Betrayed Luna's Second Chance Alphas
Betrayed Luna’s Second Chance Alphas – Chapter 67

-Riley-

Even though I was pretty sure that I wanted nothing but to h*rt my mom, a part of me felt nervous. A small part. I felt like it was coming from Rene.

She was still… almost a kid in many ways, and whenever she thought about my mother, I felt a pang of longing that was from her. No anger. Just the longing.

She had been telling me things about how life was when we were in the cage made of glasses, and it made me angrier, but somehow she was still transfixed on chocolates. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Gem sighed as she looked at me with wide green eyes. “Do you know how you are going to shift now that you have two animals inside? How does that work?”

“I am assuming that it works the same way whenever I want to shift into you. My thoughts shape you into existence and I think it works the same way now, too. If I want to shift into Rene, I think I will…” It was all trial and error anyway. There was no real guidebook for this.

“You are deep in thought,” Adrian said as he caressed the side of my arm, and a wave of calmness washed over me. His touch made me feel like everything was going to be alright. Roman turned to look at me and smiled.

“Look at the damn road,” Adrian grumbled as he pulled me closer to his body and wrapped an arm around me. Roman g*****d, but did as he was asked.

“It is okay. You can hug her later, Roman. Now, concentrate on the road. We are already driving towards a death sentence as it is,” Finn said with a shake of his head, trying to ease the tension that lingered.

Bella drove the second car, with Reid and Ash and Dustin. I turned to see they were following us. After a few turns and bends, we were finally outside the city, where the laboratory was.

My senses became alert as I felt images passing through my head. Flashes of memories from Rene. She was curled into a small ball. She felt nervous.

“It is alright, Rene,” I said, feeling it was immensely inadequate, but I had nothing else to offer to her. She looked confused, and her thoughts were running a million miles per second. It felt like how she was when she first came out after being dormant for so long. “I know it is hard for you, but just trust me. You have to trust me,” I stressed the point.

Rene nodded as her yellow eyes, quite blurry, met mine.

“I am not quite sure about this bit.ch,” Gem said with a roll of her eyes. She was totally considerate when it came to Rene, but I could feel her mistrust now, and it was like a tug-o-war I just couldn’t win.

“We are here,” Adrian said, and I looked around. The place was totally inconspicuous. There was no trace that this wasn’t a high-tech facility. It looked like a junk yard. The walls had vulgar graffiti, and there were tall trash cans filled to the brim. It was all done perfectly to distract anyone who came close enough.

I pushed the door open and looked around. I didn’t remember the place. But I remembered the sound. It was a faint humming sound, and you would only hear it if you listened closer, and somehow, I knew how to listen to that sound. It vibrated along my skin and my skin hurt. I knew it was from some year-old fear, but it still felt physical, and the pain manifested along with the memories randomly pinging inside my head.

“Please… I don’t want to do this, mother,” Little Emorilee said.

“It is only a tiny little skin sample, darling. Come on, Riley, you are my brave girl. Mommy will give you a full KitKat if you stay still.”

The blade was sharp. It was only a small cut, but the girl felt the pain of it everywhere. A scream filled my ears. Mine. Hers. The little girl cried and then fell asleep, tears staining her skin. And the next day, another little cut. No matter how much the girl begged, the sharp blade never stopped, and the needles kept coming.

“Perfect little Pantera. I love you.” Mother’s voice was unusually kind. The yellow eyes glowed. It was Rene. And I realized why Rene felt a connection to my mother. The way she looked at Rene was kinder, more affectionate than the way she looked at the girl.

This was the place.

“We are here. If you listen closer… you will hear the various machines humming in the air,” I said and shuddered as Roman pulled me into a hug. His body was strong and warm. I felt so cold, though, despite the warmth.

Some of the memories were not Rene’s. She didn’t remember them. That was why she was so fond of our mother. She didn’t remember the scalpel, or the needles. She only remembered the chocolates.

We ran towards the front, and it was once again made to look like it was an old, abandoned warehouse.

