Betrayed Luna's Second Chance Alphas
Betrayed Luna’s Second Chance Alphas – Chapter 76

-Roman-

“Follow Ivanna,” I mind-linked Finn, as I stared at Ivanna Thompson. The trap worked perfectly. The darkness was the cover we needed.

“Don’t you want to catch her now?’ Adrian mind-linked me.

“No. Following her might bring us the one she is working with.”

“So we should just stay here and watch?” Adrian grumbled. I could see he was frustrated, but he knew we had to do this. This time, I wasn’t going to rush this. She had walked willingly into my trap, and while every nerve in my body wanted to rip her heart out, I knew I couldn’t do that. NOT YET.

She was only a part of the machine. The power that operated the machine as a whole was someone else. Someone who had been hiding in the shadows for so long, taking the cover of the darkness. If he didn’t come out now, he wouldn’t come out ever.

“Yes. For now. Just watch,” I said. The moment I realized Hiran was out, I knew something like this might happen. If this was a chess piece, they had already saved their pawns, and now they would want to take out anything that might bring the king, or at least, the Queen down.

Ivanna was the Queen.

And she was down now. We needed the king.

Now, we had to play this perfectly, or they would be the one shouting check mate.

She walked out of the room, staring once more at the machine. The door closed softly behind her, and I waited. I waited. She thought this was her hunt. She was wrong. This was ours.

“Is she alone?” I mind-linked Adrian. “Ask Bella.” Since Bella was from a different pack, I couldn’t really mind-link her directly.

“Bella says she doesn’t notice anyone else,” Adrian mind-linked back. “She seemed to have come alone. What now?”

“Everything is already set in place. Dustin and Finn will discretely follow her for now. We will spy on her, as she has spied on us. I am ready for it, all of it. I can’t wait to take that as.shole down,” I said as I pulled out the sheet covering Dean.

He was still unconscious, but the faint pulse in his throat gave us all hope. Riley’s dad had already done a lot to help Dean, and I could see some changes. I grabbed the armor-like coat that covered her from head to toe, including his face. It almost felt and looked like skin, but was made in such a way that even a bullet couldn’t pass through it. Once again, thanks to Riley’s dad. He had done a lot in his years of hiding.

I sighed as the door opened and Bella walked in. “How is he?”

“He is doing good, considering one of our own people just tried to assassinate him,” I said.

“Are we calling Erwing?” she asked as she sat down and grabbed Dean’s hand in hers. I wished I could do something to help her, anything. I had never felt so helpless in my life.

“Not yet. She needs to believe that she is in the clear. She has to stop being careful.”

I stopped when I heard a loud roar.

“What the f**k was-” My eyes widened and I shifted without a second’s thought. I knew the sound. It was the creatures. Was Ivanna so stupid to let them out of their cells? What the f**k was she thinking?

“She will know now,” Bella said with a desperate look in her eyes.

I sighed and nodded. “Stay in and lock the door.”

But I knew if the creatures wanted to come in, they would.

I ran out and saw that one of the cell doors was bent into two. Ethan was still inside the cell, but there was no sign of Ivanna.

Hiran’s mate was smashing against a big table. It collapsed with a single hit. “Who let her out?”

“No one,” Adrian said as he shifted, too. “Something is wrong. She just- she just ripped the door right off the hinges. Something made her go batshit crazy. She wasn’t like that before. She looked even more furious, if that was possible.”

“Where is Riley? Ad, where is she?”

“She was with her dad,” Adrian replied.

Karl shook his head with a roar.

“No. His scent was hidden, but I knew it. Hiran was here with Ivanna.”

“F.uck it. Riley…” I started to run. “Where is Riley?”

“Where the hell are you going, Karl? I can’t deal with her alone,” Clay growled as the creature threw the chair against the ceiling. My heart raced as my power crackled around me.

No. Hiran couldn’t have taken Riley away.

“I asked you to stay with Riley.”

“I came only after I heard the sound.”

“It is a distraction, Adrian. They must have messed up with the door to make it easier for her to rip it out,” I said. “Find a way to bring her back into the cage. Do something.”

“How the hell should I do that?”

“Marcus,” I growled out as I took two steps at a time and reached the top floor. I looked at the things scattered around. “Marcus?”

I walked inside the room and growled when I saw Marcus lying on the floor, unconscious.

“Riley isn’t here,” I mind-linked Adrian. “I am going to find him and then I am going to-“

“Oh fu.ck,” Adrian growled out.

