King of the Underworld

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Sephle

The guys were all laughing as we walked into the kitchen. They all looked to me, like they knew I was about to make their morning even better. I was taken aback by their knowing glances.

“We can feel your f**kery, gazelle. I, for one, am very excited about this development in my life,” Misha said.

Adrik caught my eye, his mischievous grin slowly creeping atross his face. “Apparently, I’m not the only one,” he said, kissing my temple.

“Not the only one for what?” Ivan asked.

“He can feel all of you the same way I can now. He knew you guys were here before I did this morning. He can tell you the order you came up, even,” I said.

They all looked at Adrik skeptically, like they didn’t believe him.

“Ivan, Stephen, Andrei, Viktor, Misha,” he said.

“Okay, so new level unlocked,” Ivan said, laughing.

“We were

talking this morning. It feels like the connection is getting stronger each time we do something new,” Andrei said. “It used to only get stronger for Sephie, but now I think it’s getting stronger for all of us.”

up more each time. Not just with me anymore, either.

like our demons were quieter last night at the fundraiser than they were at the meeting with Battista. We can’t figure out why. There were more demons last night than at the meeting with Battista. It doesn’t make sense they’d be quiet

going to bring

have something to do with that girl that could see my mother and

“Bubba, did you by chance do any snooping with her? Do you know if she could see everything? Or is she more like you, in that she can only see the good?”

I saw her zero in on

Andrei said. He looked at Ivan. “You’re going to be shocked, man. I didn’t know how much you wanted Battista know, so I

of us. My dad had told me that Ivan’s wings were black, whi te, and red. Jessica could only see the whi te in his wings, but they looked different to her than what Kostya and Lena looked like. She saw the same difference when

in stunned silence for a few moments. Andrei and Misha worked together to push it to Viktor and Stephen at the

else’s.” It helped snap him back to reality as well. Adrik quietly slid his arm around

the same way, but they look different than you guys,” Andrei said. He pushed us the images of both Lena and Kostya that she had seen. “She

ghost angle makes sense, since you can see through them,” Stephen

explain why our demons were quiet, though. Just to bring it back around to

didn’t have to shout this time,” Misha said. “The more I used my gift at first, the more subtle it got. But it was also clearer. Maybe that’s what’s happening. They were louder the first few times, you got the

be subtle.”

he was uncomfortable with this conversation. I was hyper-aware of his comfort level when it came to any discussion of our demons.

surprising everyone by saying, “Kostya said he thinks Misha

everybody just hear that? I just want to make sure. Viktor, you might need to repeat it a few more times. Just

but he was laughing with the rest of us. I walked to where he was sitting, hugging his

always the analyst, was quietly contemplating our conversation and everything that had happened recently while I started breakfast. Finally, he looked up at everyone. “I think we should have another conversation with Dario. I want to make sure we didn’t miss anything the last time. It’s been a while since we’ve been in the

for a few moments. “Is there a reason this popped into your head now, Yoden? Have you been thinking about Dario or He just randomly popped into your

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