King of the Underworld by RJ Kane

King of the Underworld

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Adrik

Once we were all convened in Vitaliy’s new office, we started to go over the evening’s events. Battista and Vitaly weren’t aware of what had happened when Stephen got rid of the things hanging around the hospital administrator and the mayor.

“Is that what made them cough uncontrollably?” Vitaliy asked.

“We think so. When it happened, the demons were almost desperate to find a way in. It really agitates them when they hear Stephen speak, Ivan said.

“I think the coughing is the body trying to reject it,” Sephie said.

“Does this mean the mayor is good to go now? We don’t need to worry about him further?” Battista asked.

“Not exactly. He still has weaknesses that a different demon can exploit. Viktor is what fixes that, but we haven’t figured out a way to do that subtly yet. It’s visually very obvious when he fixes someone,” I said.

“It’s visually obvious to you. Has anyone who is not you seen him do it yet?” Battista asked. “You all can see things no one else can anyway. Maybe the average person couldn’t see it.”

He did bring up a valid point. Viktor hadn’t used Kostya around anyone else outside our group yet. I glanced at Ilya, asking, “did you see it?

“Yeah, but maybe it was just because I’m his brother?” Ilya said.

looked at Viktor, asking, “can you ask him

could. He said, “he thinks he can make it so it’s not obvious. He still needs me to touch the person to make it happen, but that’s easily

it?” Sephie

was reserved specifically for her. “Who

you need help. You’ve needed help since I

for most of my life. He was a hard man, but he was a good man. Whatever Sephie had picked up on, I was sure that

He looked at Sephie then looked at Sergei, asking, “this is true?” Sergei was silent,

out in front of everyone, Sergei, but you’re struggling. It’s

You don’t have to deal with all that on

his own searching when Andrei said something. “Sergei, you know that

I knew what Sergei was still struggling to deal with. When I was a boy and the other bosses tried to get to my father through me the first time, Sergei was the one that was with me. The attack killed the driver, Petr. It almost killed Sergei. I somehow managed to survive, but that was the first time I

overprotective of me from

for almost my entire life.

been. You always will be. What happened that night is not a reflection of you. It needed to happen, Sergel. He needed to go through that experience so he could save me when the same thing happened to me. If he hadn’t, I wouldn’t be here,”

kept him alive though. There’s no way he could’ve survived that crash without you shielding him. You did exactly what

closer to her and Sergel. She whispered something quietly to Sergei. He nodded his head, then Stephen touched his arm. It took a few moments, but Sergei gasped loudly, like he just jumped into freezing water and his lungs were revolting. Stephen didn’t let go Sephie recognized that Stephen was having to work to get Sergei cleared completely, so she grabbed his other hand, giving him the needed boost. It took a

as well as Eduard, saying, “you two have to watch and let us know if you can see anything.” They both nodded. Battista looked

ho les in it. Viktor removed his hand, waited for a moment, then put his hand back on Sergei’s shoulder. We

asking, “can