Betrayed Luna's Second Chance Alphas
Betrayed Luna’s Second Chance Alphas – Chapter 71

-Riley-

I recognized him instantly. A few gray hair, but he was the same. Father dearest. What was he doing here and why was he going to save mommy dearest?

“f**k. Your family is problematic.”

“I know.”

“Why do you want to save her?” I hissed and he shook his head as he threw a shirt to me.

Really?

I put it on as my mates stood in front of a bleeding Nadia, essentiallty stopping my dad from getting to her.

“After everything she did, you want to help her?”

“No, I don’t want to help her. I want to help you,” he said as he looked at me with a sigh. What the hell did he mean?

I had thought of meeting him, and I had imagined it would be like one of those amazing reunion scenes you would see in movies. Tears, laughter, hesitation, yes, but also happiness. Now, I was snarling at him, covered in his mate’s b***d and he was spouting some nonsense.

“How are you helping me by keeping her alive? She would keep coming for me, and I couldn’t-” I stopped when I saw Dee walking in with Reid. Reid looked tired, and Dee looked fierce as she walked next to me. She kicked Nadia on her side and Nadia winced. She was slowly healing though, and the oozing b***d had stopped now.

“That is for hurting my best friend,” Dee said with a growl and kicked her on her leg again. “That is for hurting my man. Now, you, I assume you are my best friend’s father. Why the hell would we want to keep this b***h alive?”

My father looked at Dee, his eyes assessing. “You are a human.”

“I am, and I am not scared of wolves, or Lycans. Go on, now Dad wolf.”

My dad looked befuddled, but he cleared his throat and looked at Dee. “Because she is a scientist, and she knows about the creature inside Riley more than anyone. The doctor is dead, and she is the only one who can help me help Riley. Are you satisfied with the answer, human?”

“Hmm, you do make sense,” Dee said with a huff.

“She won’t help you or me. She is evil and she is still trying to use me to advance her reasearch,” I said with a frown.

“Who said we are giving her a choice? She has no other option. She WILL help us, Riley, and she will help if she doesn’t want to go through pain. I have spent years, alone, and I have made some drugs that will break even the most powerful royal Panther.” My father looked ruthless as he motioned to my mates who were still standing there. “Move.”

Karl growled while Adrian shook his head.

“Don’t be stubborn. I know you want to help Riley, and that friend of yours… and she can help,” my dad said. “And, wolf, do not snarl at me. I am my daughter’s father, and that makes me your father.”

Karl shuddered and then slowly, but hesitantly moved. I chuckled a little. He looked a little pissed off, but he had no other choice.

“Do I have to tell you separately?”

Adrian grunted as he gave me a sullen look.

“Get her up, and give her something to wear,” my dad said as he motioned us to get inside the car. Dee grabbed a dress from the backpack she had and threw it at Nadia. The two Lycans stood ready to catch her if she ran.

She didn’t run. She wore her dress and got inside the van.

“You will regret this, Marcus,” she said in a cold voice as he pushed her inside. “You will regret not killing me here.”

“Oh, don’t worry. We are killing you after I get what I want,” Marcus said as he motioned me. “Your mates can come too. The human friend, too.”

“Where are we going?” I blinked as I looked at Adrian and Roman. He had already shifted back, and was wearing trousers that was a size too small, but he was still so f*****g handsome.

“To Red Watchers’ building. That where the creatures are, right?”

“How do you know all of this?” Adrian asked. “You were hiding.”

“I was hiding, but I had my ways,” he said as he started the car. “I had to stay away, because I didn’t want them to find you through me before you were ready, before we were ready. But now you have loyal, strong people by your side.”

“You still took your sweet time to come find me,” I said and my voice sounded kind of accusatory and childish. I met Dee’s eyes and she mouthed savage.

“Yes. You should have come.”

“I have to wait for the right time.”

“And this is the right time?” Roman said with a frown. I was sure my mates didn’t trust him. I had a feeling that he wasn’t telling us everything.

“We will keep an eye on him,” Gem said. “We do need his help.”

