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.

ask him

of us had any idea that he could communicate so quickly with Kostya, but clearly he could. He said, “he thinks he can make it so it’s not obvious. He still

it?” Sephie asked, grinning at

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

really sorry, Sergei, but you need help. You’ve needed help since I met you. I just wasn’t

most of my life. He was a hard man, but he was a

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

everyone, Sergei, but you’re struggling. It’s getting louder, which means it’s harder for me

can hear it too. You don’t have to deal with all

his own searching when Andrei said something. “Sergei,

me. The attack killed the driver, Petr. It almost killed Sergei. I somehow managed to survive, but that was the first time I found myself in my own darkness. I was out for days. My father never left my side and 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

up for it for almost my entire life.

go through that experience so he could save me when the same thing happened to me. If he hadn’t, I wouldn’t

walked closer to them. “Nor would 1, Sergei. He saved her so she could save me. That night had to happen. You kept him alive though. There’s no way he could’ve survived that crash without you shielding him.

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

well as Eduard, saying, “you two have to watch and

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

at Battista, asking, “can you see