King of the Underworld by RJ Kane

Chapter One Hundred Ninety-Five

Andrei

Having to deal with dead bodies on a semi-regular basis meant we had a cleaning crew on standby. Not your normal cleaning crew, either. They could come in and make a place look as if nothing happened in under half an hour. It was one of the most amazing sights I’d ever seen, to be honest. They erased all traces of Mike from the gym in record time.

While the cleaners worked, we all gathered on the other side of the gym. It helped that Viktor and Misha weren’t worried about Chris and Keith, but I still couldn’t help but worry. I didn’t want this to cause problems in the future, so I was glad Viktor wanted to talk to them right away.

My fears were put to rest almost immediately. Keith looked at Viktor, asking, “did you guys train her?” Viktor nodded. “And that’s how you want to train us?” he asked. Viktor nodded again. “Yeah, I’m all the way in for that. She’s unreal. But please don’t make me fight her. I already know. I need to start at the beginning.” His eyes were slightly wide, at the thought of going against Sephie.

Chris nodded his head in agreement. “Start me at the beginning too. I will happily admit that she can easily kick my a ss. I’ve never seen anything like that in my life. Where did you guys find her? Like, clearly that girl has been through some shi t, but holy he ll it’s just made her stronger. Is she immortal? Can she be killed? Because I don’t think she can be.” He looked up at all of us, looking at him seriously at the mention of her dying. “Oh shi t. I ramble when I’m nervous. It’s a real problem. Like I can’t stop talking sometimes and I say stu pid shi t out loud. Please don’t ki ll me. I didn’t mean anything by it.”

Ivan chuckled. “It’s a legitimate question, if you knew what she’s been through.”

“Our job is to make sure we never find an answer to that question,” I said. “Which also means your job is to make sure we never find an answer to that question. If there’s a problem with that, we need to know now.”

“Not in the slightest,” Keith said. “I’ve only seen a glimpse, but I’m starting to understand what you all see in her.”

“Nope, no problems here,” Chris said. He looked to Viktor, a curious look on his face. “What are we going to do about replacing that as shole though?”

haven’t decided yet. One of

but it’s painfully obvious to me now that my training is severely lacking comparatively. I would be fine with deferring to you guys for the time being until

me too. I realized today that I have major ho les in my training. But at least I

did warn him she was going to fu ck him up. People don’t listen,” Misha

about it. We’ll come up with a solution for Mando’s security,” Viktor said, “You guys are free to go. I know –Mando has meetings soon. He’s going to need you.”

nodded and left the gym. The rest of us stayed, needing to talk about what to do for Sephie. We stood in

moment.

at this point she won’t care that I told you guys. Sephie killed her uncle the night she got those scars. She had blocked it out until the night of the ball. When she was out on

that I had told Sephie her beast mode was activated that day she shot the guy in the face when they were trying to grab her. But then I said her beast mode has always been activated once he told me about her

progress, assuming she handles the day’s events well. “I have so many ideas on how to progress her training from here. Not even going to

in your excitement, we need to make sure she’s okay with what happened

what she needs to hear about this. How

her about my past. She said, ‘sometimes Karma uses you to deliver justice. You just handed down their sentences.’ I think the more she hears that Mike wasn’t walking out of here alive today, the more she’ll accept it. I also reminded her that what’s said

She said he was never going to let this go and that he’d spend the rest of his life trying to get to her or that he’d run straight to Sal and tell him everything he knew.

think that might be the case here, too. We all know how emotional she

shouldn’t feel anything about killing her uncle. Or Mike. They both had it coming,”