Page 3 of Shark 2

Silver laughed, grabbed some bottles from the bar behind him, and started mixing something while hiding the bottles so we couldn’t see what he put in it.

“Was your food good?” Jong-hyun asked. His arm slid around my lower back and I stepped into him.

“Yes,” I answered, nodding. “It was definitely needed after the day I had.”

“The parents keep diverting the kids away from you to see the jellyfish still?” he guessed.

I fake sniffled. “Yeah, and Grant was giving them snacks!”

He fake gasped. “No!”

Grant rolled his eyes as he squeezed between us at the bar. “I’m sorry, but it is part of my job.”

“What if they end up not needing me anymore and then I’ll be out of a job?” I was mostly kidding, but there was a small part of me worried about that possibility.

“Well, you better make some money as your other shark form then,” Jong-min said from behind me.

I spun, a small smile on my face to keep my sharp, serrated, shark teeth mostly hidden. No matter how hard I tried to shift them, they never became dull, like a human’s, while I could get the rest of my body to do so. Often, if my teeth were exposed, people avoided me. Somehow, my four amazing boyfriends were able to overlook it. “Being a pool shark is my favorite form.”

“Because it earns you the most money,” Reed, my drop-dead gorgeous werewolf shifter boyfriend said as he joined us. He threw his arms around me and pulled me into a bone-crunching hug.

“You guys are going to make me sick,” Theo muttered.

“Did you miss me?” Reed asked.

I nodded. “Grant was super mean to me today.”

“Here we go,” Grant sighed.

Reed kissed my cheek and asked, “Want me to kick his ass?”

Watching them fight was incredibly fun.

“Help me hustle some guys?” I countered.

“You got it.”

“Girls, your drinks,” Silver said, and set two swirling green drinks on the bar top.

Quickly, I extricated myself from Reed and gently pushed Jong-min to the side so Theo could stand at the bar with me.

We both stared into the drinks, eyes wide.

“Looks like poison,” I whispered out of the side of my mouth.

Theo nodded. “It swirls and sparkles. I didn’t know a non-magical liquid could do both.”

“Flip a coin to see who tries it first?”

She scoffed. “I know you’ve got a weighted coin.”

We both heard Silver sigh, but we ignored him, focused on our silliness and fun.

“Drink it together and if it is poison, we’ll die together?” I suggested.

She nodded and we simultaneously picked up the drinks, clinked the rims against each other, and then downed them in one gulp.

Fruity ecstasy exploded on my tongue, down my throat, and into my stomach. A vision of a perfectly warm, sunny beach with just a slight breeze flashed before my eyes before it was replaced with a sense of euphoria.

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