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.”

just with me anymore, either. You’re picking up more between each other now, too,” I

they were at the meeting with Battista. We can’t figure out why. There were more demons

that too. I was going to bring it up this

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

chance do any snooping with her? 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,

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

She couldn’t see our demons, but she could very clearly see the outline of a pair of wings behind each 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

in stunned silence for a few moments. Andrei and Misha worked together to

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 pull in my chest from him, knowing he was thinking about how much more this made him love me, just as I was for

you guys,” Andrei said. He pushed us the images of both Lena and Kostya that she had seen. “She called them ghosts

angle makes sense, since you can see through them,” Stephen said after seeing what Andrei was

bring it back around to that,” Ivan said. “I

you listened to them last time. They 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

be subtle.”

over look, but I didn’t feel like he was uncomfortable with this conversation. I was hyper-aware of his comfort level when it came to any discussion of our demons. He was getting better, but I

present moment, surprising everyone by saying, “Kostya said he thinks Misha is right. He’s not completely sure, but from what he can

want to make sure. Viktor, you might need to repeat it a few more times. Just to be sure we all heard it,” Misha said,

rest of us could do nothing but laugh. Misha’s cheeks got red, but he was laughing with the rest of us. I walked to where he was sitting, hugging his neck

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

this popped into your head now, Yoden? Have you been thinking about Dario or He just randomly popped into your head

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