Shackled (The Lord Series) by Amy T

129. Olivia

You made me fall in love.

The way he says excellent, with so much viciousness and satisfaction, tells me I should fear him more than I fear Jason. The man, whoever he is, won’t doubt for a second to harm me in the most cruel way possible. The blinding pain coming from my ribs is proof that the Lords are as vicious as they could be. The Dukes might treat women like property, but the Lords destroy everything they touch, their hearts as cruel as the demons they have inside them. They abuse and share women among themself and kill them in the cruelest ways.

One of the Lords, tall, strong, and from the color of his skin, I assume he is African–American, says, “We were supposed to find someone to claim for ourselves not to torture until she dies.” He is the one who prevented the other one from beating me to death.

“It’s her or no one,” the one who broke my ribs insists. “We can take her home, or I can disappear with her, never to be seen again, it’s all the same to me, but she won’t get away from me. Not this time, not when I finally have the opportunity to make her pay for what she did,” he snarls.

Make her pay for what she did.

My heart thunders in my chest.

Could he be Rueben, Camila’s brother?

The mask he wears prevents me from seeing his face, but my gaze goes to his chest–his torso is bare, he is wearing only a pair of camouflage pants–the North Star is tattooed in the middle of it.

Rueben.

from him, he finally

is for the

six years

when I was fourteen and visited Camila in her home. He was

would sometimes make an effort to hang out with us, especially if we played video games.

hid me in the Celestial Heaven,

to make me pay even more for what I have and haven’t done, as his hate and desire for revenge

bitches and have fun with them.” Looking at the one I think is Rueben,

a medical facility where they did something to me so I

129. Olivia

was done to me since I was sedated almost the entire time I was there, but from what I heard from the other pornai in the Celestial Heaven, he did the same to them, and no matter how many

vanish into the darkness,

should go as well,” Rueben says and moves

a moment, not knowing what Rueben will do to me next, but apparently, the African–American Lord is dead set on

so what I do with her from now on

my head to