Roman kicked the door in and we walked inside. I somehow knew where exactly I had to go.

“Does this look empty to you?”

“They are trying to leave by the back door. They knew,” Finn said. “Ash just mind-linked me.” Finn shifted and ran around the building.

Roman gave me a quick look and I nodded. “Go.” He ran to the backside as I surveyed the building. The walls had voices…

I looked at Adrian. “Let’s do this?” He cupped my face and motioned me to look at him, only him.

“How do they know? It is impossible unless someone told them,” I said as my body shuddered. Adrian ran his fingers along my arm, sending calming energy.

“Nothing matters. We will save Dean and others, okay?”

Adrian looked like he was mind-linking Roman.

“Rome said Dean was in the car, so was the doctor and a few other vampires. There was no sign of Ramsay, and your moth-“

“Mother is here,” Rene said, her hackles raised. She looked alert as her yellow eyes glowed.

“She is here, Adrian,” I said as I heard a soft snarl, and then she jumped out. She was still in his human form, but her eyes were already glowing.

My body trembled. I thought I was ready for this.

But I wasn’t.

Adrian growled in warning. She smirked.

“Stay back, wolf,” she said in a voice that was strong, regal. Her hair, like fire red, glowed and then slowly turned black, the same way mine did when I first shifted into Rene.

Adrian’s eyes widened.

I didn’t know why her command worked on him. He was a fuc.king Alpha. Even Roman’s Alpha voice didn’t affect him like this.

So how could she control him?

She laughed, her voice blissful and arrogant as she looked at me. I couldn’t move. My body felt like it was made of stone. Everything in me burned. I felt like I was going up in flames.

“I have been waiting to meet you for a long time, Emorilee. Let’s go home.”

Just like that?

I felt Rene’s conflict, but she knew nothing about this woman. Even though my memories were random, none of them proved that she was a good person. No, every single memory proved she was evil, cold… vile.

Adrian finally found a way to move. He growled and barrelled towards Nadia, his eyes flaming, his anger roaring. I had never seen him like that.

“Like a hot warrior.”

This fuc.king wolf had no sense of time or place. This wasn’t the time to admire how hot Adrian looked.

She jumped and moved away as he shifted into his primordial Lycan. Clay stood taller. His brown and white fur gleamed in the sunlight. She twisted around and I saw the glint of a needle before it hit Clay in his back. I couldn’t even warn Adrian.

“No,” I hissed as Clay stumbled. It was some kind of syringe. Of course. I couldn’t even mind-link. F**k me. But she was wrong if she thought I was going down without a fight.

Adrian stumbled and fell to the cold floor with a thud as the drug slowly worked into his system. I hoped with all my heart that it was only a sedative.

“No one touches my MATE,” I growled out as I glared at her and grabbed the gun I was carrying in my waist band.

“He is your mate? This weak Lycan?” She sniggered. Her smile was pure mockery.

“What did you give him?” I hissed as I looked at him.

“Shoot her,” Reid said as he appeared behind her. “Roman asked me to come.”

“Go away…” I said to Reid. “Please. She is powerful.” My mother didn’t even care Reid was here. I knew he was nothing to her.

“Come on now, Riley. I don’t want to fight with you.”

“You are evil,” Reid hissed as he shifted into his wolf, but I knew it was no use. She took Adrian out. It was only a matter of-

Her claws grew as she grabbed Liam — Reid’s wolf– by the scruff of his neck and hurled him at one of the dumpsters. “Stay, or I will kill you,” Nadia hissed, her eyes glowing.

“Let me take you home. It has been a long day…”

“Home? Where is home, Nadia? I only remember the glass cage in this place, and no one would call that home!” I hissed as I pointed the gun at her. She didn’t even blink. She stared straight at the gun as if she was sure that I wouldn’t shoot.

My fingers trembled.

Gem roared in my head. She was angry to see that Adrian was hurt.

My heart was racing. Sweat dripped down my brows, between my breasts. Everything felt so bright.