Rene was quiet.

“You alright, Rene?”

“Yes,” she whispered. “The last time I met him, we were running away from mother, away from the lab. He told me I had to do this to help you and then… he… just…”

He buried her in my mind.

“That is to protect Riley too, Rene. The moment you shifted, Nadia could sense you and she came for you. But now Riley was stronger, and she could defend herself. She couldn’t have done that when she was a little girl.”

“I know, and I understand, but…”

“It is still hard,” I said with a nod.

The rest of the ride was filled with tensed silence. Nadia kept glaring at Marcus, and he ignore her look. I looked at Roman and he was looking at me, his eyes worried. And so was Adrian.

I shook my head and they both shared a look with each other. I was sure they were mind-linking. We finally reached the Red Watchers’ building and walked in. My father took a few minutes to grab something from his car before he walked in.

Dustin was waiting with a few other Red Watchers.

“Get her in to the dungeon,” Roman said. “And make sure to lock her in the special cell. She is a royal Panther, so she has some power.”

Dustin nodded as three men grabbed Nadia. She growled and roared. “Do silve hurt the panthers?” One of them asked.

Marcus shook his head. “No. It won’t. But foxglove and aconitum works just as good as they work on wolves,” my father said as he pulled out a syringe from the big box he was carrying. He pulled out a vial with light violet liquid. After the syringe was full, he stuck the needle into her neck. She g*****d. “There. The cat will stay docile for a while.”

“I will hurt you for this, Marcus,” she kept shouting it as they dragged her away.

Roman looked at me, wide eyed. “Damn.”

“Yes, damn.”

***

After my father settled in with doctor Tim and the other doctors, talking about the creatures, Reid looked at the two creatures in the cage.

“That is Mirabel’s father and Hiran’s mate, right?”

We all winced as I nodded.

They growling creatures stopped when they heard the names. I still couldn’t believe that they were once like us, and that I had something like that inside me, as well.

“You two should go back to Nightshade, and take some rest. It is going to be your marking ceremony in a few hours and you two need rest,” I said to Dee as she yawned and leaned against Reid. Reid nodded.

“Yes, she is right. You look like you are going to faint. I can’t have my mate fainting during the ceremony.”

I didn’t miss how he called her mate. Not wife, or partner. Mate. As far as Reid was concerned, Dee was his mate. It made me immensely happy that two of my friends found this with each other. They were amazing people and they deserved this.

“Yes, I am tired. Keller has been overseeing everything with the Queen,” Dee whispered. “I just can’t thank her enough. She is amazing.”

“I know. She is incredible.”

“Okay, come back soon, Riley. You know you are my maid of honor,” Dee whispered and sighed. “I know Bella won’t be coming.”

“Yes,” I said. I felt bad just thinking about Dean. Even though I never knew him, I somehow knew him, too. He went through what I did, too, and that made me somehow connected to him.

As Dee and Reid walked away, I turned to doctor Tim. “Where is Dean, doctor Tim? My father could help him in some way?” I said and doctor Tim nodded. “He is in the other room.”

We walked to the spacious room where Dean was. Bella was sitting there on the chair. Ash stood next to her, with Finn. She jumped up and ran to Adrian when she saw him. He pulled her into a hug and held her close. My heart felt weird to see her like that. I had only known her for a few days, and she had only ever been distant with me, but… she still didn’t deserve this.

“Will he wake up, Ad?”

“I promised we will find him. We did. And we will find a way to help him.”

“I am so scared, Adrian,” she whispered as she clung to him.

“I know, baby, I know, but it is going to be alright. The one with doctor Tim, he is Riley’s father and he is a scientist. He might be able to help Dean. He went through the same experiment as Dean…”

“So… does he have the creature- you know like the ones in the lab?”

My father looked at her and shook his head. “No. The creatures were the failed experiment. Riley was something we never expected. The real experiment had always been about one thing – to use wolves as an incubator to carry vampire b***d and the drugs that bind the vampire gene with the wolf gene. And then use the b***d to help humans live longer.”