“What?”

“She jumped right out of the freaking window. What the hell am I supposed to do now? We can’t keep this quiet anymore, not with the ruckus she was making. Damn, she just pulled a street light right out of the ground.”

“Just tell everyone about the creature, but not Ivanna. Not yet. I am going to hunt Hiran down and finish him for once and all.”

“All the best,” Adrian said. “I am calling Weston and Evans. f**k. I am calling all the guys,” Adrian said as Karl took a deep sniff.

“Follow Riley’s scent.”

***

-Riley-

I saw a woman walking outside the Red Watchers’ building with my mother. Ivanna. She saved my mother. My mother gave me a cold look and turned away.

Hiran gave her a nod as he grabbed me by my hair and I winced when his claws dug into my scalp. I couldn’t shift. That was the only reason he was alive right now. He injected me with something, and I felt my animals scream in pain… and then there was silence.

I knew that should scare me… the not shifting part, but maybe the shock was too much to feel anything. Right now, I only felt repulsion and anger.

“I will drive her. You take her,” Hiran said and Ivanna nodded.

“You injected her, right?”

“Of course,” he said as he dragged me by my hair. I looked at my mother. She kept looking at her nails, a disinterested look on her face. This was my mother. The perfect b***h. I hated her more than I had hated her before. This woman was a cold, frozen block of ice. There was no warmth in her. Everything was science and money. There was no space for feelings.

And… Hiran would never change. There was no humanity left in him for the changes to happen.

My wolf’s voice, my panther’s voice… none of it was in my head. I felt truly alone right now, but I knew I was not. It was only a matter of time…

“Whatever your plan is, you will not succeed. I know that much, you fu.cking as.shole.”

“You talk too much, Riley. Once upon a time, you were so obedient. Just the way I loved it.”

“My mates will find you… and you will die a very painful death. I promise you that,” I said as he pushed me inside the jeep. I heard a roar and shuddered. “What did you do?”

He started the jeep and drove off, until the voice faded and there was only the sound of my angry breath.

“I just messed up the door. It is so easy. When they start to look for you, we will already be gone.”

“You think it is going to be that easy? Think again.”

I hissed when he tugged at my hair. “I said shut the f.uck up.”

“Go fu.ck yourself, you dickl.ess a*s,” I said with a growl. Something about him always made me want to poke his eyes out of his f*****g skull. “You are a waste of my time and everyone else’s, you fuc.king toxic waste.”

He growled. “I am going to show you how to shut up, you fuc.king bitch.”

“Or I will permanently shut you up.”

“You will die, Riley, but before that I am going to take my sweet time with you for everything you have done.”

I turned back and the second car followed us. My mother and Ivanna Thompson, the rat.

“Or not…” I said as my eyes widened. The creature jumped out of nowhere, and landed on the hood of the jeep. The impact made a metallic sound. Hiran cursed and swerved as she watched him. Did she follow his scent? “Hey Hiran, do you remember your mate’s name?” I said with a taunting smirk.

The bastard didn’t know who she was when he messed up with her cage.

She must have recognized his scent, or him… and she followed us all the way back here. I hope she was here for her revenge and not because she felt anything for him. If that was the case…. I shuddered.

“Why the hell do you need that right now? Shut up.” He looked panicked as he tried to get her off the car, but somehow, she was still standing.

“Just tell me.”

“Eliese,” he grunted and cursed again. “What the fu.ck is this thing? How did this follow us all the way here?”

“Not us. YOU. She followed you. Hey Hiran… say his to Eliese,” I said.

“What the hell are you say-” His eyes widened when he finally understood what I was saying. He gasped and shook his head. “No, that is impossible. This isn’t-“

“It is. Hello Eliese. Did you miss Hiran?”

She snarled in response as her red eyes tracked him. I had a feeling she was only looking at him.

I hit hard on the brake as Hiran tried desperately to speed up. The jeep shuddered and shook violently before it came to a halt. I jumped out. She didn’t mind me. She kept looking at Hiran, her incisors gleaming…

“No, Riley… f**k, get this thing away.”

“She isn’t going away, Hiran. You can’t run anymore. There is only one way out for you. Death. And she is the one who will kill you for every injustice you have done to her.”

“Riley please…”

As I stood there on the side and watched, she pushed her hands through the windshield and pulled him right out of the jeep. He howled in pain as the glasses cut his skin and b***d oozed out. He didn’t even try to shift. He knew there was no use. She was fast, she was animalistic.

