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.

She looked at Viktor, asking, “can you ask

he could. He said, “he thinks he can make it so it’s

it?” Sephie

his sweet smile that was reserved specifically for her. “Who

toward my father’s men, Eduard and Sergel. “I’m really sorry, Sergei, but you need help. You’ve needed help since I met you. I just wasn’t sure

He was a hard man, but he was a good man. Whatever Sephie had picked up on, I was sure

true?” Sergei was silent, but everyone could tell from his body language that

call you out in front of everyone, Sergei, but you’re struggling. It’s getting louder, which means it’s harder for me to

“I can hear it too. You don’t have to deal with all that on your own, you know,”

got curious and did his own searching when Andrei said something. “Sergei, you know that wasn’t

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

not blame himself for what had happened. He said he felt like he should’ve been able to see it coming. He was overprotective of me from that point until I hit adulthood. We all thought he had handled it, but clearly he was still carrying around

up for it for

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,” she said quietly. Sergei looked at her, his eyes

You kept him alive though. There’s

his lungs were revolting. Stephen didn’t let go Sephie recognized that Stephen was having to work to get Sergei

with Stephen. Sephie looked at Battista, as well as Eduard, saying, “you two have to

les in it. Viktor removed his hand, waited for a moment, then put his hand back on Sergei’s shoulder. We didn’t see Kostya this time, but

glanced at Battista, asking, “can you see