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

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 last

too. I was going to bring it up this morning. Any theories?” Ivan

have something to do with that girl that could see my mother and Kostya. Maybe they knew and were hiding from her?” Adrik said.

Do you know if she could see everything? Or is she more like you, in that she

I saw her zero in on Ivan. It worried me, so

Andrei said. He looked at Ivan. “You’re going to be shocked, man. I didn’t know

us. My dad had told me that Ivan’s wings were black,

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

looked to Ivan. “I wonder if she’ll be able to eventually see how much cooler yours are than everyone else’s.” It helped snap him back to reality as well. Adrik quietly slid his arm around my waist. I felt the

different than you guys,” Andrei said. He pushed us the images of both Lena and Kostya that

through them,” Stephen said after

were quiet, though. Just to bring it back around to that,” Ivan

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

be subtle.”

I was hyper-aware of his comfort level when it came to any discussion of our demons. He was getting better, but I know he still

saying, “Kostya said he thinks Misha is right. He’s not completely sure, but from what he can tell, Misha’s on the

might need to repeat it a few more times. Just to be sure we all heard it,” Misha said, his wide, handsome smile

at Misha. The rest of us could do nothing but laugh. Misha’s cheeks got red, but he was laughing with the rest of us. I walked

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 same room as him and Sephie was the only one that could pick up

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

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