Betrayed Luna's Second Chance Alphas
Betrayed Luna’s Second Chance Alphas – Chapter 75

-Riley-

“F**K.” A loud, chilling growl left my mate’s lips as he punched against the wall.

Roman’s smile was completely gone and his face twisted into one of rage. If he was someone other than Roman, the look in his eyes alone would have scared me, but this was MY Roman, and I knew he would never do anything to hurt me, or anyone innocent. He hissed something into the phone before he hung up.

“What? What did Finn say?” Adrian asked with a grunt.

“Hiran… escaped.”

I stumbled back. It felt like someone had hit me in the chest.

“How the hell did he escape? Nightshade is a fort,” Adrian said with a frown.

“Looks like we need to strengthen that f*****g fort. We were all distracted, and we forgot Hiran.”

“Who the hell even wanted to save him? What is the use? He was a sleazy a*****e,” I grumbled with a frown. After seeing what our pack members, some of us who were the parents of my pups, the ones he threatened, I realized he was worse than the worst. He was a bottom feeder. A s**t eating worm. There was nothing redeeming about him.

“I told them…” Roman growled as we walked out. Adrian quickly locked the shop. “I told them that we didn’t need his f*****g testimony or whatever. I am so sorry, Riley,” he said with a growl as he took me in his arms, as if he was trying to protect me from the world of harm.

“Hiran can’t hurt me anymore, Roman. Don’t worry. If he even looks in my direction, I know you both will smite him.” I said with a chuckle, but I did feel a bit of a nervous twitch. It felt like that this was coming to an end, whatever this was.

My spidey senses were tingling.

Gem laughed and shook her head. “This isn’t a joke, Riley. He is… when he comes at you, he won’t hesitate to kill you this time.”

“I am aware,” I said with a nod.

Roman’s arms around me tightened further.

“You are suffoating her,” Adrian said and Roman let me go with a guilty smile.

“I am sorry, Riley. I don’t know what to do.”

“You don’t have to do all of this alone, you know that, right? It is not your fault. It is not the King’s fault. He did what he had to do.”

“I feel… like it is my father’s fault,” Roman said with a frown.”Let’s go back to Nightshade,” he said as we all piled up inside Adrian’s car, Onyx.

When we reached Nightshade, the whole place was guarded by warrior wolves and police, alike. Finn ran to us as soon as he saw us.

“Goddamn, Finn, how did this happen? How the hell did he escape from this place?”

“Some kind of smoke bomb, filled with aconitum and something else. No one would have stood a chance,” Finn said with a dark grunt. “Someone from the outside wanted Hiran, and they got him.”

“I think it is the human. The one Riley’s father told us about,” Roman said with a grunt as he looked around. “Did you get a scent? Did you track it?”

“Vampires. I tracked their scent behind Nightshade, but they must have used something else to hide the scent,” Finn said. “I couldn’t track them beyond the woods.”

“First we need to f*****g find who the mole in the Red Watcher is.”

“Dustin and Bella were already working on it.”

“And don’t let anyone else know. It should stay between us.”

“Do you really trust Dusting?” I asked.

“Dustin is one of us. He won’t ever betray us,” Adrian said with a sigh. “It is someone else. But we are going to find them, and we are going to f.ucking end them.”

“The cops helped, too. We can’t find anything,” the King said as he reached us. Roman grunted, and didn’t say anything. I twitched nervously as Finn let out a loud breath. “I am sorry, Rome. I know you are angry with me.”

“I am,” Roman said. “I told you, Dad. I told you that this might happen. Now he is out in the wild and he will come for Riley. I know that much.”

Adrian put a hand on Roman’s shoulder. “Rome, stop.”

He shook him off with a grunt. “Do you not agree?”

“I do, but it is not your dad’s fault. His hands were tied. He has to do this according to the procedure, or everything will become chaos. Nobody wants that now, do we?”

Roman shook his head. “I am sorry, Dad. I know… I know it is not your fault. I am just- so frustrated and so, so angry.”

“Roman, come on. We are stronger than we were before and we will get through this,” I said as I grabbed his hand in mine.

“She is right, Rome.”

“I don’t know. I just hate thinking that the fu.cker is not rotting inside the prison. He belongs there. Or he should have been dead.”

I leaned against Rome, knowing I would calm him down.

“We need to go back…” Finn said. “I am worried.”

“About?” Adrian asked.

“Dean. If this is all coming to an end… and there is a mole in the Red Watchers, and Dean is right there.”

Roman nodded with a thoughtful frown. “No.”

“What do you mean no?”

“He will be alright for now. Just do what we are doing here.”

***

-Hiran-

“Thank you, Ramsay.” I said as the car stopped in an abandoned building way outside the city. I looked around, and grunted. It was no five-star hotel, but even this was better than the jail I was locked up in.

“Why the hell does he want to save you? You are a sly as.shole and you are nothing.” Ramsay’s face twisted in derision. I didn’t care about it. Of course, I didn’t like the way he talked about me, but heck, he just saved me. So he could say whatever he wanted, for now.

“I don’t even know who he is, but I know why he wants to save me. We both want Riley, and he knows I will get her, no matter what. That b***h is going to die one way or the other for everything she has done to me.”

“My job is done here.”

“No, it isn’t, not until I say so,” a commanding voice said. I looked up to see a tall man walking in, with a mop of gray hair. He looked so ordinary, but I knew. This was him. The one who was orchestrating all of it. A woman followed him. I knew her. I saw her at my trial. One of the heads of the Red Watchers.

