Shackled (The Lord Series) by Amy T

194. Olivia - Choices I

It is not strange for me to see shit while I am high as fuck but this is the first time I'm hallucinating about four masked women armed to the teeth. Five actually. And the funny part is that they saved me from Jason. Or so they say. Like I needed saving. I was perfectly fine going with Jason and slipping back into the life I am used to. To being fucked by countless men and drugged and... beaten by Jason whenever he feels like it. It's not very different from what Tyson and Rueben did t me, minus the drugs, but at least I understand their anger. But Jason? He hates me because he wants to. Because he has been a bully all his life.

I am wearing a warm coat I don't recognize and I bury my face in the fur around the collar.

"It's faux fur," one of the women tells me. She is the only one not wearing a coat. Maybe the one I have belongs to her. "We also have blankets if you want one."

I remain quiet because what good will it do to talk to a hallucination? At least I am not seeing Camila or other people from the past.

“Do you want water or food?” another asks me and I shrug.

My hallucinations usually force me to relive nightmares I want to forget, but this one doesn't seem that bad. Four masked women standing in front of the car I'm sitting in. The fifth one is surveying the surroundings. “This is not real so it doesn't matter if I eat or not,” I finally decide to speak. “Just a hallucination.”

After a small hesitation, the one without a coat says, “This is real. The drug used on you was a tranquilizer, so you are not high. We already got it out of your system.”

I blink. If I am not high, then... where is Jason? "Who are you?"

"I am Wasp," the one without a coat says, "and" pointing at the other women, she adds, "Beetle, Cricket, and Mantis. The one over there is Moth."

"Those are rather..... peculiar names. Almost as if you were...."

don't finish my thought, but understanding what I mean,

say. Silence falls around us and not knowing

to the cemetery,

him?" I blurt out. I am not sure if I should feel relieved or not. Relieved, I decide in

Disappointment fills me. I don't know why I even bother, I will never be free of Jason. "We don't have much time, but I have an important question to ask-do you want to come with

plural? Could it be that Jasper anchored his demon to me? Then why do I only feel connected to Ansel? "How do you know I am bonded?" I ask Wasp. "Hellstars have powers. Mine allows me to see bonds," Wasp

have powers. I only know they can be soulmates to the demons or angels most compatible with them. They can bond with

hellstar, but the bond between us is different than the one from

and

the other one is

*One bond is old.*

My ears ring.

breathe through my

I feel like drowning.

heart drums in

*One bond is old.*

with

My vision tunnels.