Betrayed Luna's Second Chance Alphas
Betrayed Luna’s Second Chance Alphas – Chapter 77

-Riley-

I pulled away from Karl’s furry, warm embrace and looked at Nadia.

Mother?

What did she just do, and why did she do it? After everything she had put me through, why did she help me?

“Why?” I whispered and the Panther shook her head. “Shift, Nadia.”

She looked reluctant.

I wondered what Rene would think right now, but unfortunately, I couldn’t ask her, or talk with Gem. I hoped that this was only temporary.

“You are not going to run away, are you?” I walked to the car Ivanna drove and found a backpack. Every shifter had a backpack full of spare clothes, always with them. It was cool to shift, but one disadvantage was to replace all the clothes when you had to shift.

My mother could have done something to experiment on THAT!

I pulled out a long dress and threw it in front of the panther. “Shift. We need to talk.”

The Panther left out a long suffering sigh before she shifted and wore the dress. Nadia looked at me with a sigh.

“What?”

“Why do you kill her? Why did you save me?”

“Well. They were planning to… you know, hurt you?”

“You had done it, too, over and over again. How is this any different?” I said. My body was shaking. Who the f**k was she? Why couldn’t I understand this woman?

“I didn’t want you dead, and that is what this person will do to you if he catches you.”

“So you just want to use me for your experiment? Yeah, how is that any better, MOTHER?” I snarled. Karl put his hand on my shoulder and pulled me closer to him, trying to comfort me, but I felt like I would explode.

Maybe my father was right. I did need closure. I mean, this was still affecting me.

“Riley, Kitten…” Karl whispered softly.

“Tell me,” I said, and in the silence, my voice was like booming thunder. She looked nervous as she bit her lips.

“No, not always. I just want to find out everything about you and maybe help others.”

“Help? Are you f*****g kidding me now, Nadia? Help?” I scoffed. My body burned in anger and repulsion. What the f**k was she talking about?

“Riley, you are a miracle, and the thing in you, it makes you stronger, and I just want to find out what is-“

I shook my head with a sigh. I had heard enough.

“No, you are selfish. You just wanted the money and the fame. Well, it is useless, anyway. Talking. Take her back to the prison, Karl,” I said as I turned away from her.

“Not yet. I can’t go to prison yet. There is still someone else to catch.”

“You know? Do you know who is doing all of this?” I asked as I stared at her. We still had bigger fish to catch.

“I don’t know who he is, but the address she entered into her GPS, that is where Ivanna is going to take me, and Hiran is going to take you. Some kind of temporary lab they built or something. She had been rambling. But the b***h never said his name. That is why I have to go along with her plan. I knew both of us could defeat Ivanna and the others if it comes to that. But then this happened!” Nadia sighed as she pointed to the bloody mess around us.

I still felt sad when I looked at Hiran’s mate lying next to him. At least, she got her revenge.

“Let’s go then?” I said as I looked at Karl. He shifted and my mother looked away.

“Find me something to wear? I was in too much of a rush,” he said and I knew it was inappropriate right now, with the mess around us and with my evil mother standing just a few feet away from us, but when Rome was naked, I couldn’t help myself. I licked my lips and Roman shook his head as he mouthed, “Dirty Kitten.”

I shrugged as I looked at his c*ck and it jerked. I winked and Roman shook his head.

“Any moment now, Riley?” he said with a taunting look in my direction. I smirked before walking to Hiran’s jeep and grabbed pants from the backseat. I gave it to Roman and traced my finger down his abdomen.

“When all this s**t is over, I am going to lock you and Adrian in a room for days and just- have my way with you.”

I heard my mother chuckle, and Roman cleared his throat as he pulled on his pants.

“You are unbelievable, Kitten. I want to bite that indecent mouth of yours, but not with my mother in law standing right there. Even though she is evil, she is still your mother.”

“She is not my mother,” I grunted as we walked towards Ivanna’s car.

Nadia took in a deep breath as she opened the back door.

“We aren’t going there yet. We need to have a backup. We can’t just rush in,” Roman said. “Do you have a phone?”

“No, that f*****g as.shole broke it when he grabbed me from the Red Watchers’ building.”

“Here,” Nadia handed a phone to him. “It must be Ivanna’s second phone.”

Roman quickly dialled a number, and put it on speaker. “Rome, did you find Riley?” He sounded scared.

“Yes, Ad. I am fine. Rome found me.”

“Thank the goddess. I am so sorry baby. I shouldn’t have left you.”

“You have to go. You only left because of the creature.”

“Yeah, talking about the creature, I lost her. But she made a mess here.”

“She came tracking Hiran’s scent, and she- she killed him,” Roman said. “And Nadia-“

“That evil witch-“Adrian snarled. “If I see her again-“

“She is here,” I said and Adrian gasped and cleared his throat. “She killed Ivanna. She helped us.”

“Yeah? Maybe I won’t punch her in the nose, then,” Adrian said, and I chuckled.

“Yes. And I am going to send you the GPS location. Call Finn and Dustin. Maybe Weston and Sharon, too. Just call everyone who is available and take them to the location. Yes? We think that human might be there.”

“Really? I will be there soon. And you guys, stay safe.”

He hung up, and Roman drove the car. We finally reached what looked like an old garage.

“Are you sure this is the place?”

“I don’t know. I just saw her entering the address, and then she said we would be going directly to meet the boss.”

“Okay. Nadia, you need to go in with Riley, first. Check out the place, the person behind all of this,” Rome said.

“But he would be waiting for Ivanna. What am I supposed to-“

Before she could say anything more, the door opened.

