“Don’t worry about that at all.It’s all covered, I promise.”
They walked across the park and into the employee cafeteria, using the stairwell to head underground to his home in the bears’ private living area, which was decorated with dark carpeting and walls painted to look like the forest.His home was a two-bedroom ranch.
“Oh wow, this place is amazing,” she said, looking around as they crossed the wide room to his home.
“I’m glad you like it.Each group has their own living area.All the codes are different, so no other group has our codes, and vice versa.”
“Your people really take security seriously.”
“Lots of precious people are down here,” he said with a smile.
He opened the door to his house and shut the door behind them.“I’m going to grab a shower, and then we can get breakfast in the marketplace.Make yourself at home.”
She nodded and he walked away, planning to take the fastest shower possible so he could get back to his soulmate.
As soon as the water was hot, he stripped and stepped under the spray, reaching for the shampoo.And that’s when he heard Sunny’s voice.
“Room for one more?”
Sunny stood in the adorable house and looked around.The family room had a large chocolate-brown sofa that looked soft and comfortable, a flat-screen on a stand that doubled as a bookshelf, which Seneca had filled with cookbooks, and a coffee table with a cooking magazine open to a recipe for grilled burgers topped with something calledpork rolland a fried egg.
She heard the shower turn on.
And her tigress let out a curious purr.
He was in the bathroom, probably naked, getting ready to take a shower.
And holy crap did she want to go to him.
But they’d just met last night.And while they’d spent time together talking before they went to bed, they hadn’t done more than kiss and hold each other all night.
Her body warmed considerably as she thought about him, her nerve endings tingling.They were soulmates.That washerman in the bathroom without her and for what reason?Why wasn’t she with him?Because she’d never believed she’d get a soulmate of her own with only half a tiger in her DNA?But shedidget a soulmate, and she wanted to be with him.
It didn’t matter that they’d just met.
They were made for each other.
Mustering her courage, she toed off her shoes and followed the sound of running water to the master bedroom.She stripped, her hands shaking with anticipation and her body humming like a tuning fork, and then she walked into the bathroom.
She could see his shadow beyond the curtain.
“Room for one more?”she asked.
He pulled the curtain back and gave her a curious but heated look.“Of course.Come on in.”
She stepped into the shower, the steam swirling when he pushed the curtain closed.“I was planning to take a super-fast shower,” he said, turning the shampoo bottle upside down and squeezing some into his hand.“My bear doesn’t like being away from you, but I’m trying not to overwhelm you with how much I want to be with you.”
She watched him wash his hair, mesmerized by the way the water ran in rivulets down his chest, all the way down to his erection that made her want to let out a wanton moan.
“We’re soulmates,” she said.“I want to be with you too.I think we’re maybe putting too much emphasis on the timing of things.”
He rinsed the soap from his hair.“Yeah, probably.I have been known to overthink things.”
They switched places, but she didn’t wash her hair, which was tied back in a loose braid.She picked up the bar of soap from the ledge and handed it to him, then wet her skin under the spray.
He lathered his hands and gave her the soap, and she turned it a few times in her hands until thick suds filled her palms, then put it back on the ledge.They reached for each other at the same time, hands gliding, soap sliding over skin, teasing touches that ramped up her arousal even more.
She ran her hands down the tight ridges of his abdomen, wrapping one hand around his thick length and slipping her other soapy hand down to cup his balls.He played with her breasts, a low growl rumbling in his chest as she stroked him slowly, playing with him as he played with her.He leaned down to kiss her, gently pinching her nipples as he stroked his tongue against hers and sent a riot of sensations through her.
