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

is

six years

was fourteen and visited Camila in her home. He was older than me by five

his little sister or her friends, but he would sometimes make an effort to hang out with us, especially if we played video games. Gradually,

wanted to do the same to me, but Jason hid me in the Celestial Heaven, supposedly

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

chuckles before saying to the men accompanying him, “We should be on the move if we want to catch any more bitches and have fun with them.” Looking at the one I think is Rueben, he adds, “If you do decide to keep her,

medical facility where they

129. Olivia

catch any STDs. I don’t know exactly what 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

quickly vanish into the darkness,

Rueben says and moves towards

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

Tyson got her as a gift for me, so what

ears, and I feel so sick I turn my head to the side and empty whatever is