Betrayed Luna's Second Chance Alphas
Betrayed Luna’s Second Chance Alphas – Chapter 48

-Riley-

The phone rang in the quietness of our room. Adrian and Roman looked at me and then at each other before Roman stood up. I pulled my blanket up, suddenly awkward, but fully, fully satiated. I had never felt so good after s*x, and this wasn’t really s*x, either.

“Yeah? You are shy now after everything you did?” Gem said with a roll of her eyes. “Why find an umberella after you are completely soaked to your fu.cking bones?”

“You talk too much, Gemmy, too much. I think you are just jealous.”

“Who is it?” Adrian asked as he rolled out of the bed, following Roman.

“Finn,” Roman said. He answered the call and he smiled. “Thank Goddess, Finn. That is great. Is she alright?”

He hung up before turning to me. “Claire is alright. She is currently being pampered by my mother, father and Finn. I am going to call Ashelene. We will leave tomorrow, early in the morning, okay?”

I nodded. I couldn’t wait to finally get Hiran out of my life. I already felt so good about this. It would be the end of my trouble or I hoped so.

“I will go and check with doctor Abel,” Adrian said as he walked out.

“Sleep tight, Kitten.”

“Roman… is this bad?” I whispered as I bit my lips.

Roman stopped and gave me a soft look.

“I thought it would be, Kitten, to share you with anyone, but…” He shrugged and didn’t say anything but his eyes spoke volume. He crossed to where I was sitting and took my hand in his. “We are going to be alright, Kitten. You are going to be alright. We will figure this all out together, okay?”

I nodded. “About what happened with Hiran, Roman… I- I felt-” I didn’t know how to exactly explain it to him. “My wolf was completely gone when that happened. I saw red, like… literally red. It wasn’t just the anger. Hiran was a red, blurry mess. Gem said she didn’t know what happened when she came back. She told me she felt like she was locked in a dark cage. When I did that to Hiran, my wolf was gone…”

I tried as much as I could to explain it to Roman. Roman nodded as he ran his finger through his hair.

“It is strange. I have seen things, but never anything like that. I don’t know what you are, Riley, but I promise we will find the answers, okay?”

I nodded as he motioned me to lie down. I did and closed my eyes.

“I can’t wait for tomorrow.”

“I can’t, too, Kitten. It is going to be so good,” he said as he looked at me for a second. “Riley…”

“Yes, Roman?” I looked at him and he hesitated. He looked like he wanted to say something more, but he didn’t.

“Nothing. Good night.”

***

(Next day)

Hiran grunted and growled, thrashing against his shackles as Roman drove through the narrow roads.

I leaned my head against Adrian’s shoulder as I looked at Hiran with a smirk.

“You have to answer for this, Riley. You are not going to succeed.”

“I think I already succeeded,” I said without taking my head off from Adrian’s shoulder. I looked up at him and he gave me a smile.

He looked content and I felt content.

We soon arrived at the front of the tiny airport where we parked and walked inside. Ashelene, Keller and Feyona were already waiting there.

“Now that he is going with you to NY, I think it is safe for me to stay here?” Keller looked at Roman and Roman nodded.

“Of course. He won’t bother you again.”

“Keller, you sh.it, how could you do this to me? How could you-“

Keller waved his hand and cut him off. “I don’t have time to talk with you. I don’t want to waste my breath talking to you,” he said to Hiran before he turned towards me. “And Riley, I know I still don’t deserve your forgiveness or your friendship, but I promise I will do whatever it takes to help you.”

“Thanks, Keller, bye. You can stay in the pack house with Reid and Dee. Everything is changing in the pack and I am sure Reid could use your help.”

“Is Reid the new Alpha?”

“Yes, he is, now that Hiran is done for,” I said and Hiran growled and bared his teeth at me.

“Reid will never be the Alpha. I will come back for what is rightfully mine. You and the pack. You both belong to me.”

“Well, you can’t come back from death,” I shrugged as Roman dragged Hiran towards the plane and pushed him inside. Adrian and I followed. “And neither the pack nor I belong to you.”

“You will be free by evening, Little Red,” Adrian said, and I smiled a little.

“I can’t wait to get rid of the mark,” I said as I scratched it with my finger. It felt ugly on my skin, like an unwanted burden.

“Soon,” Roman said as Ashelene stood up.

“I have a headache. I am going to sleep. Wake me when we reach NY,” she said before she walked away.

“You alright, Ash?” Roman asked and she nodded and gave him a smile with a shrug.

“Why wouldn’t I be? I am perfectly alright,” she said, but I had a feeling she was lying. She walked into the small cabin and I followed her.

“Ash?”

“Riley?” she said. This whole trip was weird. Ashelene had always been so fun, and she was someone who had intense energy. But she looked drained, as if someone had sucked the energy out of her. “Come in.”

“Hey, Ash, really? Are you okay?”

She looked at me for a second, and her eyes narrowed into slits. She rubbed her temples and sighed, looking frustrated.

“I am okay. Don’t worry about it.”

“You don’t look like yourself.”

“How long have you known me? A day? You know nothing about me, Riley,” she said and I blinked as I winced. I looked at her with a sigh. Of course, I hadn’t known her for a long time, but… I still knew this wasn’t the Ash who sent me a skimpy outfit to thank her brother.

