Shackled (The Lord Series) by Amy T

280. Tyson - Revenge V

I never saw myself as a father. Fuck. I didn't even think I had it in me to be a good parent. My mom was an absolute nightmare to live with. By the time I moved in with my father and his family, all I knew was that I'd never get married. All that changed when I met Olivia. I wanted her, and I wanted a family with her. Spencer is the fulfillment of the dream we shared.

Mila walks up to the door. "It's this way," she says and walks out.

Before I go to her, I ask Ansel, "Can you find some nails and a hammer for me?"

He doesn't even ask what I need them for. "Sure thing."

Mila waits for me down the hall, next to another room.

For a moment, I get nervous. I've never been inside Olivia's room before. I know that she didn't live here of her own volition, but knowing her, drugs or not, she created a place where she wanted to think she could hide from the world. Mila opens the door for me. "This is where Olivia stayed while she lived here."

Before I enter, I say to her, "Don't even think about leaving. You won't like what we'll do to you when you find you."

"I'm not stupid to run away from Lords. Where will I even go, anyway?" Mila wonders before leaving me alone.

Olivia's room-if I can even call it that is smaller than my office. There's a single bed, a vanity desk, a TV, an old system sound, and a closet. No books. She must have hated not having anything to read. Now that I think about it, I never once saw her read at the farm.

When Rueben and I took her shopping and saw the books and vinyl albums there, I knew she would be interested in them, especially if they had jazz on them. The tricky part was buying them without her or Rueben noticing. Or leaving them in Jasper's room without anyone noticing.

I go to the sound system, curious to see what type of music Olivia listened to while she was here. When my favorite song, Evil, starts to play, I'm taken by surprise. I didn't think she would remember.

While the song plays, I lay on her bed. The window is nearby. She probably lay in the same position as me, listening to the song and looking out the window. What did she think about in those moments? About our son or how I failed her? I grab her pillow and inhale her scent.

fuck is

and kick her out? If something happens to her, he

go to her old closet, and look inside. Most of the clothes inside are red, which makes me frown. She hates that color-at least, that's what she told me. For sure, Jason forced her to wear those clothes. Lastly, I go to the vanity

to leave when I see something carved below the mirror in the alphabet we invented:

does it ring a bell to me? Did I read somewhere? Nothing comes to mind,

take long to find it. The drawers of his desk are thrown on the floor, the contents gone. The closet is open, most of the clothes are missing. By

on the wall is a painting of a

Jason missed something, but there is nothing

is still passed out, and Sean is

and go after Mose," I

kind enough to tell

we

nails and the hammer you

them to the living

see how twisted my mind is. The only ones safe from my

he'd never

and Sean to the armchair. Alive, as I want them to deliver a message to Jason-tell me where my son is, or the next ones will be you and your father." With Jason

for Olivia and Mose missing, I'd

nail his feet, shoulder, and hands to the door. Next is Sean. Nailing him takes less than

ever tell you that I collect trophies from my enemies?" I say as I remove his eyes. From Leo,

leaving," I say after I make sure Sean memoriezed my message to

a bag in

Blood Lodge. The Elders will