The Original Crowd (A Whole New Crowd 0.50)

“Austin’s here,” I murmured, starting to feel drowsy. “And Mandy’ll probably show up later. I’m done with Shelley and Kevin.”

“You moving in here?”

“I pretty much already did.”

Tray grinned against my hair. “Yeah. You kind of did.”

“That okay with you?”

“Well, who would turn down all that sex?”

I punched his arm, but it turned into more of a caress.

“Speaking of,” I murmured, tilting my head to look up at him, but still against his shoulder.

“Speaking of.” He met my gaze. “Let’s schedule a nice long orgy tonight.”

And I laughed.

Before long, I fell asleep, even with all the bustling around us. But I was sheltered in Tray’s arms, safe.

So I dozed.

*

When I woke up, I found myself in Tray’s bed, in the pool-house. God, it felt so comfortable!

I meandered out though, had to. I had a little brother to check on and a phone call to Mandy was needed. Not to mention I should call Geezer and Trent about Grayley. Who even knew what happened to Gentley? Tray probably handled that, he seemed to handle everything else.

The agents were all gone when I got inside, and I saw why a second later.

I’d been sleeping for six hours.

“Hey,” Tray called out from behind me.

“Hi.” I yawned. “Everyone take off?”

He just grinned. I could hear the TV from downstairs and some laughter.

“Who’s downstairs?”

“Carter and the gang.” Tray just kept grinning.

“What?” I asked, now suspicious.

“You have any idea how long you’ve been sleeping?”

“Like six hours or something. I must’ve been tired.” I yawned again, but there was something else. Something was off. I don’t know…just a feeling.

“It’s Thursday.”

So?

Holy shit!

“Oh my God.”

“You slept for two fucking days, Taryn.” Tray laughed. “You must have to pee.”