Coming Alive

Chapter Ten

Raven's POV
I've never felt so much like a little kid again in my life than when when my beautiful nindzya yelled at me. Stupid South....it's his fault. I took the fastest shower I could trying to get all the paint out of my hair and hands. I do give Gabe credit though the kid has talent when it comes to this stuff rinsing out my specially made shampoo before grabbing my body wash the smell of smokey spices filling the air. As I rinse off my now clean skin I look at my arms thinking that it's time to get another tattoo maybe moy malen'kiy nindzya will come with me. I quickly get out drying off then throwing on a tan t-shirt and black shorts and plain black sneakers leaving my hair to finishing drying by itself after I quickly run the towel over it. I walk into her room hearing the blow dryer turn off as I walk towards her bathroom door only to be met with the sight of her hair flowing down her back towel wrapped tightly around her sexy body...blayd (fuck)...these shorts aren't going to hide this massive hard on that's happening right now.

        I took her in losing all thoughts of what I was going to say not being able to form words in English I whispered thanks to her for all that she had done and not really meaning for the party. When she said my name though every shred of control I had snapped. Normally I hate hearing my actual name, but hearing it come from her lips perfectly pronounced in a low whisper I wanted to hear her scream it. I was thanking that we had actually sound proofed the walls of her room, but we didn't tell her that. Throwing everything I had into that kiss I pushed all the passion into me in it and feeling her body react to me made me growl in appreciation. Her slender body pushing against mine with only a towel between my fingers and her perfect ass was maddening, but when those assholes ever made their presence known blayd (fuck)...damn them, but at the same time I was thankful she wasn't ready for that yet. Shooing us out of her room her door slammed behind us and I punched Marc's shoulder only to have them both laugh before we walked towards the backyard to greet Kevin and his team. I couldn't wait to see what she had been doing all day. Happy 23rd birthday to me.

It was amazing to see Kevin he was and will always be family. As guests from different academy teams started arriving I searched around for my nindzya she had to be somewhere and sure enough she was in conversation between Marc and Mr. Ivan Petrov who is one of the heads of the international branch of the Academy. I knew he would love Anastasia for more than just her ghost status, but for her vast knowledge of languages. She was smoothly speaking to him in French then he quickly transitioned into Spanish and I watched in amazement as she didn't miss a beat continuing the conversation without pause.

         Wrapping my arm around her thin waist positioning her between Marc and myself I joined in the conversation. Dobdryy den', ser. Spasibo chto prishli. Vizhu vy vstreliti nashu ptitsu (Good afternoon, sir. Thank you for coming. I see you met our bird.) I spoke to him changing Mr. Petrov's gaze to mine. "Yes you're quite welcome Raven. Happy birthday by the way. She's quite charming. I was actually talking to her and Marc here about her maybe helping us in the international side. Maybe mostly with helping new recruits if they wanted to learn english or teaching languages in general. Actually she might be of some use in your upcoming assignment." My blood ran cold. Nyet! She would not be involved! I growled audibly which only made the man who I actually respected smirk. "You both know she'd be perfect she can easily pass for German and it is one of the languages she speaks and would give Corey credibility." He shrugged saying it matter of fairly then turning to Anastasia reaching out his hand to shake hers saying "You charming young lady will be hearing from me to set up getting you on my payroll."

          As soon as Petrov walked away I felt moy malen'kyi nindzya touch my chest forcing my gaze to meet hers my arm still firmly around her waist and hers around mine the other hand leaving my chest to now hold one of Marc's. "Da? Moya lyubov (my love)" I said feeling all tension leave my body as I looked into her eyes. "I'll do anything to help you guys if he thinks I can we should at least discuss it as a family." Shocked was what I felt as first then immense happiness. I made eye contact with Marc making sure he heard her say that to find the same kid on Christmas look. This was turning out to be the best birthday I've ever had.