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.

sighed. “They really are using you as bait. I would rather get out of here before that happens, but I also want

it’s Armando, I want to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that he deserves to

Ivan laugh quietly again. “Misha was right, you know. You’re so much like us now that it’s

too. “He told you about that, huh?”

the really big stuff like my past,

many secrets with him

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, laughing.

you heard about him when he gets pushed too far?” Ivan asked.

pushed too

your go ddamn prince. The bloodlust is almost as bad

your go ddamn prince in here and nobody would walk out of

with us.”

enjoy seeing

to pee, after what I assumed to be a few hours of sitting in this

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

me use the bathroom, then they’ll be more likely to let you use it too. Can you lift a knife off one of

You can too, princess. Use a distraction, like tripping and bumping into them to grab what you

to lift something off of one of them, worried about what would happen to me or Ivan if

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. He kept a tight hold of my arm the entire way to the bathroom. There was no

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