Betrayed Luna's Second Chance Alphas
Betrayed Luna’s Second Chance Alphas – Chapter 78

-Finn-

WHY? Everything in me wanted to scream that one word over and over again. I had worked with him as long as I could remember. I considered him kind of my mentor. He was someone I had looked up to, and to see him like this was making me furious. My lycan growled inside my head.

“How did this human outsmart all of us?” Kai was enraged.

How was he the one behind all of this madness?

Chief Matthews already knew who attacked the humans and left them for dead — it was a part of his experiment, and yet he had the guts to show us the pictures and pretend like a good guy. We were running in circles all the while he was sitting in the middle, laughing at us.

I made me so angry. I growled at him and gripped his shirt tighter as I pulled closer to him.

“You are done hiding. You are done making a fool of us.”

“I did make a fool out of you all,” he said, unphased by everything that was happening around him.

“You are not going anywhere. The only place you are going is jail,” I said as I grabbed him by his collar and pulled him towards me and growled, my anger radiating off of me in waves.

He gave me a look that was just too haughty. Even after all of this… he looked like he was the one who had the upper hand. What was he planning?

“Okay,” he said.

I opened the back door and pushed him inside. I entered along with him and motioned to Weston to joined me, with Iva. They were all part of the Red Watchers. “Drive the car,” I said to West. “Go straight to Red Watchers building. Don’t stop for anything.”

“Wait, let me replace a few more guys. I don’t think we should transport him by ourselves,” Iva said as she jumped out of the car. It was more like a police transport vehicle than a car, anyway. It was secure.

“He is just a human,” Weston said with narrowed eyes. “What can he do to us?”

“No, West, Iva is right. He has been playing this for a long time, and he almost won. He could have too…” I said with a deep sigh as Iva walked back with a bunch of guys. “They will follow us in a car behind and before us.”

“Like real prison transportation,” Chief Mattews said with a chuckle. “I am impressed by your smartness and your ability to work diligently. Most wolves always rush into things first and then think later,” he said. “You do make good cops. I would have loved to have you on my side. But this is war, and you are not on my side.”

“Obviously,” Weston said. “We are never going to be on your f*****g side.” He started the jeep/car. I mind-linked Roman who was still busy fighting off some men.

“You will be okay here?”

“Yes, don’t worry. I will take care of these little assholes. Just get him out of there and call dad,” Roman said.

“You are hurt. Are you okay?”

“Closer to my feet. It is aconitum, but I can take it. Now take the a*****e back, and you know what, stay right there.”

West started the vehicle and I stared at the man looking there with a stern look in his eyes.

“Why help us, though?” I said finally, unable to stop myself. I was really curious to know that. He had been helpful, every damn time. Why?

“Did I really help you though?” he said with a shrug. “I helped you in a way that it won’t bother my experiment in any way,” he said with a nod. “I really needed this, and I still do. You know… a desperate man will go to any length to get what he wants. I am desperate.”

“Why? To live longer? Why do you have to?”

“Can you tell me how old I am?” he asked, quirking his brows.

“60? I don’t know what games we are playing here?”

“You will never know. None of you will, because it is my game, and I will always win. And you are wrong.”

“Wrong?”

“I am not 60. I am 105.”

My eyes widened. “Nobody said your experiment was a success,” I said as Iva turned around with a gasp.

“Before Dean and Marcus, I had a semi-successful wolf host. But it was only a beginning. You think you have succeeded by capturing me? No.”

“Yeah? Shut the f**k up. You are handcuffed in a car and you will not be going anywhere.”

Chief Matthews just leaned back and smiled.

“Yes.”

***

-Riley-

“So this man is a cop?” I asked Adrian as we ran towards Roman. Guys from the Red Watchers were already fighting with the humans. They still looked robotic, programmed.

Were they under the influence of the drugs Hiran tried to use on me? The one which makes a person really compliant?

The look in their eyes… I knew it. It was the same way Hiran looked when I gave him the drug, after he failed to control me. They were trying to resist, but… they couldn’t.

But who was giving them the order? No one was around?

“Karl, don’t kill them,” I shouted as I kicked one of the humans down. “They are under the influence of a drug. You know the one Hiran tried on me…”

Karl growled and shook his head in anger.

“But who is controlling them?”

“f**k. Look at their ears,” Adrian said as he grabbed one of the humans and pulled a small device out of his ear. “It is a record of someone ordering them to fight and kill.”

“But they are stronger. How are they stronger? How can they fight against Karl and still stand?” Adrian said with a frown as he grabbed another man by his hair and removed his device.

“This whole fuckery is more science than supernatural or magic, Adrian. Do you even want to know? They have drugs for every f*****g thing,” I said with a grunt.

The one Adrian removed the ear device from looked confused as he looked around.

“What is going on? Where am I?”

“Do you see that white and red van. Go sit there. We will take you to a hospital soon,” I said to him and he nodded and walked with the second man towards the van.

Adrian told the others to remove the device they were wearing. Once it was removed, we herded them all into a van. It was chaos, and loud, but the drug still in the system made them obey to our orders, and they did as they were asked.

