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“Heat level nine. Force level three. Size level ten. Shower on.”
    The shower instantly turned on, drenching them in huge but gentle drops of hot water. He loved hearing Raina’s delighted laugh.
    “How is it?”
    “Perfect! Well, maybe a little cooler.”
    “Heat level eight,” Owen said. The water instantly cooled.
    “That’s amazing,” Raina said. “When is this going to hit the markets?”
    “A couple years, probably. We’re still tinkering with it. So you’re the test audience. What do you think?”
    “I don’t know how I’ve lived all these years without a voice-activated shower,” Raina said.
    Owen laughed, then squeezed out some shampoo to wash Raina’s hair. As he began to work it in, massaging her scalp, she said, “No voice-activated shampoo?”
    “That’ll be in 2.0,” Owen said.
    Raina leaned back against him with a contented sigh. Owen luxuriated in having her soft curves pressed to his body. He was overwhelmed with happiness. He’d found his mate!
    Once they got to know each other better, he’d find the exact right moment to explain to her that he was a bear shifter. He’d make sure she felt completely safe and wouldn’t be scared by the revelation, even if she was shocked. And then she’d know everything important about him, and they could get on with building a life together.
    He wondered when he should tell her. He didn’t want to wait too long, but he didn’t want to do it too soon, either. Maybe in two weeks.
    They finished showering, dried off, and got dressed. Owen took Raina into the kitchen, where he made her pancakes, bacon, and coffee.
    “You cook,” Raina said.
    “Sure,” Owen replied. “I mean, sort of. I can’t do anything complicated.”
    “How did you learn? From your family’s cook?”
    “Raina, I wasn’t always a billionaire. My family never had a cook. My—” He hastily searched for something other than the truth, which was that he’d grown up with a bear clan in the wilderness. As a cub, he’d happily tagged along to dig beehives out of hollow trees and slap live salmon out of rivers. “My parents hunted and fished. We did our own cooking. I’ve only been a billionaire for about five years.”
    “Oh, only that long,” Raina said teasingly.
    “It still feels strange,” he confessed. “I didn’t start making gadgets in the hope of becoming a billionaire. That just sort of… happened. I’ve just always liked working with my hands.”
    That, and that he’d met every young, single female bear in America, plus a bunch of young, single female wolves and coyotes and tigers and lions and eagles and so forth, and not one of them was his mate. He’d finally come to the big city in the hope that he’d run into his mate by chance, among all those people who lived there. And he had!
    With total honesty, Owen added, “Maybe I came to the city to meet you.”
    Raina shook her head in amazement. “I wasn’t even supposed to be in that auction. My best friend Madison volunteers at a homeless shelter, and she was supposed to be the bachelorette. She made me stand in for her because she got chicken pox. I owe her.”
    “So do I. I’ll have to thank her some day,” Owen said. “When she’s not contagious.”
    When they finished their breakfast, Owen said, “Raina, want to come hiking with me? I know some great trails. And I have a cabin in the woods. We could pack a picnic, go hiking, then come back to my cabin.”
    “I’d love to.”
    Owen drove Raina to her apartment, then dropped her off to pack while he went shopping to put together a picnic basket. Then he picked her up. She’d changed into jeans that showcased her gorgeous ass and curvy thighs, and a pink T-shirt that stretched temptingly over her luscious breasts. The V-neck showed cleavage that made him want to rip her shirt off.
    Noticing him staring, she said wryly, “Cinderella’s back from the ball.”
    “You’re still a princess to me,” Owen said, and kissed her