Shackled (The Lord Series) by Carlos
229. Tyson - Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe II

I don't get worried, not when we have a generator and it should kick on any moment now. Plus a fire is burning in the fireplace.

Mose and Jasper walk into the living room.

"What are you doing here?" Mose asks Alma.

"Came to help you pay the electricity bill."

The generator doesn't kick in.

A figure passes by the window.

The hairs on the back of my neck stand up. My hand goes to my holster. "Something is wrong."

The front door is kicked open and several smoke bombs are thrown inside. Some of the smoke enter my lungs, leaving me and my demon weak as fuck.

"Cover your faces!" Rueben yells as we quickly rush to take cover.

I hold my breath while I take out my gun before pulling my t-shirt over my mouth and nose. My eyes start to water.

Around ten men wearing gas masks enter the house.

"Drop your guns!" someone yells.

I aim at the intruders but my vision turns blurry, even so, I still shoot one of these motherfuckers in the face, blowing up part of his jaw. The bullets I use are modified to cause maximum damage to someone. Thank fuck Olivia is not home. But where the fuck are Levi and the others? My lungs burn with the need to breathe.

More gas bombs are thrown into the middle of the living room. I manage to get out in the hallway but freeze when I hear, "If you don't want the woman to die, you do as I say." Don't fucking tell me....

After I take a deep breath of clean air, I get back inside the living room. My blood-brothers are aiming at a man as tall as Jasper holding Alma by her neck, a gun at her temple. Shit.

We might not like Alma, but we are not about to let some asshole kill her.

"Put your hands in the air!"

Alma tries to bite the man's hand but he hits her in the head with the back of his gun knocking her out cold.

"Don't kill her!" Mose says.

One by one, my blood-brothers and I throw our guns on the floor. The men jump on us, we are too weak from the gas to fight back. We are tied up and dragged out in the snow, all the way to the pasture, until we come face to face with Senator Deymar. And Rin and the others. Just like us, they are tied up and look dazed. Gags are in their mouths, preventing them from speaking.

Behind the Senator are three cars with their lights turned on. Senator Deymar's men force us to kneel in the snow, our hands tied behind our backs.

How the fuck did they get on the property and outsmart Rin? He is like a fucking legend at the Blood Lodge. He is never taken by surprise, his demon has a special ability to sense enemies. But even legends go down, I suppose. Senator Deymar is dressed in an expensive suit and looks at me and the rest like we are filth that splattered on his clothes.

"What do you want?" Rueben asks.

We need to bide our time until the effect of the smoke passes.

"What do I want?" the Senator wonders. His men remove the gas masks from their faces. Jason and his friends are among them. Only the guy who has Alma flung over his shoulder keeps his mask on. The Senator paces in front of us a few times before stopping in front of Mose. "My daughter."

Fuck!

We should have killed Jason when we had the chance. Then he would not have gone running back to Daddy and told him where Olivia was.

"She is not here," I calmly say. If Ansel returns right now with Olivia, we are fucked. "You can search the house."

Senator Deymar takes a few steps until he stands in front of me. "And you are?" After a moment of studying my face, he says, "Ah, the Carr bastard."

I glance at Rueben. Turquoise eyes look at me. The same color as mine. And as those of Camila. And our father. A family trait. This is how my dad recognized me the day I knocked on his door and declared I was his son. Bastard. Behind him, his wife, Francesca, fainted. He had no idea I even existed. He met my mother in a bar when he was passing through her town, soon after he separated from his wife and they went through a divorce. Things were so bad between them that they even had an Elder break their bond.

My mother got my dad so drunk he could barely walk, took him to a nearby hotel, did the deed, stole his wallet, leaving him passed out. The next day, left without a choice, my dad called his ex-wife, and she went looking for him. They got back together soon after, especially since they had a baby together-Rueben. And they lived happily ever after, until another altercation with one of my mom's many boyfriends; I grabbed my father's wallet from her room-she kept it to remind me that I was just a drunken mistake, and she took my dad's belongings to sell in case she got pregnant because they used no protection, but no one wanted an old wallet so I guess she had no money to get rid of me, so here I am- and somehow I found my way to my dad's place.

After the initial shock, my step-mom, who has treated me better than my own mom, took me in, even when my dad said no. *Because he is a mistake, Francesca. A drunken mistake. I don't even remember being with his mom.*