Betrayed Luna's Second Chance Alphas
Betrayed Luna’s Second Chance Alphas – Chapter 69

-Roman-

I could feel Nadia’s power even before the yellow light twisted around her. It was the same as mine. She was a blue b***d, too. There might not be any more Panthers left to rule over, but she was still from a long line of original Panteras.

The collision ffof our powers stunned me. It momentarily disoriented her, too, but she was more interested in talking with Rene than fighting me.

I hoped Rene wouldn’t do anything drastic. I saw Riley’s face morphing into one of pain and anger. She shook her head as a growl left her lips.

“STOP.”

“You can do it, Rene,” Nadia said in a voice that chilled me. What the f**k was she talking about?

“Riley? Kitten? What is happening?” I asked her and she shook her head.

Riley gritted her teeth as she shook her head. “It is Rene. She is trying to shift.”

My heart clenched. When the animal shifted when Riley didn’t want to shift, it would hurt Riley.

Nadia chuckled, her voice low and sinister. I didn’t know what I was supposed to do.

My best friend was on the floor, unconscious. Reid was slowly coming to his senses, but even with an army, how could I defeat her when the animal in my mate trusted her mother, and the said mother also had an antidote for whatever the heck it was in Adrian’s bloodtsream.

“This is a flaming pile of s**t,” Karl said.

“Can you find a way to connect with Rene?”

Even without the mark, Karl could connect with Rene because they were mates. It was different than the mind-link, but it worked.

“I don’t – I only feel the block, and the confusion. And pain. So much pain. Something is wrong,” Karl said.

“Of course something is wrong. Rene is trying to shift…”

“No, I mean, something is wrong with Rene. She is hurting too… I can sense her pain. I think Nadia is doing something…”

My eyes widened as I looked at Riley and saw as her hair slowly turned red and her eyes glowed yellow, and soon the black panther stood on four legs, looking up at Nadia. There was no hostility in Rene’s eyes, though. She only looked bewildered.

“Oh my little Pantera. I know you will always choose mine.”

“No,” I hissed. “Rene… look at me.”

She tilted her head up and stared. “Do not go anywhere with her. You know what she did. I know you would have sensed Riley’s fear, knew Riley’s memory.”

Rene’s eyes turned dull for a second before she looked away quickly and I saw her looking at Nadia again.

“She wishes to come with me. You can’t stop her. You don’t want her hurt, do you?” Nadia’s voice was cold. There was no emotion in this woman’s voice, no love left. Why the hell did she want my mate then? Why would she take her away? For more experiment? To use her for her own gain, once again?

“I would never let you take her away from me and Adrian. You are not going to hurt her or use her again. Not when I am here,” I growled and my body burned as my power became stronger, stronger than I had ever felt. It was fear that pushed me now. Fear and desperation.

“Oh, I am going to take her away, because if I am not, Adrian will be dead.”

Rene shook her head and let out a growl. Nadia looked down at Rene and her lips twisted. I felt so damn helpless right now. I could kill her, but if she died, Adrian would probably die, too. If she lived, Riley might get hurt.

“Here,” Nadia turned to look at me and threw a vial towards me. “I have no intention of killing him, anyway. None of you are important, now that my daughter is coming with me. Come on, Pantera, let’s go,” Nadia said. “Oh and don’t try to stop us.You really need to take care of your friend first, because the more time you take to inject the first antidote, and the second, the more he will be slipping away from the land of living.”

Second? I only had one vial. I looked at Adrian. He was whimpering, even when he was unconscious. His body was twisting and turning. My stomach twisted as the pit it became bigger. Dean and now Adrian…

I growled at her. Everything in me burned to just rip her into pieces. I would have too. Karl was clawing at me to let him too. But I couldn’t. Not yet.

She was winning. If this was a game of chess… she had my queen.

“The second antidote is inside. You can find it in the first refrigerator. There will be a big ONE plasted across it.”

“How the hell would I know which one is it in the refrigerator.”

“Oh, you will know only when you inject all of them into your friend. You should start now with the first dose before it is too late. It has more than hundred vials, and only one is the actual drug. The others are just placebos.”

“I want to kill this b***h. If she wasn’t our enemy, I would have appreciated how smart this was. We won’t let anyone die… the problem of being a good guy,” Karl said. “And she knows that.”

I walked towards Adrian and bent down. I looked at Rene and she was looking at me, too. I thrust the antidote inside him. He growled, still not waking up. Sweat dripped down his brows, and he looked bloodless.

“Ad? Ad?”

He twitched and g*****d and screamed, his voice laced with agony. His eyes blinked open and I saw they were red. I wished he had stayed unconscious, because…

He let out a loud screame as tears rolled down his cheeks.

***

-Adrian-

Pain. I had never felt so much pain in my life. Every organ inside felt like it was slowly catching fire. As darkness slowly faded away, I saw Roman’s worried eyes looking down at me, but my mind instinctively tried to sense Riley’s presence.

Something was wrong. I felt cold.

“Ri-“

“Ssh,” Roman said as he stood up and took me in his arms.”Hold on, Ad, please hold on.”

I looked around and I saw Rene walking away with Nadia. As if she could sense my eyes on her back, she turned around and gave me that yellow eyed gaze, that somehow made my heart ache more.

She looked sad.

“Rene…” My voice came out broken, despite the effort. The pain was just too staggering, but why was Roman here with me instead of Rene? What the hell was he doing? “Go,” I hissed out.

