Betrayed Luna's Second Chance Alphas
Betrayed Luna’s Second Chance Alphas – Chapter 42

-Riley-

“Everything is an illusion, Luna. Power is an illusion. You will learn it soon enough.” His eyes had transformed into a chilling void, and his voice was devoid of any trace of emotion. It sent shivers down my spine.

Even though I knew he was not in control this time, he still scared me on a deeper, primal level. He was not the easy enemy I had thought he would be. No, after hearing everything he did, I now knew. He was smart, manipulative and he succeeded in hiding it from me for two and half years.

I had always prided myself for being intelligent, but I was just a dumb, lovestruck woman. I was not smart. He was.

“Enough philosophy,” I said as I mind-linked Reid, to check whether he was awake or not. He answered after a few seconds.

“I am alright, Riley,” he sounded groggy and tired, but he was alright. “And I am going to kill that a*s.hole.”

“Get in the line. And Reid, please, bring me ropes infused in Aconitum and silve shackles,” I said to him and he agreed. I turned to Hiran.

Hiran shook his head.

“You won’t get away with this, Luna. I will make sure of that.”

“Hmm, is the drug wearing off?” I said as I took another dose and he winced.

Reid walked in with the rope and shackles I asked for. He lunged at Hiran and wrapped his hand around Hiran’s neck. “I told you I would kill you if you ever touched a hair on her head.”

“Let him go,” I said, and Reid blinked. “I need him. He knows a lot of things. Like how he did b***d magic to make me believe I was truly his mate.”

“You did what? Are you insane, you fucker? How are you even my brother? Mom and dad would be ashamed if they were alive now.”

“That is what I want to know, too. You are pathetic, you mangy piece of shit.”

“Just shackle this a*s.hole to the chair,” I said and Reid nodded and did as I asked him. He turned towards me and pulled me into a hug.

“I am sorry, Riley. If I had known about any of this, I wouldn’t have- I should have told you about the cheating, too, as soon as I knew.”

“I know,” I said as I pulled away from him and handed the phone to Reid. “Do you remember any of these names?”

“Wha-“

“I think your brother sold our pack members for experiments. The vampire, Ramsay, the one Roman and Adrian investigating on… your brother is associated with them,” I mind-linked Reid and he growled again.

“I- I do remember.”

“Carlisle- he is Eddie’s uncle.”

“Eddie’s?” Eddie was eight and he was one of the pups Hiran threatened.

“And this… Mark- Mark was a Delta,” Reid’s face twisted as he turned around to Hiran. “How could you even think about doing this, Hiran? This is-” Reid looked truly heartbroken as he looked at his brother. “You are worst than I thought. I should have fought you for the Alpha position. I thought you would learn to be a good Alpha… It was all my fault.”

“It wasn’t your fault, Reid,” Dee said as she walked in. “Everyone’s up, and Miller is letting them and the kids know what happened. They looked scared and agitated. It is going to be hard and they need both of you. And Reid, no, you are not responsible for his actions. Stop beating up yourself for it.”

Reid looked at her with grateful eyes as she took a step towards him and kissed him on his chin.

“A human? You are not suitable to be an Alpha,” Hiran said with a mocking look.

“Anyone else?” I looked at Reid and his body went rigid as he read further.

“Ethan-“

“Ethan?”

“Ethan Browning.”

My eyes widened as I took a step back. Dee grabbed my shoulder as she looked at Reid.

“Browning?”

“That is- is that Mirabel’s father?” I blinked as I looked at Hiran. “You- you are the reason Mirabel didn’t have a father and a mother?” A tear rolled down my cheek. My heart broke for Mirabel and Eddie and everyone who lost their loved ones because Hiran was just a greedy a*s.hole.

He made them orphans and then he threatened their safety, as well. Gem roared inside me and I wanted to rip him apart, until he was nothing but bones and tattered flesh. My body quivered. “You are- you are a monster. There is a special kind of hell for people like you, and you will burn and then come back to life and then burn again.”

“Riley, we should call Roman or Adrian,” Dee said and I nodded as I swiped the tears away.

“I will make you pay for all of this.”

I grabbed my phone and walked out of the room, my body still shaking. I called Roman’s number.

“You should come back.”

“Riley? Are you okay? What- did he do something to you? Oh, f**k, I shouldn’t have left.”

“I am fine. Just come. We need to take him in front of the Alpha King council. He- he supplied Ramsay with wolves to do experiments on, and some of them- oh, Rome… one of them was Mirabel’s father.”

