Shackled (The Lord Series) by Carlos

Hannah opens the door to the bedroom. For a moment, I fear her killing Malaky will ruin my plan of making the two senators kill each other and everything will go to hell, but I've never seen Hannah so calm before. It's the creepiest thing I

have ever seen.

Moments later, Malaky starts to scream.

"What do you think she's doing to him?" Ansel asks.

I shrug. "The saw she found outside was pretty rusty."

Rueben takes a sip of his beer. "Now she pretends to care?"

Khloe sighs before saying, "When Hannah was in college, she was forced to see how her best friend was assaulted, beaten, and killed. She never got over it. I think that showing her what Olivia had to endure triggered her. She might even have a PTDS episode."

Malaky's screams grow even louder.

Interesting.

Maybe I can use Hannah's manic episode to my advantage.

It takes a long time for the screams to die down.novelbin

Only then do I check on what Hannah did to Malaky. I slowly open the door, not wanting to alert her of my presence. There's blood everywhere. Alekos is going to kill me if I don't get this place clean before we leave.

Hannah has her back to me, watching out the window.

As for Malaky...

Most of his skin was removed, his dick and balls cut off and shoved in his mouth. A hole was made into his stomach, his intestines pulled out through it and wrapped around him and the chair.

I would have done much worse.

Without looking at me, Hannah says, "Let me know when my husband gets here." "Yes, ma'am."

***

"Are you going to let that bitch steal our chance to avenge Olivia?" Rueben snarls. Jon clears his throat, but Rueben is unapologetic. "What? I'm only telling the truth! Hannah knew about what truly happened when Olivia accidentally killed Camila, and she chose to back up her husband! If she would have told my parents the truth, Olivia would have never suffered years of abuse! She would have never been led to believe her son was dead! Do you have any idea how much she suffered? How many nights did she spend crying for Spencer? And for what?"

"Olivia has a son?"

Hannah's question makes all of us turn our heads in her direction. She's standing in the doorframe, covered in blood, the saw in her hand. Her gaze looks lost.

While I don't want Hannah to learn of Spencer, I'm tired of secrets.

"Yes. It's my son. And because of your husband, I lost the first five years of his life."

"Wesley knew about Spencer?" Hannah wants to know next.

"Not only him. Jason also," Jon replied. "But from my understanding, you too knew of Spencer."

Hannah denies it with her head. "The only thing I knew was that Olivia ran away to Europe after she killed Camila. But I now know that's not true. Is there something else I need to know?"

"You should clean yourself before Wesley gets here," Khloe says.

Hannah looks at her hands. "Oh, there's some blood on my hands."

"The bathroom is this way," Ansel says.

***

Not wanting to alert Senator Ross or Senator Deymar of our presence, Jasper and Rueben hid the van-Dimitri let us keep it until we finish-and Jon's car while Jasper and I eliminated any traces of us being at the cabin. Except for Hannah, who remained in the cabin, together with Malaky's body, the rest of us kept an eye on the surroundings from nearby.

The first one to get to the cabin is Senator Deymar. He really must trust Hannah if he came alone here.

Jasper and I leave our hiding spot and quickly make our way to the cabin and glance inside through the back window that gives to the room where is Malaky's body.

Hannah and her husband are in there.

The senator grabs Hannah's shoulder and violently shocks her. "What do you mean he attacked you, and you killed him in self-defense? What were you doing here in the first place?"

Hannah looks frightened. If I hadn't seen what she did to Malaky, I would have believed she was truly afraid.

"He sent me a video of Olivia, claiming he had her and that if I want to see her again, I'd better come here. So I did."

The Senator slaps her. "How many times do I have to tell you that she's gone!?"

"I know, but I thought that she returned."

"How can you be so stupid?" the senator snarls.

Olivia is not the only reason why Hannah wants to kill her husband. From the looks of it, he has been abusive towards her, probably for years.

The two of them argue for a while until the Senator grabs her by the arm and drags her out of the room.

"We are going home! But before that, we need to burn this place to the ground!" the Senator yells.

Jasper and I move along the cabin. I don't trust Hannah to not do something stupid.

Hannah and the senator leave the cabin. They keep fighting. It doesn't take long for Hannah to mention Senator Deymar about Olivia.

"You sold her!" Hannah accuses her husband.

"She was a slut before she was taken to the Celestial Heaven! She is just like your mother!" the senator snarls. He looks inside the cabin. "I'll send someone to clean the mess you did." He turns his back on her. "It's not like it's the first time this happens."

Hannah opens her bag and pulls out a small revolver. Her hand trembles as she pulls the trigger. The bullet hits the senator between the shoulders. Hannah drops the revolver.

I should have guessed she didn't have the courage to kill him.

Slowly, the senator turns around.

"Did you just shoot me?" he asks in a bewildered tone. His hand goes to his gun. "You should have aimed for my head if you wanted to really kill me." Hannah takes a step back.

Another shot pierces the air.

This time, the senator falls to the ground, blood coming out from the gaping wound in his neck.

"That's how you kill someone," Rueben sneers at Hannah.

Then he proceeds to empty his gun into the senator's face.

**Hi all! I am finally at the end of this book. This has been a journey and I am so happy Olivia is about to get her HEA.**