King of the Underworld by RJ Kane

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*Adrik*

Once we had finished laughing, I looked at Vitaliy. “Your new guys. What do you think of them?”

He scoffed. “Mediocre at best. It was difficult to replace Yuri and Dmitri. Those two were the best we could find, which is not saying much,” he said.

“They’ve been very disrespectful to my men. I didn’t know about it until we had already left Panama. I’d like to teach them a lesson tomorrow,” I said.

Vitaliy simply nodded his head. “I would very much like you to teach them a lesson tomorrow. They’re too soft. Sladkaya could beat them, even though she’s still not 100% right now.”

“That’s because I have the best trainer ever,” she said, smiling at Andrei.

“From what I saw the other day, I will not argue with you,” Vitaliy said. “You have my permission to do whatever you need with the little flowers.”

I chuckled at both him and Aleksei calling his guys little flowers. I looked at Andrei and Misha. “You’ll get your chance in the morning, then. Don’t hold back,” I said.

I knew it was earlier than usual, as it was still mostly dark outside. She had one arm and one leg thrown over me and her hand was lazily tracing circles on my

my eyes again and pulling her closer to me. Not wanting to wake up yet.

get my

and thigh, I reminded her, “you did the right thing, solnishko. He was never going to walk out of here that day. If

at me, I could see her eyes swirling. This time, however, there was wh ite mixed in, so I knew she was trying to hold off on feeling her fear. While I knew she was struggling

landing on the deepest depth of the ocean blue. “Sometimes I need a reminder,”

will remind you as often and as many times as you need it,

we came out of the bedroom. Apparently, they were having trouble sleeping too. Andrei was making coffee for

Papa Bear and Yoden?” Sephie asked as she walked to Ivan to hug him good morning.

us could sleep anymore, so we came up

“You’re more bothered by this than you’re letting on,” she said, kissing his cheek. “Even Squish is bothered by the fact that those two as sholes singled you two out.” Misha tried to laugh, but it was clear on his face that she was right. She thought for a minute, continuing on to Andrei, who handed her a fresh cup of coffee. “This is why I waited until I had the six of you to protect me to show anyone how different I was. As a general rule, people su ck.” She looked thoughtful for a moment,

her, but she shook her head no discreetly. She would tell us whatever it was in good time, She leaned her head onto Andrei’s shoulder, once

up, walking to me as I finished making my coffee. “You all know that something happened when I disappeared at Vitaliy’s house,” she said. She turned away from me, leaning back against me as she held her mug with both hands. I slid one arm around her waist, watching the guys’ faces. They all nodded. “It was a new one for me. It’s never happened before. It may never happen again, but I saw

see your father

as day to me. But it looked like I’d zoned out completely when Ivan and Adrik found me. They couldn’t snap me out of it. That’s also why I think I went numb to all of you. It was like I