My Alpha and Beta

Ch. 59 - Defending What's Right

Riley POV

The horrors I just witnessed were unexplainable. I wanted to look away, but I couldn't. I have never seen anything so heinous in my life. I grew up in New York and my father was the police chief. I was aware of the vile things humans did to one another. I never witnessed it though.

Demetrius wasn't human either. He was something that could overpower us all, and he lived for five hundred years. It seemed cruel and unfair for the world to allow something so evil to walk among us. I never thought much about our world spiritually, but I thought there would be more of a balance. I had to believe if evil like Demetrius could exist, then something equally as good could too.

I wasn't so foolish or naive to think I could be the one to kill him. I would stop at nothing to be the one that finds his undoing though. There had to be a way to get out from under his grasp.

"Do as the guards tell you, beautiful. Hopefully this will all be over soon." Jax kissed my lips and I felt the fear he had that he may never see me again.

"I will be safe. I didn't make it this far just to be killed now. Keep a clear head with the Devil. I want to spend the rest of my life with you and our child." I looked to him with all my love. He needs to return to me.

"We need to go!" Liam spit out.

He watched us with such jealousy. It wasn't that we were together, but the fact he wouldn't let himself be with us too. He wanted to love me as easily as Jax did. I saw the great Alpha now, and he was ruled only by the fear inside him.

"Be safe." I stepped to Liam and put my arms around his neck. Jax had once said Liam had potential to be the greatest Alpha their kind ever knew. Jax saw the raw power Liam held, but he also saw how he was too afraid to use it.

"You too." He whispered then pulled away to get back in the car. I wanted to wipe away his fear, but how could I convince the second most powerful beast in the world of anything?

I watched with tears in my eyes as the car pulled away. "We will bring you to Barry's house." The guard they left me with said. I nodded my head and got in his car.

I walked up to a white two-story Victorian style home. It had a large front porch with a light blue swing off to the side.

"Riley. Are you ok?" Katie answered the door and rushed me inside. The guard took a post at the front with three others. I guess Jax told them to stand guard.

"Not really."

"I'm sorry." She spoke with such sadness.

There was nothing she did wrong though. Katie led me down a hallway, then to a study. Inside was a wall length bookshelf. She removed six books and the shelves parted, revealing stairs.

"What is this?" I looked with worry at the dark descending stairs.

"Secret passage to our basement."

"You guys really are afraid of this Lycan God." My fingers brushed over the symbols carved on the side of the parted shelves. I felt an electrical charge in my skin as it came into contact with it. My body shuddered once I crossed over the threshold. That was definitely some old ritual magic they had protecting this place.

"Anyone with any sense would be afraid of him. He has no soul, Riley. God isn't what he is, although he thinks of himself as one. A demon from the deepest most vile pits of hell is who created that monster." Katie spoke with pure disgust.

"Is that a metaphor or the truth. I'm not sure what is real and what is lore anymore."

"Every story ever told has a hint of truth to it." Is all she said. That wasn't creepy at all.