Page 1 of Shark 2

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“The jellyfish are out performing me,” I whined as Theo and I ate our tacos.

Theo, my best friend and a powerful mage, set her margarita down. “What? I thought the kids loved you?”

“The kids do love me, but the parents love the jellyfish more and started coming on dates there! How am I supposed to compete with that?” As a shark shifter who couldn’t shift her teeth well, jobs were limited. So, I’d taken a job at an aquarium as their tiger shark. Most sharks didn’t do well in captivity, so this was the only aquarium to have a tiger shark on exhibit. I spent my days in shark form, swimming around the aquarium, then my nights with my boyfriends at our house.

It was still surreal to be able to say that. A year ago, I was sleeping in the aquarium in shark form at night because I didn’t have a place to live, and I was wondering if I was going to be single the rest of my life.

“Is there something you are famous for … tiger sharks, not you specifically?” she asked.

I closed my mouth since I’d been about to say something dirty regarding myself, which made her laugh.

“There you two are,” Grant said as he walked inside the Mexican restaurant we frequented on Tuesdays, and sat beside me. Grant was a dragon shifter, a mostly average looking man with talented fingers, and one of my boyfriends.

I leaned over and he met me halfway to kiss my lips. “Where’ve you been?”

“The octopus sprayed ink out of the tank again,” he grumbled and crunched on a chip.

“Where’s Reed?” I asked and looked at the door, but he hadn’t walked in. Reed was a werewolf, insanely hot with a sixpack of abs I enjoyed stroking, striking eyes, and was another of my boyfriends.

Grant and Reed had taken jobs as janitors at the aquarium I worked at to not only make some money, but also to stay close to me.

My other two boyfriends, twin brothers Jong-min and Jong-hyun, took a job at my adoptive parents’ restaurant, helping them cook Asian cuisine and serving customers. They’d looked for jobs for a bit and then Mother had ordered them to help since she and Father were older. That was all it had taken to crush the twins’ desire to say no. Family was extremely important to them and taking care of their elders was ingrained in their brains.

“He’s—” Grant didn’t get to finish as Reed walked in, sauntering across the restaurant and gaining every female eye as he did.

“Can you make them stop strutting so much? It’s so distracting,” Theo hissed and chugged her margarita.

I snickered and made a kissy face so Reed would kiss me before he sat down.

“I heard Trinity is giving you trouble again,” I said.

Reed growled and nodded. “She’s a jealous bitch!”

Trinity was the oldest octopus in our aquarium, and when the guys didn’t give her treats, or saw them give treats to other creatures, she made messes for them to clean up.

If I didn’t know better, I’d have assumed she was a shifter, but Trinity was a normal octopus, they were just really intelligent creatures.

“Stop feeding other creatures in front of her,” I said with a scoff. “She’s not the only one who gets jealous when she sees you feeding the asshole jellyfish.”

Theo spit out her drink and coughed violently as the alcohol burned her throat.

Reed patted her back while Grant and I cleaned up the sprayed liquid.

“Oh, my god! Could you not say such ridiculous things while I’m in the middle of drinking?” Theo gasped, and tapped her wig to make sure it was still in its correct place.

“It’s not ridiculous!” I snapped. “Have you ever watched your boyfriends fawn over your enemies? It’s cruel and unusual punishment!”

“Enemies?” Grant asked. “What are you talking about?”

“Hey, guys,” Charles greeted Grant and Reed. Charles was our usual server when we came here and knew better than to bother bringing menus, since we got the same things every single time. “The girls already put in your food order, but you want your usual drinks, too?”

Grant and Reed nodded.

“More salsa, please,” Theo ordered.

“And guac and chips!” I added quickly. With a dragon and werewolf here, we were going to run out of guacamole and chips soon.

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