King of the Underworld by RJ Kane

Chapter One Hundred Ninety

Adrik

I watched Sephie’s reaction at Stephen’s solution to the Mike problem. She thought for a minute, clearly unsure about it.

“I don’t know how I feel about this,” I said. “It’s one thing for you guys to spar with her. I know you guys won’t hurt her. I don’t know that I can say the same for Mike. If he hurts her, he’s a dead man.”

She leaned into me, smiling sweetly at me. She had that spark in her eyes that only I could see. I felt my heart jump in my chest as I looked at her.

“Mike doesn’t have the same training as Sephie does now,” Viktor said. “This could actually work out really well. I was going to have them start training with us starting Monday anyway.”

“Sephie can be his first test. I heard him trying to convince you that he didn’t need any training. Tell him if he can best her, then he can skip it,” Ivan said, a sly smile stretched across his face.

“But what if he really can best me?” Sephie asked.

Misha and Andrei looked at each other, laughing loudly. “Gazelle, you don’t need to worry about him besting you. We need to worry about being able to pull you off him, so you don’t seriously injure him.”

“But he’s not you and Bubba. He’s not going to know what to say to pi ss me off. I don’t know how to just summon the anger,” she said. She still had a worried look on her face.

“That’s what we’re for,” Andrei said. “We’ll get you to see red and throw you in there with him.”

Stephen had been quietly contemplating this plan, as he was want to do. He looked at Sephie, “from the impression I got from talking to Keith, Mike is more talk than anything. He likely did well on the force in the small town, but it’s not saying much when you’re King Turd on a pile of shi t.”

face from now on, so thank you

mass as quickly as you

said. “If Keith is right and Mike never really took his training seriously, it’s going to be painfully obvious very quickly. And something tells me that

more than we’re able to.”

definitely needs to make it to the wh ite board. Both for how long it takes her to take him down and for how

“This only happens If you’re okay with it and want to do it. I have zero doubts that you’ll be able to handle him. He does strike me as more bark than bite, but we don’t know that

in her eyes. She then looked at each of the guys. “You’ll all be there?” Everyone nodded. She looked down, her hands fidgeting in her lap. She took a

were trained by the best and they trained her. I’d seen what she could

five of the guys to pull me off Mike and Ivan still only had the use of

couldn’t help but smile at the guys’ reactions to her agreeing to this. The more I thought about it, the more I thought it could be good for her. She was holding back, but only because she didn’t believe in her abilities 100%. Facing someone she knew nothing about could be

until after noon, to give him time to recover from his night of partying that ! assumed happened. When he answered his phone, he sounded like he had

said, the sleep still evident in his

going to want to hear,” I said. I filled him in on what we’d found out about Dario. and Massimo, as well as what Salvadori, Anthony,

him move the phone away from his face, cursing loudly. He gained control, but he was still

fact. Mando didn’t even know that, nor did his guys, or Sal’s guy

her, I’m going to steal her, Jefe. I respect you, but I’m telling you right now, I will risk

might actually like to see you try,

Jefe. I’m a sensitive man,” he said, still

have New Year’s fireworks early. How much longer do you think you can keep Anthony and

and Massimo are down here. I’ve kept them separate from each other. I can let that slip and watch them fight

can find. Draw it out as long as possible. He’s truly a slek fu ck, Trino. He killed Dario’s parents when he was just 12 years old. Then he