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.

me. She is willing to help us,” Elder Calum informs

to protect them from any harm; in time, when no more hellstar were born, normal women took hold of

person want in exchange for

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minutes. When he establishes a video call with someone, he turns the laptop to face everyone else. A woman wearing a black mask and

what your real intentions

us, why does she hide

by a microphone she wears on her cloak. “My intention for now is to stop Azael from destroying Raphael and Eden’s creation-the garden where angels and

my chair. “Why do you care so much what happens to the Garden of Eden? After all, you are not at

like the angels to destroy the only place your demon and

softly but don’t reply to her stupi d question. Go d won’t let anything happen to the

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

“What things?” someone asks.

say is that this world is not the only one that has

how humans came to be tells us otherwise,” someone

from this Universe have

Universes,

of Go d’ s creation,”

there?” I chuckle. I have heard the theory before, but I always thought it

of

“Many,” says Wasp.

and what do they

destroys everything in its path. A group of female angels and demons

this?” Elder Calum questions