“HUMANS? f*****g humans?” Bella hissed as she punched the walls. “All of this was to make humans immortal?”

“Not immortal. That can’t be done. But live a few hundred years more than they normally would, yes,” my father said. “It is science and research.”

“And who did that to you?”

“I did that. Me and my mate. We were quite ambitious. I was just as bad as her. Or even more so. But then Riley came, and she first changed when she was just three and I realized how wrong I was to use other wolves to- to do this. But I couldn’t get away. We were in too deep.”

“Who is the head of that project? The one who funded it? Ramsay?” Roman asked with a growl and my father shook his head.

My father shook his head “Not Ramsay. He was like us. Greedy and ambitious.”

“So who did?”

“Nobody knows. Only the doctor knows who it was who first kickstarted the project, but he never shared it with us. We always had money right on time. We got whatever we wanted and now that we think about it, we were simply cogs in a bigger machine.”

“You don’t know who it was?” I asked with a frown. “What about Nadia?”

“She might have known in the past years when I wasn’t there. But back then, nobody else knew other than the doctor.”

“And he is f*****g dead,” Bella said. “I killed him. I shouldn’t have- but, but can you save Dean.”

“Yes, I think can. He is still alive, but the pain of the drug and vampire bood had made his body to shut down. It will take a few hours to days, but I will try.”

Bella looked up at my father, her eyes blurred. “Thank you so much.”

“Of course. I will do whatever I can.”

After a while, we walked out. My father said he would stay right here, and doctor Tim was more than happy to accommodate to his every need.

I walked out with Adrian and Roman. It was a long f*****g day, and I just wanted to sleep.

“You want to go home, Red?” Adrian said as Roman pulled me towards him.

I sighed. “Where is home?”

“Wherever you are, that is my home,” Adrian said and Roman poked his tongue out, and shook his head.

“Who is writing this poetry?”

“My a*s,” Adrian said as he pulled me away from Roman and roman grumbled in displeasure. “What? I almost died today. I needed to get better.”

“No way in hell you are using it to steal her away.”

I chuckled. “Don’t pout, Roman. You can both stay with me in my room, and maybe…” I winked and Roman gasped.

“What are you saying, you dirty, evil Kitten?”

“I am saying that maybe the Kitten wants to purr so bad…”

“Did you just say that?” Gem said with a huff and a roll of her eyes. “You are an idiot.” Rene just laughed.

Roman gasped as he pulled me by my waist and bit me softly on my cheek.

Adrian laughed and shook his head.

“Damn Red, you never fails to suprirse me, but yes. I will make your p*ssy purr.”

“The f*ck?” Gem said with a snort. “Goddess…”

I m****d softly as Adrian ran his hand down my breasts.

“Let’s get the hell out of here. I want to use your body in everyway,” Roman mumbled.

“And I will worship you like you have never been worshipped before.”

“Yes. I think I want that, I need that.”

***

-Feyona-

“Where are we going?” I wondered if I had once again made a stupid decision to trust him. I was kind of blinded by the knowledge that he did what he did for me, but now the unsurety was pinging inside, again.

“Somewhere no one will find us. We will lay down for a while and come back once all of this settle.”

“Do you think you can come back, after all this?” I asked Ramsay and he shrugged.

“They all will die sometime, and forget me.”

“Oh yes. You are immortal, but I- do I want to live in the shadows, Ramsay?” I whispered and his eyes became wide.

“I am sorry I didn’t ask. If you don’t want to come with me-“

Who the hell was he?

He had always been good to me, but he was also a bad man. Maybe I was selfish. Maybe I didn’t care. I always only thought we were convinient, but I never thought he loved me. But now I believed he did love me.

This time, I was not going to destory it like I did the first time. Roman had moved on. I had thrown Roman’s love away, but I wouldn’t do it the second time.

I had never properly learned to love. Growing up in a broken home would do that to you.

But maybe with Ramsay, I would learn to love. Maybe. I wanted to know.

“I want to come with you.”

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