“Please, let me go. I am your mate.”

He was pathetic. She snarled closer to his face as she shook her bald, patchy head.

“Eleise.”

She let out a loud roar and then a grunt. She pulled him up by his shirt and shook him, like he was a ragdoll. Her eyes, red, bloodthirsty, gleamed. She wanted b***d. His b***d.

“You made a mistake when you messed up her cage door,” I said as she threw him down. He hit the ground with a shout. She crouched down and studied him. Her eyes burned as her claws… that looked like they were made of metals… cut into his cheeks. His scream filled the air. Even I winced. But I couldn’t look away.

***tw: Torture***

Every thing he had done to me flashed in front of me, as I watched her.

She was taking her sweet time.

I knew. This was revenge. She knew him. She hated him.

How could she not… after everything he had done to her?

What he did to me paled in comparison to what he did to her, his own mate. The one he was supposed to love and cherish, and protect. He was the reason she was like this.

“I am sorry. I am-“

Her growl was like a… f**k you.

And then she pulled him up and let him go.

“What are you-“

He started to run, and within a single jump, she stood in front of him.

She was… playing him.

Fu.ck. Intrigued, I watched it.

She grabbed his hand in hers and snapped it in two. Bones poked out of his skin as he screamed in agony. She looked like she was smiling.

“End him, Eliese. He had lived long enough.”

If she didn’t, I would. Because… I knew he would come back, again, if he walked out of here, alive.

She looked at him, and nodded. Did she understand me?

And then I heard it. The sickening sound of bones breaking.

Snap. Snap. Snap. Legs. Hands. Fingers.

She did it diligently. Every snap was followed by a scream. She watched it, relished it and then another snap. When she was done, Hiran was a sobbing, whimpering mess. He didn’t even have the strength to scream.

“Riley, save me. Please…”

“You and Jin deserve this for what you did to her. They say Karma is a bitch… well… your karma is… a bit more than a basic bitch.”

I didn’t even feel a smidgen of remorse.

I only felt cold satisfaction as I watched Eleise pushing her claws straight into his throat. Now he couldn’t even scream. He was still alive, though.

Somehow she knew how to hurt him and not kill him, just yet.

The car where my mother was came to a halt and Ivanna jumped out. She growled as she grabbed her gun. It didn’t look like a norma gun. She begin shooting at Eleise. Eleise roared, but she didn’t let go of Hiran.

I grabbbed a big stone by the roadside and threw it at Ivanna. She turned to me and shot at me.

“What the f**k are you doing?” my mother hissed.

“What? You suddenly feel maternal love, Nadia?”

It looked like the two women already knew each other.

“No, but we need her alive.”

Yeah, that! I didn’t, even for one second, believe that she cared for my safety.

I slammed against Ivanna, and her gun fell.

“FINISH HIM, ELEISE.”

She howled. Whatever was in the bullet was hurting her.

“f**k. What was in that bullet?”

“Something that will permanently put her to sleep,” Ivanna stood up and grabbed me by my arm. “They will both die. Let’s take you back to where you belong, Emorilee.”

“f**k, you aren’t taking me anywhere.” I kicked Ivanna in her stomach, but of course, without my animals, it was only like a weak punch. She snarled.

I heard a loud roar and turned to see Eleise throwing down Hiran’s tattered body. He looked like torn paper. Skin and bones and b***d… There was no resemblance to a human…

And then Eleise fell down next to him, and a whimper left her lips before I saw her skin peeling off, and for a second, I could see her real skin, before she turned blue, and I knew…

I didn’t have to see her to know she was gone.

A tear rolled down my eyes as Ivanna hit me on the head with her pistol. I stumbled back, and shook my head. She wasn’t taking me anywhere.

“Stop. You have no animal, and no one to help you. Come with us like a good fu.cking girl,” Ivanna growled out. Her eyes flashed with the hint of her wolf.

I heard a snarl, and surprised, I turned to look at my mother. She glowed. Her yellow eyes met me, and for the first time… I saw something in her eyes…

“She still has me.”

And she shifted, pounced with her claws pointed straight at Ivanna and ripped her intestines straight out of her stomach. It fell to the ground with a soft squelch.

“Riley…” I turned to look at Karl. He was in his Lycan form. I ran to him and hugged him. I knew Roman wanted to catch the one at the top…

“I am sorry. She is dead. Mother killed her.”

MOTHER KILLED HER???