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.”

to his face from now on, so thank you for that. And two, he’s still a

brute force, sure. But it’s harder to move that much mass as quickly as you can move your lighter, smaller body. And when

like you did Misha on the beach, Mike won’t know what hit him. That’s the best I’ve seen you look, princess,” Ivan 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 you don’t need to worry about being able to summon your anger with him. I don’t even think you’ll need

than we’re able to.”

“I feel like this definitely needs to make it to the wh ite board. Both for how long it takes her to take him down and for how long it takes him to say something that

and want to do it. I have zero doubts that you’ll be able to handle him. He does

in her eyes. She then looked at each of the guys. “You’ll

but laugh. I knew Sephie would be able to handle herself. My guys were trained by the best and they trained her. I’d seen

off Mike and Ivan still only had the use of one arm. The odds were

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 a major confidence

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

the sleep still evident in his voice.

I have more information that you’re 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, and Lorenzo had been planning. When I got to the part about them

the phone. I could hear him move the phone away from his face, cursing loudly. He gained control, but he was still cursing in Spanish as he said, “do those pendejos not know that I supply the Mexican cartels? I do.

that informed everyone else of that fact. Mando didn’t even know that, nor did his

Jefe. I respect you, but I’m telling you right now, I will risk it all

actually like to see you try,

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

Year’s fireworks early. How much longer do you think you can keep Anthony and Lorenzo down there?” I

helping you out. I’m enjoying toying with them. It might be concerning how much I’m enjoying toying with them. They still don’t know that Dario and Massimo are down here. I’ve kept them separate from each other. I can let that slip and watch them fight each other for at least two weeks. It’ll give Massimo hope that I’m going to let him live. Makes it that much

as possible. He’s truly a slek fu ck, Trino. He