Shackled (The Lord Series) by Amy T

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When part of the blood-brothers present begin to ask for more information, Elder Calum says, “I am going to tell you, but first.” he looks at a man who sits with Rin and his blood-brothers and has the hood of his sweatshirt pulled over his face, “Yan, you may reveal your identity.”

If I remember correctly, Yan is Rin’s cousin, but he went missing years ago, and everyone thought he was dead.

Yan pulls back his hood. The number 514 is tattooed on his left cheek. Strange.

“The last time I was here was a day before I turned thirteen. A few days after my birthday, I was kidnapped and taken to a medical facility.” He stops for a few seconds before continuing. “The years spent there have been hard, with all kinds of experiments performed on me.”

“What was the purpose of the experiments?” Elder Janoah asks.

Yan traces the tattoo on his face with the tip of his finger. “Ever since I was captured, I have been wondering the same thing. Of course, nothing was revealed to me or the other experiments, but after I escaped, I spent some time spying and trying to find out what Azael’s real intentions were.” Whispers rise in the Inferno Room. Yan keeps talking. “I am certain he is making an army to later attack the Garden of Eden.”

Is he referring to Azael, who was once Lucifer’s right hand?

More blood-brothers start to speak, and the Elders have to raise their voices before silence returns.

From next to me, Rueben asks, “Azael?”

“The Betrayer,” Yan confirms my suspicion.

After betraying Lucifer, Azael was hated by both angels and demons and was shunned even by the Outcasts. For a long time, he lived on Earth in hiding, never revealing his true nature or name. Apparently, the angels accepted him among themselves, but with what purpose? If Yan is right, then…Go d knows what Azael is plotting, especially since he is using his real name.

“What happens now?” Alekos asks.

Elder Calum looks around the Inferno Room. “We must stop Azael before he sets his plan in motion.”

“How?” Stefan asks.

leader of the Sisterhood, Wasp, contacted me. She is willing to

in the dark about their return. It is an organization established by hellstars centuries ago to protect them from any harm; in time, when no more hellstar were born, normal women took hold of it, right now, its sole purpose is to make h o e s think they don’t need men, which is total bullshi t because them bi t c h e s

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it on the table in front of him. He is quiet as he works on the laptop for a few minutes. When he establishes a video call with someone, he

real intentions

to help us, why does she hide her true

now is to stop Azael from

chair. “Why do you care so much what happens to the Garden of Eden? After all,

at me, her eyes hidden by shadows. “Would you like the angels to destroy the only

to her stupi d question. Go d won’t let anything happen to the

time. It’s not that Go d has abandoned us, but the actions of the Outcasts have hurt him deeply, and since the day he closed the gates of Heaven, he has been spending his entire time in his palace, not wanting to see anyone. Go d is grieving, and that is why

“What things?” someone asks.

is that this world is not the only

to be tells us

and angels from this Universe have power over

other Universes, others

Go d’ s

chuckle. I have heard the theory before, but I always

bunch of cra

“Many,” says Wasp.

how do these multiple Universes fit into the story, and what do

blight that destroys everything in its path. A group of female angels and demons managed to escape from those worlds that

know this?” Elder Calum questions