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

gives me a curt nod, letting me know 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 only sees them as se x

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the stun belt, waterboarding, or the pliers. I

against violence toward women, I would have used

to her.

scorpion walks up her

what you know about Carlos,” I say as

I r-really

pinching her nipple hard, I add, “You think Carlos is a sa

and I put the knife on the side of her ti t and put the tip in. Blood

will hear her and barge in at any time but because

lip,

keeps walking up

you know about Carlos,” I demand as I push another needle

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

more needles in her areola again when the door opens, and Rueben enters,

in here with her,” he says

Jasper suspect anything?”

tongue out.” The bit ch obeys, and he uses her mouth as an ashtray as we keep talking. “Nah, he is having a little too much fun with Mose and Ansel.” Looking at the scorpion, he says, “That thing won’t kill her,

tell me you’re

laughs as he puts out the cigar on the bit ch’s tongue. “Eat it!” he snarls as he

throat.

punches her thigh with such force I

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break.

scorpion falls

rolling at the back of her head because of the pain. Jasper might be the strongest of

I pick up the scorpion and put it back on her leg, close to

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

against the restraints. I