“Is it me? Did I do something wrong? Did I offend you in some way?” I said as I looked at her. I didn’t know why it hurt me to see her like this, but it did.

She sighed.

“I am sorry, Riley. s**t, I shouldn’t have said that. I am sorry for being a b***h. It is just that… Everything is too much and I feel like I am standing on top of a land mine that is going to explode any moment now. I hate feeling like this,” she said as she buried her face into her palms.

“I am sorry, Ash, if I did do something wrong.”

“It is not you. It is me, and-” She sighed and shook her head. “And I am worried about Dean. It is all stressing me out.”

“I will leave you alone.”

I walked out, but I had a feeling something had shifted, and this tension I was feeling right now wasn’t imagined. It felt real.

“I have to find out what is wrong with Ashelene.”

“You are just a glutton for punishment, aren’t you? Leave her the f**k alone. You are not responsible for everyone’s trouble.”

“But she is Roman’s sister and that makes her… my sister.”

***

-Dean-

I felt like I was cloaked in mist. Everything was indistinct. Thoughts. Sounds. Feelings.

Memories came and went, days stretched. I didn’t know whether I was here for a day or years. I didn’t know anything except this searing agony that just wouldn’t stop, and the sounds of the beeps and the drip of the b***d that went into my system. Vampire b***d.

I knew that much. Pain was constant. Even though the doctor said the pain would go away, it never did.

There were hundreds of tiny pin pricks from needles along my arms and the back of my hands. Every part of my skin hurts. Death would have been easier.

I kept praying for death.

I was moved from the first place to some other location. They knocked me out before they transported me. I vaguely remember the horns, but nothing else.

Life had never been so quiet. My Lycan Wolf had completely left me. Without his voice in my head, I felt even more lost. Alone. And my hope was completely destroyed when they brought me to this secret location.

“How is he doing, doctor?”

Everyone called him doctor. He was human, and he was the one in charge of this hospital. No, it wasn’t a hospital. It was a prison laboratory and the animals locked in glass cages were guinea pigs. I was one of the guinea pigs.

The smell of antiseptic and b***d was the most potent smell in this place.

Outside the glass walls, I could see equipment, what looked like human-shaped chambers –I had no idea what they were going to do with those– vials of chemicals, a big lab set up, and refrigerators that reached the ceiling. The whole place was high-end, with cutting-edge technology and equipment.

I licked my dry, peeled lips as Ramsay, the doctor and a woman appeared in front of my glass cage. I moved against the shackle, thrashing. But of course, nothing happened.

“He is doing so much better than I had anticipated. I can almost taste our victory. The other wolves were doing good, Ramsay,” the doctor said.

The woman nodded with a chuckle. This was the first time I had seen her. I tried to see through the blurriness in my eyes. If I escaped this prison, I needed to remember the faces.

She looked older than Ramsay. I couldn’t sense whether she was a human or more, now that my Lycan had completely disappeared. I had lost all my wolf senses.

She looked like she was in her early forties. Tall. Her red hair was pulled up in a tight bun. And she looked rich. There was something about the way she stood. She looked like she was born into wealth and power.

“Miss Andreas, I am so glad you could finally come back.”

“It is Nadia, doctor. And I am glad to be back here, too, even though the last time I was here didn’t have a happy ending.” The woman’s voice turned hard. “No, it was a bad ending. Very bad.”

“We are still sorry that happened. Nobody even thought-” the doctor said, his voice filled with shame.

“I still couldn’t wrap my mind around how… how he could have escaped from something so secure. He took her with him. That shouldn’t have happened. I spilled my own sweat and b***d for that experiment and they lost it. They lost her.”

“But Nadia, we never anticipated any of that. It was unfortunate.”

“And because of that, it took us another sixteen years. Nothing came closer to the perfect specimen. We have wasted Sixteen years.”

The woman sounded angry. “She was perfect. She was everything I had ever wanted. I sacrificed a lot for that, for her,” the woman said with a growl. “It was all for nothing.”

“Yes, but we are closer to our dreams now. This time, there won’t be any mistakes. This time, no one is escaping, and we are winning. We need you here now, Nadia.”

“Yes, Ramsay. I am here. I am not going anywhere until I see the result of this. And I need to see this soon.” The woman walked away, her heels making soft clicks on the white floor.

“Nadia will lose it if we fail again,” Ramsay said with a hiss. “Failing is not an option this time)

“I know. And I won’t fail. Dean Turner is our turning point.”

“If you succeed, I will bring you better incubators, doctor.” Ramsay’s voice was sinister.

“Like Roman Night?” the doctor said with a chuckle.

“Yes. Him. I will leave you to your work, doctor,” Ramsay left after a second of staring at me and enjoying my pathetic state. The doctor waited for a few minutes, tapping at the glass walls, humming a strange song under his breath.

The woods eats the woman and dumps her honey-body in the mud

Her dress floats down the well

His voice was low, dark, creepy. I heard the door sliding open and he walked in still singing under his breath.

And it assumes the shape of the body of a Little girl

He gave me a smile as he stopped in front of me. “Hello, Dean, how are you doing today? Do you want to become more?”

I wanted to scream, growl, but my voice came out weak, frail. “You will not succeed.”

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