Shackled (The Lord Series) by Amy T

Shackled (The Lord Series)

Tyson

While I am not one to put triggers to chapters, please note this chapter is very violent.

Her chin trembles.

“Why are you doing this? Rueben, I understand his motives, but-”

I grab her chin between my fingers, and she stops speaking. “You want to know why I hate your very existence?” My fingers dig into her flesh, forcing her jaw open. “Because you are a f uc king Du chess wh ore. You and all your kind should be exterminated. And every-f**kking-thing that happened to you is because you couldn’t keep your legs closed.”

The bit ch starts to cry, and I slap her across the face with the back of my right hand, and her head flies to the side. I hate-hate-when women cry. They use their tears as a way to manipulate men to obtain what they want. It doesn’t work on me, though. I am practically h oe-proofed by now.

“Stop with the fake tears!” I snarl.

She so bs quietly-I guess it can’t be helped since women are emotional creatures, aka too stu pid to understand what they are told-and I slowly walk around the shed, looking at my pets.

I became fascinated with snakes and scorpions five years ago, at twenty-one, and since then, I’ve studied them, learning a lot about and from them.

They are, umm, rather charming creatures. I know that not many will agree with me, but I don’t care. Some like dogs and cats, I like other kinds of animals. I even have a deathstalker scorpion tattooed on my back and a boa on my left hand, its body wrapped around my arm and its head on my shoulder.

I open one of the terrariums and take out an emperor scorpion. While it has venom, it is not lethal to humans, but it is still unpleasant, and also, it causes pain with its pedipalps.

If the bi tch is afraid of snakes, I bet she is afraid of scorpions as well.

I turn to face her, and her eyes go wide with terror.

“Have you ever seen a scorpion before?”

Her voice trembles as she replies. “Not in real life.”

“I guess it’s your lucky day then,” I say and go over to her and put the scorpion on her left knee.

She lets out a shriek, and I wrap my fingers around her neck, and I squeeze it hard.

one more time, and I will pull out all your teeth,” I

she understands, and I step away from her and go to my torture kit. It is something I put together over time, and it fits in a toolbox. The first item that went in it was given to me by Reyes, another troubled Lord like me, but for other reasons. As a Lord, Reyes is as ruthless as I am, although he doesn’t despise women as I do, he

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belt, waterboarding, or the pliers. I have many other things in there, but I am not

is against violence toward women,

put on a pair of gloves, pick up the knife, a box of needles and return to her. Her nails are painted red-go figure-

scorpion walks up

about Carlos,” I say as I open the needle box and pick up

I r-really don’t know

it with the knife. I grab one of her ti ts and pinching her nipple hard, I add, “You think Carlos is a sa dist? I can be ten times

of her ti t and put the tip in.

t off!” I bark. Not because I fear Jasper will hear her

bites her bottom lip, tears

walking up her

know about Carlos,” I demand

before starting to cough. Any other person would believe she is sick, but not me. Just a

her areola again when the door opens, and Rueben enters,

find you in here with her,” he says as he locks the

Jasper suspect anything?” I

and he uses her mouth as an ashtray as we keep talking. “Nah, he is having a little too much fun

me you’re worried about

the bit ch’s tongue.

throat.

the floor, and he punches her thigh

2/4

139, Tyson

break.

scorpion falls off of

coming from her opened mouth, her eyes rolling at the back of her head because of the pain. Jasper might be the strongest of all five of us, but Rueben comes second

careful,” I say as I pick up the scorpion and

lands between them. Annoyed by the sudden movements, the scorpion plunges her stinger

ody murder, bucking against the restraints. I bet it hurts like