Shackled (The Lord Series)

Chapter 121

Shackled (The Lord Series)

121. Experiment 514

The woman on my right shoulder thrashes, wanting to escape me, making me even angrier with her

and my angel because I don’t understand his obsession with her.

The skirt she is wearing is short, her thighs exposed to the cold December winter, and I slap them hard,

causing her as much pain as I can, her screams being muffled by the gag in her mouth and the sack

covering her face.

“Stay still,” I growl.

Laughter and loud music come from the house in front of me, and for a moment, I question myself why

I came here. Probably hoping my family is looking for me, but here they are, having a good time during

Christmas.

What dia

did I expect, for them to put all their lives on hold just because Azael faked my death?

I touch the left side of my torso, the bandages soaked with blood. The only reason I am here is

because I found someone who could remove the tracker from my spine without killing me, and now

Azael can no longer find me. But I had to give up my left kidney. A small price to pay to be with my

family again. And now that I am here, in front of the house I grew up in, I can’t even knock on the door.

What will my family even think of me? Will they recognize me? And if yes, will they welcome me or

shun me?

No, I should turn around and find a place where I can figure out why my angel wants this woman. My

demon doesn’t like her, and to be honest, neither do L.

The music stops.

I turn around and start walking away when the front door opens. My heart beats faster. “What do you

want?” a man asks me.

Cirro.

He must have seen me through the window.

“I have mistaken this house for another,” I reply.

“I know that voice. Turn around,” Cirro demands.

It is dark outside, and being certain he won’t recognize me, I do as he asks.

He turns on the light from the porch. “Good God! You are alive. Rin! Rin!”

And then my cousins in the doorframe. Even if fifty feet separates us, I can see his eyes shining with

unshed

tears. Levi is behind him.

“Yan,” his voice trembles as he says my name.

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I have been 514 for so long that I almost forgot my name. That’s why I told it to 713. But now she is

dead, and I won’t

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rest until 919 and Azael pay for taking her away from me.

Rin runs to me, and I throw the woman to the ground and give my cousin a bear hug. He is the only

one who can touch me without making me want to kill him.

“I never thought I would see you again,” my voice cracks.

“I looked for you everywhere until I convinced myself that you were indeed dead. When Stefan told me

he saw you in a facility, I didn’t believe it.” He takes a step back and looks at me. “You look like shit.

And why is 514 tattooed on your face? Were you an experiment as well?”

How does he know about the experiments? I thought Azael kept it a secret.

“Yeah.” There is no reason to lie about it.

“Explains why you turned out to be so ugly.”

For the first time since Azael kidnapped me, I laugh. “I missed you too.”

The woman tries to get up, but her hands and legs are tied together. Rin looks at her. “Who is this?”

“Let’s take her inside, and I’ll tell you everything.”

He helps me carry her inside the house, and we put her on the sofa in the living room.

Cirro and Levi, who I assume became Rin’s blood–brothers, follow us, curious about the woman. And

about my story as well..

I remove the sack from her face. Tears run down her cheeks, her terrified blue eyes looking at us.

“This is 666, and my angel is obsessed with her.”

“Shit! It’s Emily,” Cirro says.

1 study 666. So Emily is her name.

“Alekos will thank you for finding her for him,” Rin chuckles.

The idea of another man touching her makes my angel angry.

“Wait? Did you say angel? Are you a Duke then?” Levi asks, his disgust visible.

“I am something else, as I have a demon as well. And no one touches her until I figure out what my

angel wants from her.”

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The Elders having an urgent meeting right on the day we are supposed to take Angel on our

honeymoon irks me to no

end.

Whatever the urgency is, there are many blood–brothers to call.

“We are supposed to be free of duty for an entire month,” I complain as I drink my brandy.

Reuben, sitting near my blood–brothers and me, smirks. “I thought newlyweds were always on duty.”

“That’s just the point,” I groan in frustration wishing I didn’t have to leave bed so early in the morning

and kept snuggling with Angel. “What happened to your face?”

Reuben touches the three scratches on his left cheek. “My Christmas gift got a little out of hand.”

“A new horse?” I try to guess as I try not to think of one of the gifts Angel gave us because I will sport a

hard–on until I return home. To her.

My wife.

Fuck.

I love how that sounds.

We got spinning rings as wedding bands. I start fidgeting with mine. My body and soul being fused

completely to my demon gives me some anxiety, as 1 am still getting used to the new me. Some

blood–brothers are slowly overpowered by their demons after the Piercing Ceremony until they take

complete control of the human men, but Angel being a hellstar, balanced us in a way I didn’t think was

possible.

Beneath the tattoo that covers my torso, the two words written by the demons living in the Catacombs

seem to burn..