Roman roared and then I heard him telling someone to turn the flight around. I heard Ashelene’s voice asking him what happened and Adrian’s worried voice, too.

“There is so much to tell you. Just come back.”

***

-Dean-

My body felt heavy. My skin were burning. I was in and out of consciousness, but whenever I came to consciousness, I felt only one thing… the intense, searing heat.

My Lycan… he wasn’t there. It was quiet in my head, except the constant beepings around me.

A voice spoke.

I tried to move myself, but I didn’t know why I couldn’t even move. What the hell were they really doing?

“Have you injected the drug and the vampire b***d into him?” It was Ramsay. I recognized his voice immediately. How the hell did he find out about me? I was very, very cautious.

“No, we are still preparing him. We don’t want another failure. We only ever had one success, but I have a good feeling about this one,” the second voice said. I hadn’t heard this voice before.

“If we succeed… imagine how much we can earn from this.”

The second voice sounded excited. “Yes, and that is why this Lycan is our chance to better our experiment. Forget the dead wolves. We will remember only the living ones.”

“Yes, and if you give me this, we will go to places. You know how many humans in higher places are already lining up for this… to live for centuries… humans have always been greedy and we have to feed off of that. Even though they are the weaker creatures, they still somehow control the world, too.”

“Yeah, changing the humans directly into a vampire doesn’t work… they don’t have the strength to withstand the vampire bites. It could have been easier, though.”

My eyes narrowed. Experiments. Changing. Bites. Were they trying to create vampires? According to the treaty the supernatural creatures signed, one should not turn a human into anything. No one was allowed to create vampires.

“Yes, but they just turn into a rabid vampire with bloodlust that can’t be satiated,” Ramsay said, his voice a long, frustrated sigh. “You know the ones who are funding us, these are big, big men, with power to sway a million people, the economy, and they don’t want the messy way. They didn’t want to turn into a bunch of bloodthirsty fledgelings that must be trained, then, for a long time, not at all. They want something that allows them to stay human, and still… live longer. This will be a groundbreaking invention, doctor. This will change the future. And anyone who stands before me and this achievement will die. Including Roman Night.”

“You are going to kill-“

I gritted my teeth. No one was going to hurt Roman. I would make sure of that. I had to get the hell out of this place. Even though my head was spinning and my ears were ringing, I knew I could find a way to seek my wolf.

“No, no, not yet. He will be even better incubator, wouldn’t he, for our b***d?”

“Yes, if this Lycan woks, Prince Night would work so much better. But it won’t be easy to catch him.”

“Oh, don’t worry about that, doctor. Okay, I have wasted all your time, go and start what you are going to do.”

I heard shoe steps coming towards me. The doctor, as Ramsay called him, was a tall man, with angular face and gray hair. He was human, too.

“You are awake. Good. You are responding to this more than I hoped you would. The Lycans are the perfect vessels, it seems. It makes sense too. You are stronger, primal and you have immense power.”

The doctor put on his gloves as I growled at him and moved. The shackles dug into my skin. I knew there was no use, but I wanted to get out of it and kill him. My body g*****d in pain. Every bone and muscle hurts.

In the outside world, this fuc.ker would be no match for me, but now… I was the one in chains, and he was looking at me like I was the weaker species. As.shole.

“Now, let’s start the experiment.” He grabbed a plastic IV bag filled with what looked like b***d. Thick and lumpy and brownish, with a slight green tint. Vampire b***d. A poison to wolves. It wouldn’t kill us, but it would hurt our wolves, and quieten them.

Even a little bit would hurt. But this… this would completely bury the wolf, and I would be alive, but… I had a feeling there would be no use being alive after this.

“Let’s begin the first phase, Dean, and hope you don’t change into… those accidental monsters.”

“Monsters?” I whispered. Even thought I was scared and angry, I wanted to know. I remember the photographs Roman showed me…and how he told me they would have been Ramsay’s mistakes.

Roman was right.

“Yes, a few of the wolves we used as a vessel… they turned into these weird creatures. We have killed them all.”

“You are lying. You haven’t killed them all. A few escaped, didn’t they.”

The doctor took a deep breath and he looked frustrated.

“I know things, too. I have been working for a while.”

“We will find them soon enough. Now, let’s do this.”

He connected the IV needle to my vein and started the bag. When the first drop of b***d entered my syster, a shrilly, agonized scream left my lips, shaking the whole place.

“NO.”

“The pain will stop soon. You heard Ramsay. We are making history. We are going to be the best part of the future.”

“I WILL f*****g MURDER YOU.” I roared as my body burned from the effect of the b***d. “I WILL.”

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