King of the Underworld by RJ Kane

Chapter 399

399

Adrik

Sephie was right. Stephen did look lighter. He was always the quiet one. His brain never shu t off though. He was constantly analyzing everything and everyone around him. We finally saw him relax. Really, truly relax. He wasn’t on guard. He wasn’t waiting for something to happen. He was just present. And happy.

Vitaliy had remained at the restaurant with Battista while we left. When he got back to the penthouse, we were all still discussing what had happened, but the conversation was turning more light-hearted. The guys were telling Sephie how effective her demon eyes were to the normal person.

“I’m pretty impressed they didn’t pi ss themselves, spider monkey. Your eyes were as black as I’ve ever seen them. And you just sprung it on them. Your eyes were normal, then you looked down as you stood up and holy shi t, they were black, Andrei said, laughing.

“Not gonna lie, I’ve kind of missed them,” Ivan said.

Stephen snapped his fingers, pointing at Ivan. “Same.”

Vitaliy walked in with Aleksei. We could tell he was eager to ask more questions. Mostly, he wanted to know how she had such control over her eyes.

“I kind of don’t. I’ve been wearing contacts around you since I met you. My eyes have a mind of their own and change without me knowing sometimes. I got contacts so I wouldn’t scare you,” she said.

“Change to black on their own?” Vitaliy asked.

as black as they had been at the restaurant. I couldn’t help but laugh at Vitaliy’s shocked expression when he saw

and I watched the black fade into the background as the blue took over. I smiled at her, pointing back toward my father. She looked at him and I explained that blue meant she loved me. He

have that blue color, but where are the other two colors?” he

the other two and turned dark. Then the other two colors started taking over for different emotions. The only one that’s

amused, but also slightly perturbed. “He’ll do anything you need him to do from now on. He

them.”

worry. “How often is he

own right, but he occasionally runs into people he needs help with. That woman being one of them. He said

time.”

Why not the zoo?” Sephie

discussion, sladkaya. It’s not meant

as we didn’t know quite what i house instead of the restaurant, but Vitally assured us it would be fine. He still only brought Aleksel with him, just as he Stephen’s

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from meeting

before with

us Battista had gotten a phone call right before we arrived. He was finishing up and would be in shortly, We

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