Shift

Chapter 21

"When did that happen?" A smoky voice roused me from my nap.

There was some shuffling before a cool voice answered, "Do you mean the dog pile in the middle of your living room? Shortly after she fell asleep on Mr. Korba."

"I'm surprised Kota is lying that close." 

"That's what surprises you?" The cool voice sounded almost amused. "It wasn't the sight of Mr. Ravenstahl and Mr. Taylor cuddling that did it?"

There was a dark chuckle and a click, "you may be surprised by that, but I know how much Raven likes to cuddle. At least he's wearing clothes this time."

The clicking of a camera dragged me the rest of the way out of sleep. I rolled off of my comfortable bed and dropped onto another one. Well, this was more of two beds pushed as close together as they could get, and neither of them were actual beds. North had a hold of my hand, and Raven was wrapped tightly around him. Raven's front was flush with North's side with his tattooed arm draped over North's stomach.

I wiggled in an attempt to get up, which woke North and other parts of him up. North blinked his eyes open, a soft smile on his face right until he got a look at the arm that was holding him. His eyes followed the tattooed arm to Raven's peaceful face. North's face went green with disgust as he started trying to scoot away from Raven. He scooted up a few inches, which brought Raven's hand to the other part of North that had woken up. His eyes went wide and his movements became frantic. An arm wrapped around my waist and hoisted me up off the sleeping shifters.

"It's about to get a little dangerous over here for you, Little Shadow." I snuggled back into Axel.

North let out a slew of curses and kicked Raven in the stomach. Before I even had time to blink, Raven had a gun pointed at North's face. It took me a moment to register that I had gone airborne just before I crashed into Raven and we both hit the ground. I growled at him, and he dropped the gun. Raven's face went from anger, to shock, to pure happiness. The laughter that burst out of him woke the rest of the boys up.

North pressed a kiss to my forehead and whisked me away from Raven. "Thank you, Sang Baby, but don't ever do that again.

Sean laughed at Axel, who just stared at me, "She used you like a springboard."

Owen pinched the bridge of his nose, his glasses sliding up his face. Waves of frustration came from him. "Sang, you have to think before jumping into things."

Literally. "It's not like I meant to. I didn't even know I moved until just before I crashed into Raven." I peeked over at Axel. "Did you throw me?

He deadpanned. "Did I throw you at the trigger-happy Russian?"

Okay, so he probably didn't throw me. 

"She needs training," Kota said, "and we need hours."

"Hours? What the fuck did we do to get hours?" Gabriel looked extremely put out.

Kota raised a brow at him, "Sang jumped into the situation before any of us did, and we have training."

Gabriel scrunched his nose up, "I sure as hell wasn't going to jump at Raven while he had a gun. Would you have?"

"I don't get the big deal." Raven looked at North. "It's not the first time I've touched a cock."

I choked. Suddenly all those videos came back to mind, and I felt a little sick. Gabriel and I met each other's eyes and he looked a little green as well. Sean couldn't hold back his laughter.

North looked scandalized, "you have never touched my cock." 

Raven shrugged, "they're all the same."