Shackled (The Lord Series) by Amy T

Shackled (The Lord Series)

121. Experiment 514

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The woman on my right shoulder thrashes, wanting to escape me, making me even angrier with her and my angel because I don’t understand his obsession with her.

The skirt she is wearing is short, her thighs exposed to the cold December winter, and I slap them hard, causing her as much pain as I can, her screams being muffled by the gag in her mouth and the sack covering her face.

“Stay still,” I growl.

Laughter and loud music come from the house in front of me, and for a moment, I question myself why I came here. Probably hoping my family is looking for me, but here they are, having a good time during Christmas.

What dia

did I expect, for them to put all their lives on hold just because Azael faked my death?

I touch the left side of my torso, the bandages soaked with blood. The only reason I am here is because I found someone who could remove the tracker from my spine without killing me, and now Azael can no longer find me. But I had to give up my left kidney. A small price to pay to be with my family again. And now that I am here, in front of the house I grew up in, I can’t even knock on the door. What will my family even think of me? Will they recognize me? And if yes, will they welcome me or shun me?

No, I should turn around and find a place where I can figure out why my angel wants this woman. My demon doesn’t like her, and to be honest, neither do L.

The music stops.

I turn around and start walking away when the front door opens. My heart beats faster. “What do you want?” a man asks me.

Cirro.

He must have seen me through the window.

“I have mistaken this house for another,” I reply.

“I know that voice. Turn around,” Cirro demands.

It is dark outside, and being certain he won’t recognize me, I do as he asks.

He turns on the light from the porch. “Good God! You are alive. Rin! Rin!”

And then my cousins in the doorframe. Even if fifty feet separates us, I can see his eyes shining with unshed

tears. Levi is behind him.

“Yan,” his voice trembles as he says my name.

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Yan.

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I have been 514 for so long that I almost forgot my name. That’s why I told it to 713. But now she is dead, and I won’t

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rest until 919 and Azael pay for taking her away from me.

Rin runs to me, and I throw the woman to the ground and give my cousin a bear hug. He is the only one who can touch me without making me want to kill him.

“I never thought I would see you again,” my voice cracks.

“I looked for you everywhere until I convinced myself that you were indeed dead. When Stefan told me he saw you in a facility, I didn’t believe it.” He takes a step back and looks at me. “You look like shit. And why is 514 tattooed on your face? Were you an experiment as well?”

How does he know about the experiments? I thought Azael kept it a secret.

“Yeah.” There is no reason to lie about it.

why you turned out to be so

since Azael kidnapped me, I laugh. “I missed you

to get up, but her hands and legs are tied together. Rin looks at her. “Who is

inside, and I’ll tell you

and we put her on the

I assume became Rin’s blood–brothers, follow us,

remove the sack from her face. Tears run down her

is 666, and my angel is obsessed with

Emily,”

666. So Emily is her

will thank you for finding

another man touching her makes my angel

say angel? Are you a Duke then?” Levi asks, his

well. And no one touches her until I

(The Lord

121. Stefan

meeting right on the day we are supposed to take Angel on our

end.

urgency is, there are many blood–brothers to

duty for an entire month,” I complain

sitting near my blood–brothers and me, smirks. “I thought

just the point,” I groan in frustration wishing I didn’t have to leave bed so early in the morning and kept snuggling with Angel. “What happened

his left cheek. “My Christmas gift

one of the gifts Angel gave

My wife.

Fuck.

how

am still getting used to the new me. Some blood–brothers are slowly overpowered by their demons after the Piercing Ceremony until

the tattoo that covers my torso, the two words written

her as our Lady. We know it, but saying it out loud is another thing entirely, as we don’t want her to realize how undeserving of having

training but she is of a good breed.

a woman. Reuben is even more deranged than

Calum clears his throat,

D other things. I had Brother Cirro analyze it, and after reading report after report and watching hundreds of videos, he and I came to the same conclusion. The Dukes are preparing something that will

know it.”

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121. Stefan

mean, Elder?” one of the blood–brothers

show you,” Elder Calum replies. “Yan, you

gaze goes to Rin and his blood–brothers. A fourth person has been sitting between Rin and Levi, his face

Yan.

filled with thoughts of Angel and how to keep her safe from any harm, especially since Carlos is still out there. Just thinking that he will come after her fills me with a rage I have never felt before and a growl leaves

my left shoulder. “I

who went missing….” He pauses for a moment. “Several years ago. I was locked up

on me.

what purpose?” Elder Janoah wants to

the tattoo on his face. “For a long time, I asked myself the same thing over and over again until I felt I was going insane. After I escaped, I spent many weeks observing the Dukes and I think I know what Azael is trying to do. He is making an

the Elders a few tries before they have our full

more.

“Azael?” Reuben asks.

Betrayer,” Yan

Earth for a long time, his identity always hidden,

that if we find Azael, we will find

“What now?” Alekos asks.

the Dukes before they set their

want

of the Sisterhood contacted me. She is willing to help us,”

for

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