Betrayed Luna's Second Chance Alphas
Betrayed Luna’s Second Chance Alphas – Chapter 73

-Riley-

It almost felt normal. Wearing a beautiful dress. Dancing with my mates. Lauging. We all needed this break from everything that had been happening in our lives.

Deidre looked perfect and happy. She was glowing. Reid made his mark the usual way, and the witch helped Dee to make her own mark on Reid. It was beautiful to see her claiming what was hers.

“I can’t wait to claim the sexiest man alive,” Rene said and my eyes widened. Gem snorted.

“Look at this bitch… My man is the sexiest, but yes, Rome comes close second,” Gem said with a haughty look in her eyes.

“Rene… are you the one talking? I still can’t believe it,” I said to my Panther and she gave me a dainty nod. She was slowly coming out of her shell, and Roman and Adrian’s love was helping her. She still looked sad whenever mother was mentioned, but she was getting better.

“You look beautiful, my Riley,” Roman said as he handed me a glass of wine. I took it from him with a smile.

“Thank you, Rome. Wait, your mom is calling me,” I said to him and he pouted.

“You are spending more time with my mom today than with me,” he complained, looking adorable as hell, and I laughed.

“Oh, come on, Rome. Are you really pouting about that?” Adrian said with a smirk as he took Roman’s hand. “Come on, I will dance with you, Grumpy.”

“Who the hell wants to dance with you, dumbhead? Have you seen yourself in the mirror?”

I met these two men in a bar and decided to make a fool out of myself because Dee said I had to take revenge on Hiran. Now, here I was… and I couldn’t have asked for better men to be my partners. They were both amazing, and somehow they complimented each other too.

“I am handsome as hell,” Adrian said as he turned to look at me. “Am I not, Red?”

I traced his stubble with a chuckle. “You are, Ad, you really are…”

“She is lying to not hurt your feelings,” Roman grumbled as they both walked away. I walked towards where Alexia was standing with the king. The king gave me a bright smile.

“He looks happy. I had missed that side of him, after Feyona.”

“Talking about Feyona…” Finn sidled next to us and his father looked at him with an inquisitive look.

“Yes, did they replace Ramsay?”

“Nope. The Red Watchers and I went to his club, searched the whole property. It looked abandoned. We went to the underground club, too. The supernatural council wasn’t very pleased with what we did without their permission, but I think they had been thinking of changing Lord Ebenezer from the council already, so they didn’t bother too much about it. But we still don’t know who called Ramsay, and warned him.”

“You know what this means, don’t you?” The Queen asked as she looked at Finn. He nodded.

“We have a mole, and we have to replace who the hell it is,” he said with a worried look on his face. “But let’s not spoil the mood thinking about all of it today. We will replace Ramsay and bring him to justice. Riley’s father is working with doctor Tim to cure Dean, and I could see it is already helping. He didn’t look so pale anymore. So, come on, Riley, let’s dance.” Finn gave me his hand with a bow and I took it with a smile.

He spun me with gusto and I laughed. He didn’t look so sad anymore. Maybe my father really was helping.

“So… what do you think about being the next Queen?” I stopped and stepped on his legs and he yelped.

“Damn, my foot. Goddess, woman…”

“You can’t just throw that word around like it is something normal. I don’t think-“

“What? Have you not thought about that? Rome is the heir.”

“I don’t know. We haven’t talked about that. But I also think your mom and dad are not yet ready to retire. Do you think they are?” My eyes widened as I nervously looked at Finn and Finn laughed as he twirled me around before he pulled me towards him.

“What do you think?” He pointed to the direction where the queen was now dancing with Ryan and the king was dancing with Claire and Mirabel. They looked like they were having the time of their lives with the kids. “They are already ready for grandchildren.” Finn winked and I flushed red.

I was ready, but… I nervously searched for Roman and saw Roman and Adrian were talking with Reid, while Dee was talking with Adrian’s mother.

“Sorry, sorry. I didn’t mean to say all of that and scare you. I just thought you had already talked about all of that,” he said. I shook my head.

“No, it is okay. We haven’t talked about it. There was so much going on and we almost forgot.

“Of course. The whole month has been one thing after the other.”

“So did you save the wolves from Ramsay’s club? How are they doing?”

“Yes, we did help as many as we could, and we sent the ones who didn’t know their pack to a small pack in Idaho. My father is a close friend of the previous Alpha and they are all really good people and we know they will help the wounded wolves. There were some still in Red Watchers’ hospital, being treated. I think a few were from your pack, I mean, the old one.”

“You sure?”

“I think so. Dustin talked with them, and one of them said he was from Crystal Park, and his wife was unconscious.”

“Oh, I have to meet them tomorrow,” I said with a sad smile. “If they are from Crystal Park, they will go back to Crystal Park. Reid will take care of them.”

“Yes. I know these people are saved now, but there are still many like them, and the only way to help everyone is to stop the whole racketeering ring, is to identify all the Alphas and wolves who are involved in this… it has always been a struggle, to completely stop this, but we will replace a way.” He looked optimistic and fierce. “It isn’t the doctor, or your mom, or Ramsay… So who is it?”

I sighed as the song ended and he let me go. “I kept thinking about it, too. My dad said it was a human right. So who is this person? Where is he? This started when I was young. Is he old now, and almost dying? That is why he is so desperate for this experiment to be a success? To live a long life?”

