Chapter 375
Adri
Sephie still felt slightly upset, but she was trying to smile through it. She turned toward me after putting
her contacts back in, smiling sweetly up at me. She reached up and pressed her lips to mine. “I love
you.” the said as the grabbed my hand to walk back to the kitchen.
The guys were still in the kitchen as Sephir lest me back out. They looked concerned, but I could tell
that she smiled at them an i soften. Vitalis and Aleksei were standing with them. Sephie didn’t waste
any time. “Vitaliy, what did you feel when you thook that woman’s hand
all of their faces
today”
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He looked surprised, but there was also an air of amusement. “It’s good to see you
he said, a shy smile across his face.
ms question and I’llwn over you, but not before. I saw your react when you touched her,” she said,
crossing her arms across her chest. The guys were struggling to notugh
Vitaliy chuckled, but answered her question. “She’s very evil. Battista ows of my ability. asionally,
he brings people for my approval. She was one that he was seeking approval on,” he said.
“Then why did he tell me that I did him a huge favor and he’s in my debt now before we left?” she
asked
“Because you gave him a valid reason to get rid of her quickly. They’ve been working on a few small
things together and it’s gone well, but he said he’s never feltpletelyfortable with her. He just
didn’t know why. That’s when he usually seeks out my services. She’s very influential with a few other
business associates of Battista’s, so he can’t just cut ties with her without a valid reason. You’ve given
him a valid reason. He may be a womanizer and he might openly flirt with women, but never in the
disrespectful manner that she did today. He knows his boundaries. She clearly did not, but vou did an
excellent job of reminding her, dkaya,” he said,ughing. “What did you tell her when she got up**
“That if she ever tried to touch him again, she would no longer have functioning hands.” Sephir said,
her arms still folded across her chest. She was clearly still irritated with her.
Vitaliy and Aleksei both looked surprised, but bothughed at Sephie’s words. She moved to lean
against the counter, chewing on her bottom lip. *Vitaliy, ow does your ability work? Is it a ck or wh ite
situation? Or do you feel like levels of good and evil?” she asked.
“It’s more nuanced than ck and wh ite. Like I said before, some people are ruled by good, some by
evil. But there’s also what they’re doing about it. I can feel that too. Some people fight against the evil
and ultimately end up being very good people. Some people are ruled by good, but still choose eval for
whatever reason. It depends on the person. This woman today, though. There was no good in her,” he
said.
Sephie looked at Ivan, silently asking if he was okay to tell Vitaliy what happened. He nodded once.
“Ivan and I saw her demon. She’spletely consumed by it,” she said.
Italty raised his eyebrow. “How?”
Septur und, “we’re still not entirely sure. It’s happened to Ivan before today, but it was rare. It’s never
happened to me before.” She suddenly looked at like she’d made a connection. “It might’ve happened
with me because your hand was on me. Like I borrowed it fro (you same as I do Misha.”
Vitaliy looked at Ivan. “You can see the face of evil?”
Ivan shrugged his shoulders. “It hasn’t happened in so long that I’d invinced myself I was imagining it
when it happened before. I wa happened before.”
kid when it
“When you were at the facility?” he asked, Ivan looked surprised, then turned to look between me and
Sephie. Vitaliy quickly added, “I figured it out. They told me nothing other than you were incapable of
feeling pain and you had a hatred for doctors. I’d heard stones of the facility for years. Your inability to
feel pain was highly sought after in Russia years ago You shu t the program down the night you
escaped, for the record. You scared them.”
Ivan looked stunned. Sephie went to him, sliding her arm around his waist. He put his arm around her
shoulders, pulling her to him. He kissed the top of her head, saying, “thank you. I needed to know that.”
He looked back to Vitaliy. “When I was at the facility. I never saw the doctor’s faces. It was always their
demons. It’s why I’m so haunted by it, even still. It hasn’t happened since I got out, so I just convinced
myself was a traumatized kid. But then as soon as that woman turned toward me today. I could clearly
see it on her. Sephie saw itter.” He still had his arm around Sephie as he
talked. She quietly stood next to him, happy to be his anchor.
Vitaliy thought for a few minutes, then looked at Andrei and Misha before looking at me. “Did you three
get anything from her today?”
“I was nauseous every time I looked at her. That’s how I know something is going to go very badly,”
Misha said.
“I didn’t get anything good from her. I didn’t like her, but she didn’t talk enough for me to be able to
figure out why I didn’t like her,” Andrei said.
“She made me si ck when she tried to touch me,” I said.
Vitaliy looked at me, both eyebrows raised. “Does that happen often?”
I shook my head no. “Only twice that I can think of and only since I met Sephie. Both times were other
women trying to touch me. There was one time a woman at a bar touched me and it was not as
extreme of a reaction. I didn’t like it, but she didn’t make me si ck. The other two made me si ck. Almost
to the point of anger both times.”
For once, Vitaliy smiled at someone other than Sephie. “That’s how it started for me. I was about your
age when it started, too,” he said. “It started with women other than your mother. I couldn’t stand for
them to touch me. It was very intermittent when it first started, but it started to get more prevalent. Then
it started happening with everyone. The more I paid attention to it, the more precise it got. You, though.
You’ve always felt different to me, I could always feel something from you, even before I could from
other people. From the first time I held you as a newborn, I could feel you were special. I’d never found
anyone else that felt like you until you brought Sephie to me.”
“And then you found out he brought you five more. You have a very generous son, Vitaliy,” Sephie said,
grinning at him.
Vitaliy nodded his head, agreeing with her and unable to hide his smile.
“I think your math is off slightly, Seph,” Stephen said.
Vitally looked at him, seriously. “She speaks no lies. You feel the same as the rest of them. I don’t
randomly put my hand on your shoulder because I’m a warm and fuzzy guy, Stephen. I didn’t believe
her at first either, so I checked. All of you. You’re all the same.”
Stephen and Viktor looked at Sephie, the surprise clearly written on their faces. She couldn’t help but
laugh. “You both have something special about you, but you’re very timid about believing it. We don’t
know what it is until you start to believe it for yourselves. It’s also not an absolute guarantee that you’ll
figure it out in this lifetime, which is just fine. You’ll figure it out in your own time, on your own terms.
This is a lot to take in for all of us. You’re both dealing with your own things on top of everything else.
There’s no time limit on any of this. It will happen when you’re ready,” she said.
They were both quiet for a few minutes, mulling over what she’d just said. Stephen’s phone beeped, to
indicate dinner had arrived. He finally looked up at Sephie. “d is going to be so pi ssed that I kept
this from him for this lung,” he said, as he stood up to go downstairs.
We allughed as once again Vitaliy and Aleksei were left confused at just who this d person was
and why he would be pi ssed at Stephen. I found myself loving Sephie a little more for her random
silliness that gave us so many of these moments now. I never wanted her to stop.