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 you can

now that my training is severely lacking comparatively. I would be fine with deferring to

that I have major ho les in my training. But at

him up. People don’t listen,” Misha said,

up with a solution for Mando’s security,” Viktor said, “You guys are free to go. I know

stayed, needing to talk about what to do for Sephie. We stood in silence for a

moment.

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 the plane, she relived that night. All of it. The beating, the whip,

she picked her leg up out of his reach and stomped the knife further into his heart.” He paused to look at our faces, Ivan enjoyed shocking us, so he wanted to drink this in for a moment. “I told Adrik that I had told Sephie her beast mode was activated that day she shot the guy in the face

have so many ideas on how to progress her training from here. Not even going to pretend I’m not excited

“while I share in your excitement, we need to make sure she’s okay with what happened today too. It could set

to hear about this. How

than you guys think. When I said that she just delivered his sentence? She said that to me when I told 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 in

Mike was done, but he was going to let him live. Sephie disagreed. 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

about killing her uncle. I think that might be the case here, too. We all know how emotional she can get when something is really

killing her uncle. Or Mike. They both had it