King of the Underworld by RJ Kane

Chapter 147

Chapter One Hundred Forty-Seven
Adrik
Sometime in the middle of the night, Misha came into the bedroom. Sephie was asleep, across my chest as usual. Misha urgently shook me to wake me. “Boss, wake up. We need Sephie.” I moved to sit up, which woke Sephie up.
“What’s going on?” she asked, still half asleep.
“Sephie, we need you. Ivan…” he didn’t even finish, and she was out of the bed, on her way to the door. She didn’t even stop to put pants on. Good thing my shirts are so big on her. I got up to follow them.
She ran to Ivan’s room. Ivan was struggling, with Viktor and Stephen trying to hold him down. He clearly wasn’t completely with it, or he would’ve known he was fighting Viktor and Stephen and not the demons of his past.
Sephie didn’t hesitate. She ran to him, getting in between Viktor and Ivan. She placed both her hands on his chest, pushing him down. “Ivan, I’m here. You’re fine, Squishy.” As soon as he heard her voice and felt her touch, he collapsed on the bed. She leaned over to his ear, whispering to him. He sighed and we all watched his body relax.
Viktor looked at me. “See, Boss. Never seen anything like it. We all know how difficult it is to break him out of his bwn head when he’s like this. She does it instantly.”
She looked over her shoulder at him, smiling at him, but still talking in Ivan’s car. She kept one hand on Ivan and reached over to the table next to his bed. She picked up Misha’s phone, holding it in the air for him to take. “I drained your battery, Misha. I’m sorry.”
He took his phone from her. “It’s okay, gazelle. That must’ve been what started this. He was quiet until just a few minutes ago and we all heard him yell. Viktor and I rushed to check on him and Stephen heard us trying to keep him from hurting his arm again.”
“Andrei’s still asleep, then?” she asked.

“Yeah, pain meds knock him completely out. He’s dead to the world when he takes those things,” Misha said.
“Good,” she said. She still had her hand on Ivan’s chest as she talked to Misha. Ivan was clearly asleep still, but he reached up and grabbed her hand, holding it in his. She smiled, turning back to him, whispering something to him. He took in a deep breath, his body completely relaxed. She looked back to all of us. “You can go back to sleep now. He’s fine,” she said to everyone. She looked at Misha, “thank you for coming to get me.”
“You’re the only one that can calm him,” he said. “We would still be fighting him. He’s gone for hours like that before.”
She had a pained look on her face. “It’s not my story to tell, but he has good reason to act this way.”
Misha leaned over and kissed the top of her head. “We’re just glad you can save him, gazelle.” He walked out of the room. Viktor walked over and kissed the top of her head as well. “Thank you, Sephle,” he said as he left the room. Stephen had quietly alipped out as well.
I walked to her, not sure of what to do now, She looked at me, clearly not sure of what to do either. “I can’t leave him, or he’ll start struggling again.”
you would’ve put pants on before running down
Her eyes went wide. “Shi t.”
I laughed at her. “I’ll go get you pants. He never struggles with his demons for more than a few days after he has to go to the hospital. I can manage until he’s okay.”
She pulled on my arm so I would lean down to her. She pressed her lips to mine. “Thank you,” she said.
J eventually managed to fall back asleep without Sephie, but it took three times as long as normal. I could always fall asleep almost immediately when she was either next to me or laying across my chest. When I woke for the second time of the morning, she was curled up next to me, her body pressed to mine.
I rolled over, putting my arm over her. She rolled over to face me, a small smile on her face.
“When did you come back?” I asked, my hands running through her hair.
“Not that long ago. Ivan woke up on his own and kicked me out. He said he promised he wasn’t going to sleep again for a few hours, so that I could try to get some sleep. I tried to protest, but he might be more stubborn than me, so he won…this round,” she said, grinning at me.
“How was he when he woke up?” I asked, smiling back at her.
“Still troubled. I couldn’t keep him quiet for longer than a few minutes if I stopped talking to him. I haven’t figured out the right thing to say to him to break him completely out of it. I’m going to try to get more details about what he’s seeing, if he can even remember, later. I just have to find the right words to get him to relax for longer than a few minutes.” She looked tired. She also looked just as troubled as she just described Ivan as being.
“What time is it?” I asked, still playing with her curls.
“Not even 5 yet, I don’t think. He woke up a little after 4, like a complete psycho,” she laughed as she snuggled closer to me, putting her leg over the top of my legs. “What time do you have to get up today?”
I groaned quietly, pulling her hips closer to mine. “I have a few meetings this afternoon, but nothing this morning.”
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