Chapter 410
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Adrik
I felt Sephie stir next to me. I knew it was morning. I did not want it to be morning. I knew I didn’t have
anything important until early afternoon, so I could stay in bed with her for once. I didn’t even open my
eyes; I just pulled her closer to me, pulling her leg over mine. “I’m not getting up yet. You’re not allowed
to leave yet, either, “I thought. I heard her quietly giggle as she snuggled in closer to me. She pressed
her bodypletely against. mine. I heard her sigh as she rxed once more, falling back asleep.
It was sometimeter when I woke up again. She was still asleep next to me, her bodypletely
tangled with mine. I heard Ivan’s voice, but I heard it in Sephie’s head. This is weird.
“Princess, are you two okay? You never sleep this long, but nobody is brave enough toe check on
you.”
I couldn’t help butugh. I was thankful they weren’t going toe in to check, as I hugged Sephie’s
naked body a little tighter. I concentrated on Ivan, trying to push my words to him the same way Sephie
had shown me with her. “She’s fine, Ivan. It’s my fault. I didn’t want to wake up this morning.” I wasn’t
sure it had worked, but I heard his reply a few momentst.
“You got new level zapped, Boss. Don’t think I didn’t see your eyes changest night.”I could tell he
wasughing when he thought that.
“Right. Because being able to talk to you when you’re G od knows where ispletely normal, too, I
thought. I could hear himughing, “We’ll be out
soon.”
I pulled Sephie closer, running my hands through her hair. She made her cooing noises, snuggling into
me even more. “I like it best when you sleep in with me. The guys try their best, but nobody keeps me
warm like you do,” she said. She finally opened her eyes, revealing my favorite deep blue..
“It’s the thoughts you make me think. It warms me up. They don’t have the same thoughts. Because
they know I would kill them for thinking about you the same way I think about you,” I said.
Sheughed loudly. “Gross.”
I couldn’t help butugh at her response. “Come, we should get up. The guys are worried. Ivan
checked on you once already.”
“Ivan came in here?” she asked, surprised.
“No. I could hear him in your head. He was asking if you were okay. He said one of them were brave
enough toe in here, which I appreciate.”
“You heard him in my head?”
I nodded. “I answered him, since you didn’t wake up. You were right. Apparently he and I can
communicate with each other the same way you and I do. He also caught my eyes changingst night.
He said I got new level zapped when I told him it was me that didn’t want to wake up this morning.”
“He’s right. I think you did. I’m not surprised he caught your eyes changing, either. He’s very quick to
notice the newest weird things now,” she said. “Poor Viktor is going to be terrified once he learns you
and Ivan can do it too.
I sighed. “I don’t know what to do about Viktor. I think you’re right. I think he’s avoiding spending time
with you.”
“He is. I’m not sure I’m going to be the one to help him. My dad said it needs to be you and Ivan. My
dad keeps assuring me that Viktor isn’t scared of me, but he’s terrified of finding out what he can do.
He knows I’m the one that’s helped everyone else unlock their gifts and he doesn’t want to know what
his is yet.”
“How do we help him then? I don’t know the first thing about how you’ve helped everyone else. You just
do it, it seems. How are we going to do that for him?” I asked, thinking of how Ivan and I could possibly
get Viktor to realize his gift.
“That, my love, is the million-dor question,” she said, climbing over me to get out of bed. “One that I
do not have the answer to just yet.”
Viktor walked into my office that afternoon. “I heard from the journalist. He said he has the informa”
Chen is the one he’s been talking to this whole time? Did Battista tell him who he’s really been help
need. Do we still keep up the charade that
I thought for a few moments. “I’ll call to confirm with Battista, but my first instinct is to keep up with the
charade. Chen seems to enjoy it and I’d still like to keep us as anonymous as possible.”
Viktor chuckled. “Chen loves it. Who knew that kid would enjoy pretending to be somebody else so
much? I’ll make the arrangements.”
Once he walked out of the office, Ivan walked in the office, closing the door behind him. “That looks
serious,” I said, watching him close my office
door.
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“Eh, I’d rather not be overheard and I don’t know how I feel about it looking like we’re in here staring at
each other without saying anything yet. We have to ease into this one,” he said,ughing as he sat
down.
“What’s on your mind?”
“Sephie talked to you about Viktor?” he asked.
“Briefly, yes. When we woke up this morning. I had noticed that he’s been avoiding spending any time
with her after she brought it up. He always sends somebody else. I think she might be starting to take it
personally,” I said
“She’s definitely taking it personally, but she’s also trying to not let it bother her. Her dad confirmed that
he’s been avoiding her. She was not the least bit surprised. But her dad also said it might be up to the
two of us to help hire figure it out,” Ivan said.
“That’s what Sephie told me this morning. The bigger question is how the f u ck do we do that? She’s
the one that’s done it for everyone else. Even she doesn’t know how she’s done it. She just does.”
Ivan was thoughtful for a few moments. “I think we should have a conversation with her. She’s
inadvertently nailed everyone’s gifts before they’ve gotten them. I think she was the first one to say that
Stephen could mi n df
uck someone. She nailed me being able to see demons. She also hyped Andrei up enough that he
finally started to trust himself and trust what he was seeing. The only one she didn’t do much for was
Misha, but his was already starting. She did, however, make da mn sure we’d always listen to it.” N?velDrama.Org ? 2024.
“I don’t think I’ve heard her say anything like that about Viktor, though. Because he’s the one that
spends the least amount of time with her, he has the fewest inside jokes with her.”
“That’s why we need to talk to her, I think. I know she’s seen something that one of us have or she
knows something that the rest of us don’t, she just hasn’t paid attention to it. She just has to give us a
hint on what she thinks his gift is and then we can figure out a way to help him realize it.”
“Agreed. She gave you extra points when she found out you caught my eyes changing yesterday. She
said you’re getting quite good at seeing the weird sh it when it first happens. I agree.”
When
“I wouldn’t have caught it if her dad wouldn’t have told me it was going to happen. I knew hers started
when she would get insane level angry. I felt her anger go off the charts to contain yours, I figured that’s
when it would happen. I knew you were also trying to figure out a way to keep her from seeing
Armando again. The best way to keep him from seeing her eyes to make your eyes do the same thing.
For the record, I do agree with her on what to do about him, but it doesn’t mean I’m happy about not
watching him die.”
“I’m still trying to wrap my brain around that one. I still don’t like it. I’ll arg with her. I’m not sure I should
argue with the universe though,” I said. Ivanughed as he saw my anger start to rise over not being
able to kill Armando myself.
“You might need to get contacts too, Boss. At least for your business meetings, he said, smirking at
me.
“No sh it? Right now? I’m barely angry.”
“No sh it. They’re not as dark as hers, but they’re darker than what they werest night. It took her a
long time to get all the way ck.
“Sh it. I didn’t even think about my meetings. That’s gonna be awkward until I can get a handle on this,”
I said, somewhat amused at the thought of scaring my business associates.
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“Maybe avoid eye contact for a while until we can figure this out,” he said,ughing at my predicament.
“Get out of my office, as shole,” I said,ughing with him.