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.

“can you ask

silent for a few moments. None 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 needs me to touch the person to make it happen, but that’s easily explained.”

Sephie asked, grinning

specifically for her. “Who did you have

need help. You’ve needed help since I

Aleksei, but I’d still known Sergei for most of my life. He was a hard man, but he was a good man. Whatever Sephie had picked up on, I was

true?” Sergei was silent, but everyone could tell

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

can hear it too. You don’t have to deal with all that on your own,

Andrei said something. “Sergei, you know that wasn’t your fault, man.”

through me the first time, Sergei was the one that was with me. The attack killed the driver, Petr. It almost killed Sergei.

He was overprotective of me from that point until I hit adulthood. We all thought he had

up for it for almost my entire

that night is not a reflection of you. It needed to happen, Sergel. He needed to go through

You kept him alive though.

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

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

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