“A lot of questions… that need to be answered.”

I nodded as I walked away and found Dee. “How are you bestie? I am so sad you have to leave tomorrow,” I said as I grabbed her hand in mine and she sighed.

“Yes, I don’t want to leave. I want to live here forever,” she said with a nervous smile. “I can’t – can you believe it. I am a Luna.”

“You are a Luna. You are THE LUNA, Dee. There is just no one like you,” I said with a smile as we danced.

“You are only saying it because I am your best friend, but how can I help them, Ri, when I don’t have a wolf?”

“You know, not that you are mated to Reid, it automatically connects you to the pack on some deeper level. And they will be loyal to you, and they will respect you. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have a wolf. It has never mattered. You saved me from the rogues. You helped me defeat Hiran. You were the one who was always getting me out of trouble, Dee, and you never needed a wolf for that. You will save them the same way.”

“And Finn just told me a few of the wolves the Red Watchers saved were from Crystal Park. Reid and you should visit them before you leave tomorrow.”

“Definitely. They will be going to Crystal Park with us, then…” she said. “So are we taking the pups back?” I looked at the kids and now they were all laughing with the king and the queen, but…

“I don’t know. I want to keep them with me. I have to talk about it with the king and the queen. Do you want to come with me?”

“Of course.”

We went to where the king and the queen were and Alex looked up at me with a questioning look.

“You look troubled. Why?”

“I-“

I stopped when Adrian and Roman joined us. Ash, Keller and Reid joined us when Dee motioned them. Bella had already left once the ceremony was over, to be back with Dean.

“We can feel you are sad about something. What is it?” Adrian asked.

“You know Dee is leaving tomorrow, and the kids…”

Adrian looked at the kids and shook his head. The queen looked sad, so was the king. They had become so fond of them in the short time.

“Do they really have to go?” the queen asked.

“It was their home, and we took them away. I think they do need stability. Roza and Linda will take care of them, but…” I knew I didn’t want to let them go. I wanted to keep them with me.

“Drian…” A sweet voice called. I looked down to see Mirabel lifting her hand up, motioning Adrian to pick her up. He picked her up and she smiled at him. They have shared a special kind of bond since the first time they met. Adrian picked her up and she giggled and wiped the frosting on his cheek. “Drian dirty,” she said. Adrian growled playfully.

“I am going to get you back for that, Mirabel. I am so going to get you.”

She laughed and shook her head. “Noooo. Mirabel, good girl.”

“No, bad, bad girl.”

They looked so happy in their own world, and all of the pups were mine in some way, but Mirabel and I… I have known her from when she was so little. I sat with her through the night when she wouldn’t sleep. I watched her grow up. I was there when she took her first step, said her first word. And Ethan was still here.

“Riley…” Adrian whispered as he looked at me, and motioned me to the side. I somehow knew what he wanted to tell me.

“What?”

“Mirabel… can we keep her?”

“Yes, she will stay with us,” I said with a sigh.

“And everyone else too,” the queen said as she pointed to the ten kids standing around. “We are a big pack and we can take care of them. I mean, if they want to say. If they want to go, they can go back with Linda and Roza back to their home.”

I smiled at her. She was the best person in the whole world.

“So kids, tomorrow Alpha Reid and Linda and Roza and Dee will be leaving. If you want to go with them, you can go with them. If you want to stay here…”

Mirabel clung to Adrian’s neck. “Drian. I stay. Lee and you and me…”

I smiled at her and nodded.

Four of the older kids wanted to go back with Linda and Roza. They had friends back at the pack, and they loved Reid.

Claire looked at Finn who was dancing with a woman, and shook her head.

“Will Finn be there back at Crystal Park?”

“No, this is Finn’s home.”

“I stay.”

Ryan huffed. “I am staying with Claire.”

Bailey asked, “what about school? I need to study.”

“Nerdy Bee,” Ryan said with a smile as he always called her that. “They have schools here.”

“Then I stay with Ryan and Claire.”

Six kids decided they wanted to stay with us, and, of course, I was happy as hell.

The four decided they would go back with Roza and Linda.

“I will miss you guys,” I said as I looked at them. “But Luna Dee will take the best care of you.”

“Yes, I will.”

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-Ramsay-

“No, I am not doing it. I am done,” I said as I glared at the phone. The voice on the other end didn’t sound too pleased to hear my reply.

“You know… it doesn’t work like that? You think you can run away and hide and I would let you live in peace? NO. I will replace you.”

I had never been scared of anything in my life. But something in his voice made me want to run fast and far away.

“What will you do? You are just a human and we are-“

His laughter cut me off. “JUST HUMAN? JUST? You have been working for this just human half your life, Ramsay. I paid for your underground club, I paid for your strange hobbies. You promised me the drug, and you are going to get me that or that pretty girl you keep next to you, the one with the colorful hair… yeah, her… she will not live.”

“Who the f**k are you? If you touch her, I will wipe your entire generation from the face of the Earth.”

He laughed again.

“You don’t need to know who I am, but you need to understand that I am not letting this go. Let’s talk right after you replace a way to get Hiran out of the cell he was in, Ramsay, and then you will get me the specimen.”

“Specimen?”

“The girl with three animals inside her. Yes, her.”

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OKAY. I need some good comments to cheer me up. I feel so down. So help me?