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.

had one arm and one leg thrown over me and her hand was lazily tracing circles on my back. “Good morning,” she said quietly when she saw my eyes open just enough to notice it

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

seem to get my brain to shu t

would happen this morning. As I ran my hand over her back, down to her a ss and thigh, I reminded her, “you

minute, her hands never still as she thought about what I just said. She was looking down, but when she looked up at me, I could see her eyes swirling. This time,

on the deepest depth of the ocean blue. “Sometimes I need a reminder,” she said quietly. She reached

remind you as often and as many times as you need it, love.”

making coffee

Yoden?” Sephie asked as she walked to

said. “None of us could sleep anymore,

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

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

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 Adrik’s

see your father sometimes?”

me, plain as day to me. But it looked like I’d zoned out completely when Ivan and Adrik found me. They