King of the Underworld by RJ Kane

Chapter 496

496
Adrik
Viktor walked in my office, looking quite serious, even for him. “Boss, the DA just called. He’s ready to prosecute Dr. Moretti. They went through the files we gave them from Sal in much more detail than we did. Eric can bring charges against Sal as well.”
I thought for a moment. “I’m not sure I want that happening. If Sal has made his own deal, his fate might already be sealed. I want to talk to Battista to see what he knows about Sal’s deal first.” I inhaled, tapping my fingers on my desk as I thought about how everything needed to happen almost simultaneously and we still didn’t have a solid plan. “Tell Eric he can have Dr. Moretti, but I want to wait on Salf now.”
Ivan had walked in, shortly after Viktor. “Giving him the doctor will buy us just a little bit of time. The information we get on everyone else could look like it came from him, if we play it right,” he said.
“That’s what I was thinking, too. I think we can link Henry to Sal and make it look like the doctor is the one that exposed that connection,” I said. “I’d like to meet with Eric and Doug one more time before we actually hand over the doctor. Are they still being followed by Henry’s people?”
Ivan nodded his head. “I say that loosely. His people are not very good, but they’re still watching both Eric and Doug. There’s several places that we can easily get you to where you can meet with them without anyone seeing.”
“Let’s see what Battista has for us, then set something up to meet with those two in person. If I hand that sack of s*it over to them, I want to know he’s going away for the rest of his life. I don’t want to have to find him again and tie up their loose ends. That’s just going to p*ss me off.”
Sephie walked in right as I said that last sentence. “Nobody wants that. Especially not how that you’re all murdery and s*it on a regular basis,” she said, smiling widely as she walked to me. “Andrei can kill people with his thumbs, you can now kill people with one look.”
I pushed my chair back, opening my arm for her. She was still grinning at me as she leaned down and kissed me sweetly. It never failed to surprise me how much her simple gestures helped me relax and melted the stress away. I pulled her into my lap wrapping my arms around her, suddenly not caring one bit about anything but
her.
“I’ll let Eric know. Battista should be here in a few minutes,” Viktor said, looking at watch. “Stephen is already downstairs waiting for him.”

“Thank you, Viktor,” I said, pulling Sephie closer to me. She leaned back against me hugging my arms around her waist. “What have you gotten into this morning?” I asked, my mouth against her ear.
“Not much. Just making plans for world domination with the Wonder Twins. I really feel like this plan might be the one,” she said as seriously as she could manage.
Ivan chuckled. “If it’s you and Misha planning it together, at least we know it’ll be entertaining.”
She pointed at him, saying, “right? Thank you!”
I laughed at her antics, loving the short breaks she always managed to provide to my tay that made everything a little brighter. “Do you still have a weird feeling about Battista coming today?” I asked her, brushing her hair away from her shoulder let my fingertips brush her neck lightly, loving the sparks I could clearly feel from her as I did.
“I do. I don’t think it’s necessarily bad. I might just be nervous from the last time he requested our services,” she said.
“Did Andrei, Misha, or Stephen get anything else about it?” Ivan asked.
“No, not that I know of. The Wonder Twins are wary, much like me, but it’s nothing specific.” We all heard the elevator doors ding. “That’s Stephen,” she said.
“You need to teach me how to do that,” Ivan said.
She giggled. “I will gladly teach you how to do that if you agree to spar with me at least once a week for the foreseeable future,”
Ivan had smiled more than I’d ever seen him smile since I met Sephie, but the smile at stretched across his face when she asked him to spar with her more was maybe the largest smile I’d ever seen on that man’s face. I could feel how happy it made him. “Deal,” he said. I could also feel how happy it made her when he
agreed.
“Not gonna lie, I love the fact that my fiancée is giddy over being trained to be a better fighter right now,” I said right before Stephen walked into the office with Battista. Shortly after, the Wonder Twins and Viktor walked in, closing the door behind them.
The mood turned slightly more serious once Battista was in the office. Once he had greeted everyone, we got straight to business. “Battista, how did you find out
about Ricardo and Martin’s deals?” I asked.
He sighed. “It’s a complicated answer, but the very basics are that we have a psychic that gets notified by whatever communicates with her when another deal is
made.”
“You don’t know what communicates with her?” Sephie asked.
“No, she refuses to reveal how she gets the information,” Battista said.
“How long between when deals are made and when she finds out usually?” I asked..
“I’m not entirely sure. I don’t think I’ve ever asked that question. Why are you asking
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