was going on inside Adrian’s head.

“Are you the one writing this poetry, or is it Karl?”

“Go f**k yourself, you idiot.”

“I would rather f**k her,” Adrian said as he poked his tongue out, making Roman growl.

They were bantering back and forth, when someone knocked on the door. Roman and Adrian stopped fighting and stood up.

Adrian opened the door and Finn barged in. “You are right. The property is under Emorilee Vanessa Andreas-Lowe, and I am leaving in a few minutes. I am done waiting. I couldn’t wait, not after I saw the result of their experiments,” Finn shuddered.

“Yes, I do think it is time to act,” Adrian said. “We have wasted a long time.”

“You are right, Finn. And take me with you. I could be the… bait.”

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