He shook his head. “If I go now, you will die.”

“Find someone else to help me, or let me die. Go save her.” I could hold on, too, if I just knew Riley was safe.

“What the f**k are you saying?” Roman growled as his eyes flashed, and he started to run inside the building, away from Rene. f**k it. No way in hell. I could already feel his pain and the conflict. He was my f*****g best friend.

“Where are the others?”

“Reid is still half unconscious. Ash and Bella took Dean. Dustin was looking for the wolves.”

“Take me there, leave me and go. Now stop dilly-dallying and run.”

He started to run, and soon he put me in front of a mini refrigerator. “Only one is the correct dose,” he said with a wince and opened the refrigerator and we both gasped.

The refrigerator was stacked with hundreds of the same bottles.

I winced. The burning was getting worse.

“Our mother-in-law is a smart b***h,” Clay said with a growl and a shake of his head. Whatever it was in my b***d, it was stopping my usual healing power to kick in.

“Wish me luck and run…” I said as I grabbed a syringe and leaned against the wall, ready for more pain. This was going to be so horrible, but… losing Riley would just kill me. Kill both of us.

Roman gave me one last look before he shifted and ran.

I injected the first dose, the second… My fingers trembled. The burn was becoming an inferno. It wouldn’t stop. I scramead as a fresh shot of pain shot through my heart. It felt like someone was hammering nails into my heart muscles.

I grabbed the third one. My hands were shaking now, and the pain was growing. I couldn’t- My eyes burned, and my heart froze when I saw b***d dotting my skin.

It didn’t look too good. I injected another dose and then another.

I don’t want to die. I blinked my eyes and tears dripped down my cheeks. I touched my tears with a wince and my finger was red. My tears were red.

I had only had a short time with my Riley. I wanted a lifetime and some. I wanted forever with her. But I knew Roman would save her from that evil, horrendous b***h. It was wrong, I knew, but that woman really was a f*****g b***h. She hurt Riley when she was just a kid and she hurt Dean… and now… I prayed with everything that he would save her.

It would hurt him to lose both of us.

And he would help Riley and Gem, too, to get over the pain of losing me.

“What the hell are you blathering about? You are not dying. We are not dying. I AM NOT DYING. I still haven’t properly kissed Gem, you fucker. I can’t die,” Clay sounded desperate. I understood how he felt. “I want to live.”

If there was no Riley, I probably wouldn’t have minded dying. It happens. You can’t live forever. But now that I had Riley, I was becoming greedy.

Another. Another.

My eyes were starting to feel like someone was poking an iron rod inside.

I just wanted to lie down on the cold floor and die right now. There was still so many vials. I couldn’t count. I couldn’t… too much.

“Ad, Ad? Wake up. Come on? What is happening here?”

“Ash?”

“Tell me what I should do.”

“Tell Riley I loved her…”

“No, i***t, you aren’t going anywhere. You can tell her you love her by yourself. Just tell me… what I should do?”

“Inject all of this in me, and pray that one of it is real,” I slurred out and I heard Ash taking a sharp intake of breath. “I am sorry, Ash.”

“Sorry? You have nothing to apologize for,” her voice was a faint and distant echo.

I was fading soon. I still felt the sting of the needles though. I knew how hard it would have been for Riley when she was only a little girl.

“Dean?” I m****d out.

“Doctor Tim is taking care of him. He is alive, but…”

“Rome? Riley?”

“He was the one who asked me to come here and find you. He asked me to tell you that he will find Riley and bring her home. Dustin left with three more wolves. The rest are-“

Dead.

“How many?”

“Thirteen,” she said and growled.

Darkness took me once again.

***

-Riley-

“I think it is time,” I said to Rene and she looked around once more. Nadia looked down at the Panther and smiled smugly.

b***h.

Rene winced when I thought that.

Now that she was far away, she couldn’t hurt Adrian again. I hoped Rome had somehow found a way to save him — I knew he was still alive, because I could feel the bond thrumming between us. It was a siren song, and there was no pain. When a mate died, the pain that would come with it would be staggering. I could feel Roman, too. He was coming for us.

No f*****g b***h could take me away from my mates. No. Even if the b***h was my mother and royal. No power was strong enough to cut me off from Rome and Ad. No, they were mine, and I would fight until I couldn’t to stay with them.

“Rome is here. I hope Adrian is okay,” Gem said, her eyes tinged with worry. “If you haven’t done what you have, Rene… he wouldn’t have been…”

“You asked me to trust you, and I do. I do trust the both of you… you are a part of me, and so is Adrian and Roman. I am glad you trusted me, too. When she used her power… it hurt me and I felt like… I would explode if I didn’t shift. My mind was only filled with the pain, and I couldn’t even understand what was going on. And I couldn’t stop the shift, but I knew what I have to do… I am sorry for hurting you, Riley.”

“It is okay, and you saved Adrian. Thank you, Rene,” Gem whispered, her eyes wet.

“Of course. I don’t know them like you do, but I feel your emotions. Adrian and Roman are truly amazing, and I know we can’t live without them.”

“You are becoming smarter, Rene,” I said. “NOW teach her why she shouldn’t mess with us, or our mates.”

Rene roared. Nadia blinked down at the Panther, confused.

Rene’s eyes glowed, and I felt her strength.

“Damn, she is strong. I feel her power,” Gem said as Rene took a step back and pounced at Nadia.

This time, the b***h was really going down. I didn’t care if she was my mother or whatever. Not anymore.