Memories flashed in and out. My body shuddered from the resonant echoes of the voices that wouldn’t leave. Despite my efforts to push the voices aside, they seemed to claw their way back into my consciousness, a relentless force that refused to be silenced.

As I wrestled with these unsettling memories, I couldn’t help but wonder… did she hold a power over me, as well, just as she did over Rene? Why couldn’t my fingers fuc.king move? Everything in me wanted to hurt her for hurting my mate, but… I-

“You won’t shoot me, darling girl.”

“I hate you,” my voice came out broken. “I hate you.”

My lips quivered. My eyes felt blurry and my chest felt tight. I couldn’t breathe properly. My lungs felt like they had shrunk.

“You don’t hate me.”

And somehow… I believed her.

And I hated myself for that.

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-Roman-

The van screeched to life, its engine roaring with a jarring sound that set my senses on edge. Tires scraped along the road as one of the vampires with the doctor started to sh*ot. Instinctively, I let out a primal roar, fueled by a surge of adrenaline and anger, as Finn and I sprinted towards the vehicle.

Amidst the cacophony of the revving engine, Ash’s voice pierced through the clamor, her words barely audible above the noise. “I see him!” she shouted, urgency lacing her voice. “Dean… he is inside that f**king van.”

She started to run along with Bella, as more cars came out from inside the building, and they came with guns blazing. And here my mom said I couldn’t use my guns their mom teach them anything?

Finn’s eyes gleamed with a fierce determination as he looked at me.

“They are not taking him anywhere,” he hissed as he jumped at the top of one of the cars hurtling towards us. I was surprised that he hadn’t fallen yet. There were so many cars, and so many vampires shooting at us. We were outnumbered, but we were on a mission.

Ash blasted the tire of the car Finn was currently standing on. The car swerved, the tires spinning around before it came to a halt. Finn punched through the metal… as if it was made of paper and his claws cut into the skin of one of the vampires.

Bella tore off the second vampire before she started to run towards the van that had gained some distance while we were distracted by the guns and the oncoming cars.

Ash followed Bella.

I saw Ash shifting into her Lycan midway, and my eyes widened when I saw the white energy pulsing around her. She still hadn’t turned twenty, but she already got her power. She roared and the place vibrated.

Bella shot at the van’s wheel, trying to stop the vehicle, but the one behind the wheel was good. I could see the doctor’s worried look as he stared at the Lycans following him. He was not leaving this place, not alive.

Dustin was fighting two vampires who came from inside the laboratory, while Finn was trying to stop the cars from reaching my sister and Bella.

I shot the wheel of another car, and jumped up on the roof. I shifted and Karl snarled and punched the roof in, before pulling the pale bloodsucker out from the driver’s side and jumping down. He slammed him down the road before kicking him into the next car that was speeding towards us.

“As.shole,” Karl snarled inside as he closed his eyes, and I felt the power surround me. It was like a powerful shield.

The car collided against me, and I kicked it with a roar that shook the building, and I looked up when I heard a second roar matching mine. Ashelene.

She glowed.

Her Lycan, Mei, suddenly looked bigger as she tore a piece of metal from the side of the van. I saw the pale face of the doctor.

“Please…” He looked scared.

I wondered how many please Riley had said to him, how many Dean had said to him…

“You don’t deserve to even say that word,” Bella growled as the van came to a halt. Bella dragged the doctor out of the car by the collar of his lab coat, hissing at his face. He looked so f.ucking frail. A pathetic creature.

Bella’s canines grew.

“Let me go. I was forced to do-“

“Lies,” Bella hissed. “Do I look like an i***t?” She looked inside the car and her face morphed into one of anger and rage.

The doctor shuddered.

“I – only I can save him,” the doctor said.

Bella’s eyes flashed. “You don’t have to save him. I will find a way to save him,” she growled and, as I watched, her claws cut into his heart and she ripped his heart clean out of his chest before she threw his body down.

I ran to the van and saw that Ash was trying to use her power to wake Dean up. He looked thin… small… barely there.

“He is not… I don’t think he is alive.”

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