“The drug…actually wanes on its own. For now, we just need to keep them under observation, but I think they will be fine?” I said as I looked at Roman. He had finally shifted back. He was limping. I looked at his leg, and saw the wound was still bleeding.

“Yeah, you are right. Dustin and Richard will take them back. And Nadia, you did help us this time, but you are going back to your cell with them.”

I looked at my mother as she gave him a nod. She looked edgy and I had a feeling she was thinking of bolting.

“Do not run,” I said. “We will catch you.”

“I am not going to run anymore, Riley. I am so tired of running,” she said as she gave me a soft smile. “I just wish…” she trailed off and shook her head.

“Can I ask you one last thing? I do need closure. Dad said I do. And I trust him. Why? Why did you do all of this? Why did you hurt me? Was it all for money? Fame? Making history? Why was all of that more important to you than me, or Marcus?” It was still a kick in my heart to know that I wasn’t important.

She loved Rene, in her own twisted way, but I was… always only a means to an end, and that stung. I didn’t want to feel the sting in my heart, but it didn’t go away.

“I- this was not an excuse. But before Marcus, before everything… I had a daughter. I adopted her. She is human, she is 14 when she died. She had congenital heart disease and… she had leukemia. It was… her death was brutal. I couldn’t- it changed me.”

“So you decided that you would just use me and not love me? You have never loved me like the way you loved this daughter of yours…”

For a second, I was jealous of this girl that she had loved more than her own b***d. I didn’t want it to sting, but it did.

When I just thought she was evil, it didn’t make me feel hollow and broken, but to replace out that a ghost of a human girl had pushed my mother to do everything she did, it was really a kick in my heart. I hated that it affected me so much, but it did.

Nadia took in a deep breath and sighed. “I- I didn’t know how to love after that. A part of me just died along with… her, and no, I didn’t say this as an excuse. I did what I did, knowing very well it was immoral, that it was unfair to you. And I did it anyway. I am sorry… it is all I can say right now, Riley. I understand that you will never forgive me, but just know that it isn’t you. I- I am too broken to love someone. But you have these two amazing men.”

“You helped us today and saved Riley and we will forever be grateful for that, but that doesn’t make any of the things you have done less evil,” Roman said as he handcuffed her.

“You didn’t deserve an amazing daughter like Riley. Whatever that was, that wasn’t an excuse,” Adrian said as he called for Dustin. “Take her back to her cell.”

She gave me a soft look. “I hope you will always be happy with them, Riley.”

“I know I will,” I said. She gave me a nod and walked with Dustin.

“And you need to check your wound, Roman? Come on, let’s go back to Nightshade,” I said to him and he shook his head.

“I am alright, don’t worry about me, Riley. But where the f**k is Ramsay?”

“Oh, that weasel might have slipped right out from under our noses. But he won’t run too far. We will replace him,” Adrian said. “And Riley is right. We need to cut that bullet out of your damn leg. For now, just use your magic to take some of the pain off?”

“Yeah, he is right,” I said to Roman and he shook his head.

“No, I am okay.”

“Shut the f**k up, Rome. You are not okay. You are limping. We will catch him, and he will go back to prison, where he belongs. But now, my only concern is you, and I want you to stop fighting me about this.”

“Oh Kitten, you look really sexy when you growl,” Roman said with a smirk and I slapped him against his shoulder.

“You are an i***t, Roman Night. Come on.”

We walked towards Adrian’s car. Adrian gasped and then touched the car with a sigh, his eyes sad. “My poor baby. Does it hurt, Onyx?”

“I am going to kick you in the a*s, Adrian. Is it time to talk with your car?”

“What? She is hurt too. I can see three bullet holes,” Adrian said with a long sigh before he got inside the car and he drove to Nightshade. I leaned against Roman’s shoulder and took his hand in mine.

“Hey Rome…”

“Yes?”

“This is over, isn’t it?” I asked with a frown. “I can’t wait to go to the Culinary institute and start my shop. This is really over, right?”

“I think it is, but even if it is not, you will go to the culinary institute and do whatever you dream of doing, Riley, because life stops for nothing. Ad and I will be your bodyguards.”

“Hmm… I don’t want to take you to college, because I am sure college girls will want to seduce you…” I said with a wink and he poked me in my forehead.

“Well, they can try, but no one can seduce us, except you, Red. Just a look from you is enough to stop my world and it started new again, at that moment when my eyes met yours.”

“Our world,” Roman said as he kissed me in my cheek. “And Riley, you know, before we were interrupted at the shop…”

“Yes?”

“Kitten, we will be honored, if you let us mark you and-“

“Make you ours, and for you to mark us, and makes us yours, Red.”

I looked at the two guys and blinked my tears away. So what if I had a mother who didn’t love me enough? I had people in my life who would give their lives for me, like these two guys.

Maybe the moon goddess gave me two men who loved me with everything in them, who cherished me, to fill the emptiness I had in my life for a long time.

“YES. I want nothing more than to mark you and let the whole world know you are mine,” I said as I looked at them. “And will you love me like this, always? Will you promise that there won’t ever come a day where you will replace me for something, someon-“

“NEVER,” Adrian said. “You are not going to get rid of us that easily.”

“What he said, Riley, because there is just no one else in this world for us, except YOU.”

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