King of the Underworld by RJ Kane

Adrik

I woke sometime in the middle of the night. Sephie was laying across my chest. She’d tried her best to wear me out before we finally went to sleep, but my brain just didn’t want to stop. I don’t know why I was so surprised that my father was so different with Sephie. I’d never seen him act the way he did around her. It was a welcome change.

My father had always been a cold man. He made sure I had everything I petded, but there was never any warmth between us. As I was growing up, I eventually came to realize that I was a reminder of my mother for him. I think it caused him pain to see me and have to constantly remember that he’d lost her. Now that I have Sephie, I can understand the pain he was in. If my mother was even half of what Sephie is for me, I’m impressed my father didn’t lose his sanity when she died.

I inhaled deeply, lost in my thoughts. I felt Sephie snuggle into me more, effectively breaking me out of my head for a moment. I watched her sleeping peacefully on my chest, her fingers playing their song on my heart.

She’d been able to hide her eyes from everyone but Ivan so far, although I suspected that Andrei had at least a small clue that something had changed. It was only a matter of time before the others picked up on the fact that her demon eyes hadn’t made an appearance in a while. I was fairly sure they’d already noticed. They just weren’t saying anything yet. I knew we were eventually going to have to tell them, but I was enjoying having this secret with her for a little longer. I also didn’t want her to have to wear the contacts anymore than she absolutely had to, since they seemed to make her eyes itch after wearing them for long periods.

I felt her stir and she picked her head up off my chest, resting her chin on me so she could look at me. She smiled sweetly at me. The moonlight coming in through the window made her porcelain skin look almost like it was glowing. “Wanna tell me about it?” she asked. Of course she knew I was lost in my head.

I smiled back at her, my hand lightly running over the features of her face. She closed her eyes, still smiling at me, enjoying my touch. “I didn’t mean to wake you,” I said quietly.

“I could feel you,” she said. “You’re all over the place.”

I laughed. “Accurate.”

her. Even though my mind was everywhere all at once, seeing her climb on top of

my mind immediately went. She just picked my hands up and placed them on her breasts. “Nobody likes cold boobies.

everything I was thinking about,” I said, squeezing her breasts as she

at me, a puzzled look on her face.

I didn’t want to deny her, but I also didn’t think she’d want to have this conversation right now. I knew she was going to chastise me for it, too. She did close her eyes as she leaned into my hand. My thumb rubbing lightly against

face. She sighed, then said, “you have a better understanding of why your father is the way he is now that you have me.”

at hiding things.” She smiled sweetly at me, her fingers reaching out to run lightly aver my face through my stubble. She thought for a few minutes, then sighed. “I think everything was supposed to happen the way it did. You would’ve kept sending me away to try and protect me, thinking that you brought this danger to me if Armando and Sal hadn’t grabbed me and

wanted it to be so. When I walked to you to put my jacket around you, I could see how much you. craved my anger at that moment. I could also see how much you loved me, despite my demon being fully on display. I’d always tried to keep that part of me away from you, worried that it would

of it. And I still love you. All of you. Forever and always. So when you’re worried that you’re a monster and you can’t see that even your demon has a good purpose or find any of your own love to give that side of you, you can borrow some of my love. I’ve got plenty. With your name on it.” She grinned at me. I could feel the warmth spread through my body that meant she

blue as well.

on very strongly. I knew that my gentle kisses made her melt every single time. She surprised me by grabbing my co ck and positioning me against her

of it. She angled her hips so she could take every bit of me. She exhaled, arching her back as I felt her pu ssy squeeze around me.