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something tonight. I’ve been waiting for just the right moment.”

    “What is it?”

    She touched her forehead to his and said, “I love you.”

    He closed his eyes and his mouth spread slowly into a wide smile. “Really?”

    She nodded.

    “Tell me again.”

    “I love you,” she said.

    “It’s been so long since I heard that. It feels so good.” He kissed her, then looked into her eyes. “I’m in love with you.”

    She let her fingers slip into his hair. “It’s been a long time since I heard that, too.”

    “Don’t think this is weird of me, but I love Logan, too.”

    “Really?”

    Tears came to her eyes at this. It was one thing for him to say he loved her, but to love her son as well?

    “Thank you for convincing me to give him a chance. You’re right. Hanging around kids isn’t nearly as scary as I thought it’d be.”

    “Neither is hanging out with a bear.”

    He chuckled. “Thank you for taking a chance on me.”

    “Same.”

    He closed his eyes and she closed hers and they drifted off to sleep, tangled in each other’s hearts.

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    Bear Dating Agency IV
    by
    Becca Fanning

“Oh my God, Elise, he’s perfect.”

    Jane Walsh leaned carefully on the edge of the hewn wooden crib, peering in with a lump in her throat. The baby boy was tiny, a perfect replica of humanity in every way. Tiny hands with tiny fingers, tiny lips that blew bubbles as he breathed. He even had tiny dark, hairs starting to sprout from his scalp. He was two weeks old, peaceful and perfect. And, when he opened his eyes to look at Jane, they shone with a ring of glittering gold.

    “Say hello to Isaak Best,” Elise told her brightly.

    Elise had been working less and less in the run-up to giving birth, and Jane hadn’t seen her for more than a month by the time she came to visit Fairhaven Park. Now, Jane could see that it was all so worth it, the slowing down, the taking time to create and care for something so beautiful. It stirred her heart into a warm, deep sensation, and she found herself watching little Isaak with a wistful smile on her face.

    “You want one, don’t you?” Elise asked her.

    Jane turned, eyeing up her favorite client carefully. Elise was glowing with all the charms of new motherhood, despite the tired shadows lurking beneath her eyes. Jane was more than just Elise’s agent, she had grown to be a dear friend to the slightly younger woman. She weighed up her options for answering the big question, and nodded slowly.

    “Sure I do,” Jane replied, “but that involves meeting a man, making commitments. It just takes so much time, Elise. It’s time I don’t have right now.”

    Even as she spoke, Jane couldn’t help but glance at her cell phone, which she’d kept one hand on in her pocket the whole time since she’d left LA. It was on silent for baby Isaak’s benefit, but the emails and instant messages were already piling up. Every five minutes, someone somewhere had a crisis for her to solve. She felt the wistful feeling leave her, a wave of stress returning to turn her body tense.

    “But when will you ever have time, if you don’t stop and look once in a while?” Elise challenged. “Why don’t you call Karina Vasquez? Her agency sent me up here in the first place, remember?”

    Jane shook her head at once.

    “Not everyone can be as lucky as you and Dietrich,” she insisted. She glanced at her phone again. “I really ought to check this. Do you mind?”

    Elise gave a sigh, which seemed to signal that she did mind, but Jane started to move away from the crib all the same. Her steps were heavy as she walked away, and at the door she looked back on the scene of a happy mother, and a woman in love.  

    “I…” Jane began sadly, but she couldn’t let go of what she really wanted to say. “I’m just here for the week, working out-of-office, to see you and get to know Isaak. Love just isn’t on my schedule right now. It’s not like I can just expect a man to