I am unworthy of Angel, neither me nor Reyes or Alekos deserve to have her as our Lady. We know it,

but saying it out loud is another thing entirely, as we don’t want her to realize how undeserving of

having a hellstar we are. The only thing we can keep doing is to love her in our sick and toxic way. It is

the only thing we know how to do right.

“A bitch,” Rueben says. He slaps Tyson’s back. “He and Jasper bought her for the farm. She needs a

lot of training but she is of a good breed. Hell, she might even give birth to strong pups. But not until

she is clean and does what we tell her to do.”

I am not sure if he is talking about a dog or a woman. Reuben is even more deranged than Reyes. His

sister’s death. hit him hard.

Elder Calum clears his throat, catching everyone’s attention.

“Not long ago Brother Alekos gave me a pen drive and told me it contains crucial information about the

D other things. I had Brother Cirro analyze it, and after reading report after report and watching

hundreds of videos, he and I came to the same conclusion. The Dukes are preparing something that

will change the wor

know it.”

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“What do you mean, Elder?” one of the blood–brothers present asks.

“I am going to show you,” Elder Calum replies. “Yan, you may reveal your face.”

My gaze goes to Rin and his blood–brothers. A fourth person has been sitting between Rin and Levi,

his face hidden by the hood of his sweatshirt.

Yan.

I should have guessed it by now, but my head is filled with thoughts of Angel and how to keep her safe

from any harm, especially since Carlos is still out there. Just thinking that he will come after her fills me

with a rage I have never felt before and a growl leaves me.

Reyes squeezes my left shoulder. “I know how you feel.”

Yan pulls back his hood. “I don’t know how many remember me, but I am Rin’s cousin who went

missing….” He pauses for a moment. “Several years ago. I was locked up in a medical facility and all

manner of experiments were performed

on me.

“With what purpose?” Elder Janoah wants to know.

Yan traces the tattoo on his face. “For a long time, I asked myself the same thing over and over again Original from NôvelDrama.Org.

until I felt I was going insane. After I escaped, I spent many weeks observing the Dukes and I think I

know what Azael is trying to do. He is making an army to attack the Garden of Eden.”

Everyone starts talking at the same time and it takes the Elders a few tries before they have our full

attention once

more.

“Azael?” Reuben asks.

“The Betrayer,” Yan confirms any suspicion.

Azael. The one who betrayed Lucifer. He has been on Earth for a long time, his identity always hidden,

but for him to say his actual name…whatever he is plotting, it must be big.

“Before my mother died she told me that if we find Azael, we will find Carlos,” Reyes suddenly says.

“What now?” Alekos asks.

Elder Calum looks at us. “We stop the Dukes before they set their plan in motion.”

“How?” I want to know.

“The leader of the Sisterhood contacted me. She is willing to help us,” Elder Calum informs us.

“In exchange for what?” Reuben asks.

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Hours later we are in a private airplane, flying to Bora Bora. We kept our destination a secret from

Angel, wanting to.

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surprise her, knowing how much she loved it the first time we’d been there. We rented a bungalow

close to the beach. where we proposed to her, and for the next two weeks, we will turn off our phones,

and try to relax and enjoy our time together.

Angel gets up to go to the bathroom.

“We need to protect her at all costs. What Yan and Wasp told us worries me,” Reyes says.

Alekos runs his thumb over his bottom lip. “We will hire guards and one of us will have to be with her all

the time.”

“Where can Carlos be hiding?” I wonder.

“If he is working for Azael, it can be anywhere. Even if it takes me years, I will find him and kill him,”

Reyes says.

Angel returns and we fall silent.

“Can I know now where we are going?” She tries to make us speak.

“You have to be patient,” Alekos tickles her.

She shricks and laughs at the same time. “Stop!”

1 pull her into my lap. “You will see in a few hours.”

Angel huffs and puffs for a few minutes before she falls asleep, her head leaning on my shoulder.

Reyes covers her with

a blanket and we talk in low voices about all the security we will install in our new home.

I put my hand on her belly and I feel our child moving beneath my palm. She told us she felt the baby

moving during

our Piercing Ceremony.

“The baby,” I gasp.

“Is something wrong?” Alekos starts to panic.

“She is moving.” We still think the baby will be a girl.

Reyes

and Alekos put their hands next to mine, and we keep them there until the baby stops moving, tears in

our eyes.

“War is coming whether we want it or not, but until then, we should keep Angel in the dark,” Alekos

says. Reyes and I agree. “Let her enjoy her pregnancy and our baby while she can.”

Before we land we wake up Angel, wanting to see her reaction when she realizes we are in Bora Bora.

As expected, she cries with joy.

“This is perfect,” she says as we walk barefoot on the beach where we asked her to marry us.

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The man in front of me has a pair of white wings, but they are twisted at a strange angle as if someone

tried to rip

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them out of his back.

“Who are you?” I ask him.

“Your creator. You will go out in the world and conquer it for me.”