Shackled (The Lord Series) by Carlos
265. Olivia - Escape II

More experiments move closer to Azael.

"She is the main doctor here." He hesitates before saying, "I know what she did to you. I was there when she...made sure you'll never have babies. She laughed when she put that crystal inside you." I glance at him. His eyes are fixed on the fight but I still have a clear view of his face. He looks like any asshole who forced me to do stuff, except this time, I made sure my message was loud and clear-don't touch me. "I was forced to help her with her work. She made my life a living hell." He shudders. "Kill her for me."

Now I remember from where I heard the name before.

*"Save him,"* I screamed at the female doctor who was paying more attention to her phone than to what was happening. *"Please,"* I begged. *"He is all I have left in this world."*

Some looks at me with pity. A young man. **919** is tattooed on his left cheek. *"The Bitch will never help you,"* he tells me.

I ignore him as I keep begging for hours. Until my throat is sore.

She finally looked up at me, a bored expression on her face. *"Your father wants him dead."* She stands. From the pocket of her scrubs she takes out a small crystal. *"Azael doesn't need to know about this."*

She likes to break people's mind and use them for her own purposes. She might work for Azael, but she likes to do stuff behind his back. He might already know and lets her do whatever she wants because in the end, he loves to see how creative she can get. Or at least that's what I think, because she is the who let...Spencer die in front of me.

I drag my eyes away from him. "I'll kill her for what she did to me. She left me barren even when I begged and cried. But before I do that, you are free to do whatever you want to her."

**429** thinks for a few seconds before saying, "Deal." Slowly, Azael gets surrounded by those he has altered for life. **429** grabs my arm. "We need to go now."

I try to yank myself free but he is stronger than I anticipated. "Not without Mose."

"He is creating the perfect opportunity for us to destroy this place." When I hesitate, **429** adds, "If we don't do this now, we might never get another chance."

I don't like this, not even a bit, so I say, "Fine, but we will return for Mose."

**429** doesn't say anything, but his nod is all the confirmation I need. Since Azael is surrounded by experiments, who are probably on the entire thing, slipping away unnoticed is not that hard.

The hallways are silent, and it doesn't take long to see why. Guards lay on the floor, their throats sliced open. No alarm?

"Is this a trap? Because I warn you-"

**429** cuts me short. "There's someone in the surveillance room making sure Azael won't realize what's happening until it's too late."

"You've been planning an escape for some while," I realize.

**429** confirms my suspicions right away. "Despite what Azael did to him, making it hard for him to get close to people, **919** has been my friend for some time. He is the one who came up with the idea of escaping some months ago when one of the female experiments was rescued." So, getting people out of here is possible. "Anyway, during that time, **919** was reunited with someone he met here years ago, and before he helped her escape, they were stopped by Azael. Later on, he was shown a video of how she was tortured by the Dukes." Is he talking about Angelica? What are the odds that **919** and Angelica know each other? "It was soon after that **919** approached me with a crazy plan to escape. He wants to get out of here and kill the one who tortured his friend."

"Carlos."

"How did you know that?"

I shrug. "Just a hunch. Why are you telling me all this?"

"Because **919** told me that I could trust you. And because I miss talking to people. The Bitch has me working in the laboratory all the time. And when I'm not there, I'm in her bed." He shudders again. Now I understand why he told me to kill the Bitch for him. "So, what's the plan? Because **919** didn't share anything with me."

"He couldn't. We are constantly watched. Any wrong step will lead to severe punishments. But he'll make sure we don't run into any trouble." No wonder **919** barely interacted with me. He was scared his plan would be exposed. Now I understand why he was so quick to agree to burning this place to the ground-he was already on it. This makes everything much easier. "Azael is not the only one who can make life hell around here. With the drugs she helped create, she induced as much pain as Azael did."

It's not news to know. Wanting to know more about the Bitch, I ask, "Can she make people forget things with her drugs?"

**429** peaks behind a corner of the hallway before saying, "About six years ago, three young Lords where brought in. The Bitch took great pleasure in breaking their minds. Apparently a powerful Duke was behind the entire thing. He wanted to punish his daughter for falling in love with them. The Duke asked the Bitch to drug these Lords and have them sleep with female experiments while making his daughter watch. After that, the Bitch used drugs to erase that from those Lords' memories."

My blood chills in my veins. He was drugged? All this time I hated him for nothing? Not for nothing, I remind mysel, but at least he is not guilty of breaking my heart and killing what was left of our love.

Ever since I was bitten into submission, I rarely feel fury or anger, but a wave of rage suddenly washes over me. "Did she do that to Mose as well?"

**429** throws me a glance. "No."

"Good." I try to calm down, but the more I think about everything, the more angrier I get. "Tell me the plan."

**429** leads me to a closet used for storing cleaning supplies on the first floor, where the medical laboratories are. He takes out a small box from it. "I made a bomb. From the moment I set it, we will have a few minutes to get out." Sounds simple, but rarely things turn out as planned. "Where will we put the bomb?"

"In the control room."

I don't get to say that it might be a bad idea since it might lead to the facility to lock down because the door to one of the medical laboratories open and a woman holding a pistol pointed at steps out. **429** freezes with fear.

"I heard you are still a bitch no matter so many years pass," I say.

The Bitch tilts her head to the side. "I remember you."

"Glad to see I made an impression."

Her eyes sparkle. "Putting a part of the Dybbuk Box inside you had the effect I expected."

Darkness spreads inside my body and I welcome it like an old friend. "Let me show you what exactly you did to me."

**So sorry for the delay but I have been working on something for Shackled. The next update for Bought will be in 2 days.**