“Ivanna Thompson, but why?” I whispered to myself as I looked at the tall woman. She looked as serious as she had looked during my trial, but now she was following the man like he was her master.

“It is always greed,” Jin said with a scoff. “But I don’t fuc.king care why. I am out of that cage and now I am going to hunt Riley down. That b***h doesn’t deserve to live with two men who aren’t us.”

“How the f**k did she get two men?” I still couldn’t believe it.

“You are the one who called me that day,” Ramsay said as he looked at Ivanna.

“Yes. They left even when I explicitly ordered them to stay. So I could only warn you at the last minute. I am sorry you lost Dean, sir,” she said as she looked at the man.

He gave her a curt nod, and his mouth twisted. He was human, but something about him was not human.

“Doctor Kaspar is dead. Dean is gone. Nadia is imprisoned. Marcus is helping the wrong side,” the man said. His voice was kind of gravelly when he talked. “The only way I am getting what I want is from Riley. She already has everything I want inside her.”

“And you will have her,” I said to him. “But who are you? Why are you doing this? Is this all for… just living longer?”

“You don’t need to know.” He cut me off. “Now, your first job is to trail Riley and grab her when she is alone, or vulnerable. As soon as you grab her, inject this into her bloodstream.”

“The f*****g drugs don’t work on her. Ramsay gave me one to make her listen to me, and instead she became something else and almost killed me,” I said with a shudder. I still remembered that day. How she punched me over and over until all I could see was b***d and all I could hear was my own scream. Sometimes, when I closed my eyes, I saw Riley’s glowing eyes.

“Yeah, this isn’t like that. Ramsay didn’t know what she was. This drug will subdue all the things inside her, including the creature.”

I sighed. “I hope you are right. I am not ready to die again in that b***h’s hand.”

“I really need to go,” Ramsay said. “My mate is-“

I scoffed. It irritated me that he still called that wolf MATE. She was a fu.cking wolf, and he wasn’t her mate.

“Your mate is safe. Don’t worry about her for now. They are already hunting you, and you know I can keep you safe.”

Ramsay sighed. “She doesn’t want me to-“

“She doesn’t have to know, Ramsay. You know you love the thrill of this. She is still a wolf, and she still can’t live longer. So we can both benefit from it.”

Ramsay’s eyes flashed. The man was convincing, and I knew Ramsay was back in this again.

Ramsay nodded. “Yes. But will you promise to help me keep Feyona safe? And nothing should happen to her.”

“I know. I already appointed two men to her protection detail and she is safe. She will be safe. So are you in?”

Ivanna smiled at Ramsay.

“Come on.”

Ramsay nodded. “I am in.”

The man turned to look at me. “Now, don’t mess this up, and bring me the specimen.”

“Where are we staying? They know all our old places.”

“I have a place. No one will suspect that one.”

“Where?”

“It was the one where the Red Watchers started. It is now abandoned, since we moved to a new building. It is a perfect place. No one will suspect us.”

“Then that is where we will go. Hiran, take that car,” he pointed to a tinted car, that looked really discrete. “Do not get caught.”

“Not this time.”

“And Ivanna, you know what you should do…” The man looked at Ivanna Thompson. She took in a deep breath and shook her head.

“But the wing is heavily guarded and Bella… doesn’t leave his side.”

“Bella should have been in that lab with Dean. The doctor messed up,” the man said. I had no idea who this Bella was, but she must be something important.

“But…sir…”

“I don’t need excuses, Ivanna. You know what happens if he wakes up. He knows you are a part of all of this.”

Ivanna looked worried as she gave him a look. “I know.”

“So, either get him back. And if that is hard, finish him off. If Bella is there, end her, too. We don’t need too many Lycans poking their noses in our business. And the creatures, kill them off too.”

“I can’t do it all alone. If I get caught…”

“Don’t get caught then, Ivanna. If you get caught, I will kill you myself. And him… Take him with you,” the man said as he pointed to me.

“But I have a b***h to deal with.”

“My first priority – Dean. He should not wake up.”

***

-Ivanna-

The darkness was bleeding into the room. There was no light. I preferred it that way. It was a hunt, and I needed the safety of the dark. The girl wasn’t there. It would have been a bigger mess if Bella had been there.

“I am sorry, Dean.” He was a good soldier, but he was always fighting for the wrong side of the army. I knew who would win this war. THE HUMAN! He had always won, and I knew how to pick sides.

The prey was within my reach. This time, there would be no stopping me. I would take his life.

It is him or me, and I would choose me. All the time. I couldn’t die, just so that he could live. I have so many more years to live and grow and thrive.

The soft beeps of machines filled the room. The roars of the creatures disrupted the rhythm of the wind. Everything was as I wanted it to be.

The needle glinted in the night. I preferred it this way. Clean, clinical, without a single drop of b***d. I assumed that my brain had developed over time. Once upon a time, I would have chosen bloody, messy.

The needle was filled with a concentrated dose of aconitum and Belladonna. Just that one would have been enough, but… he was always a perfectionist. Maybe that was how he was alive for years. The second syringe was filled with Arsenic. He wouldn’t wake up even if the Moon Goddess wanted to bring him back.

I plunged the injection into him. His skin sucked in the needle with a soft, supple sound. His body trembled once.

I took it out and then inserted the arsenic injection.

The faint beep from the heart monitor stopped. It was a flat line now.

“Goodbye, Dean…”