King of the Underworld by RJ Kane

Chapter Two Hundred Seventy-Six

Sephie

“Princess, careful. I don’t know what you’re saying, but I know you’re verbally owning them right now,” Ivan said to me in Russian. He said it quietly, so the two guys barely heard him.

Ivan was right. I was supposed to be making them think they had the upper hand with me, so I tried to show restraint.

“You never answered his question. What do you want with us?” I asked in Italian.

“We’re just following orders. Our boss is very interested in you and the men you keep company with,” one of them said.

“Who’s your boss?” I asked.

“Patience, dear. You’ll find out soon enough.” With that, they both got up and walked out of the room, closing the door behind them.

Ivan looked at me, waiting for me to tell him what had just been said. Before I could tell him, he said, “your Italian is better when you’re angry.” His wide smile spread across his face.

I laughed. “You didn’t understand what they were talking about when they grabbed us. They were trying to decide if they had enough time to pull over and take turns raping me. They decided against it because they would’ve had to ki ll you and they couldn’t come up with a reason to cover. I told them when we get out of here, I would enjoy sending them to meet their dead friends.” I glanced at Ivan, his anger visible on his face where not two seconds ago, his smile had been. “I asked them again. what they wanted with us. They said they were following orders and whoever they’re working for is very interested in the men I keep company with. It’s gotta be Sal or Armando.”

“Agreed. It could be both of them, for all we know.”

“That wouldn’t surprise me either. They said we’ll find out soon enough,” I said.

rather get out of here before that happens, but I also want to see who is behind this. If we leave

for the big reveal. If it’s Armando, I want to know beyond

know. You’re so much like us

this time, too. “He told you

Stephen and the really big stuff like my past, there aren’t many secrets among

many secrets with him either.”

I used to think he was a serial killer and I was still strangely fine with that possibility. Now that I know he’s just a vampire, it all makes sense,” I said,

that and we were all hine with it. Have you heard

pushed too far? Really?”

similar to your go ddamn prince. The bloodlust is almost as bad in Stephen. I’ve only seen

just send him and your go ddamn prince in here and nobody would walk out of here alive. Doesn’t matter how many people are in this building

with us.”

enjoy seeing that,” I

time. I needed to pee, after what I assumed to be a few

the elevator is. Look for things that can be used as weapons and distractions. Like fire extinguishers and paper towel dispensers

let you use it too. Can you lift a

like tripping

about trying to lift something off of one of them, worried about what would happen to me

back into the room. I told them that I needed to pee. They both walked to the chairs we were tied to. One of them pulled a gun and pointed it at Ivan. “You try anything and he dies,” he said, flatly. The other guy cut my restraints and pulled me out of the chair.

of everything in the bathroom that we could possibly use to our advantage. I heard a beep in my ear. My earpiece. They missed it when they searched me. I pulled it out of my ear. I had no clue how it worked, but there was a blue light blinking on it. Normally, there was a blue light that remained on when they would hand it to me. It was never blinking. I looked it over, pressing the only button on it, just to see what would happen. It beeped quietly three times in a row, then went silent, but the blue light was still blinking. No idea what that means. I put it back in my ear,