“Ramsay…” Roman growled out.

“Ivanna, did you find Nadia?” He asked and Nadia got out of the car as she walked to Ramsay. He smiled at her. He actually, really smiled. It was how a friend would smile.

“Oh God, you are alright.”

Nadia nodded and Ramsay smiled again.

“They look like friends,” I whispered as I stared at them. “Like good friends. They are both evil. So it works.”

“Is your daughter-” Ramsay hesitated and Nadia gave him a look. “I didn’t really want to. I mean… I know you will not want her dead.”

Nadia wrinkled her brows. “Why are you doing this now? You said you are getting out of the country with Feyona, and now you are here?”

Ramsay actually looked nervous.

“He threatened Feyona, and I can’t-“

“Is he here? Who the hell is he? Who is doing all of this?” Nadia asked as Roman pushed the door open with a growl.

“What the hell did you do, Nadia?” He growled out as Roman jumped out of the car.

“Roman Night. F**k… what is he doing here, Nadia? You- you did this? You know it is- it is stupid. Just leave. All of you. Before he comes back.” I followed Roman out, my step hesitant. His eyes widened when he saw me there. “And you are an i***t to bring her here.”

“Bring the f*****g human-“

“You are making a big mistake. Just leave, Roman. This isn’t a fight you want to be in right now.”

“Ivanna is dead. So is Hiran and no one else is getting their dirty hand on my mate.”

“I warned you.”

“Roman… he sounds serious. Let’s go.”

“If we leave now, Riley, we will have to forever live wondering when he will come back. I don’t want you to live in fear.”

“But-“

“But… you are not going anywhere. It is nice to finally meet you, Riley Lowe.”

I whirled around and saw a man walking towards us and a few men followed him with guns, probably filled with drugs and silver bullets.

They all looked like humans, but something about them was off. They looked… robotic. As if they were being controlled.

“You … it is you.”

Roman’s body shook hard. His body started to glow in his power as he took a step towards that man.

The man didn’t even look at Roman. He was looking at me and I felt like a million worms were crawling all along my body.

“So you brought her here? You are good, Nadia. Now, start prepping her. I have waited enough for-“

“Nobody is touching my daughter.” Nadia growled out. She looked really fierce, and I shook my head. I still didn’t know how to feel about this. I knew she was not good. I knew she had hurt me over years, and I would never forgive her or forget any of that.

But this change of heart was making me confused.

“Oh, OH!” the man said in a sing-song voice. “Suddenly you developed motherly love? How funny?! Nadia, I am going to get what was promised to me. Years and years. I paid for everything, and I am going to get me returns for my investment.”

“No,” Roman growled as he protectively stood in front of me, ready to shift. Nadia snarled and her yellow energy twisted around her as her eyes flashed yellow.

“Attack them, and do not hurt the girl. The rest of them, I don’t care. Kill them. Or feed them to dogs.”

Bullets whizzed past my head, narrowly missing my ear. I saw as Nadia and Roman shifted. I couldn’t even shift. I hated it.

The six men with the human had now doubled. No tripled. They kept coming with their machine guns.

Roman and Nadia were quite outnumbered. I prayed with all my heart that Adrian would come before it was too late.

Two men grabbed me by my hand. I kicked one in his nuts and as he collapsed to the floor, I whirled towards the second one and slammed the base of my palm against his nose, hard. He screamed and cursed as b***d dripped down his nose.

“Do NOT touch me without my permission,” I said as I kicked the first one who was still cupping his f*****g balls in his back. His face hit the concrete floor and he screamed in pain.

“What are you looking at Ramsay? Grab her. Feyona still has her bodyguards.”

Ramsay hesitated for a second before he ran at me on full speed. I side-stepped, but he was faster, and without my animals, my speed wasn’t as it would have been with them.

“I told you to go back,” he hissed softly as he grabbed me by my shoulder. I punched him, but he didn’t even flinch. He felt like a f*****g granite under my fist.

“Into the car. Take her to the car.”

Ramsay dragged me to the car. Karl tried to break away from the men, but he was surrounded. They had so many guns and when he was distracted, trying to get to me, one of the humans shot at him. He howled in pain.

“Get your filthy hand off of her,” I heard Adrian growl as he pulled me away from Ramsay and kicked him in his stomach. Ramsay stumbled back. “Nobody touches my mate without her permission.”

“That is exactly what I said,” I said to Adrian with a tired smile as I looked at Karl. He was still fighting, but he looked weak.

I could hear the rumbling of the engine. “You came with backup.”

“Yes. Enough to kill all these assholes right here,” Adrian said with dark growl as more cars rushed in.

Dustin and another guy ran towards Karl. I let out a breath of relief. I knew Rome and Karl were stronger, but I was still worried about that bullet. I didn’t know where it hit him and it made me worry.

The man started to run towards his car, his steps desperate. He knew he was surrounded. His eyes swivelled around as he looked for a way out.

“He is getting away,” I said to Adrian with a frown as I saw the man opening his car door. Adrian didn’t even make a move to pull away from me. His arms were around me as he sighed. “Ad, move. He is going to leave.” I was worried. Adrian scoffed and shook his head. “Yeah, no.”

“No, he is not,” Finn said as he jumped out of a moving car. He landed smoothly next to the human, and kicked the car door shut. “Not so fast, Chief Matthews.”

“Chief Matthews?”

I recognized that name.

“Isn’t he the one – the NYPD chief who helped you guys to find-“

Adrian nodded with a loud growl. “Him, alright. That f*cking a*****e…”

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