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bottomless sea of bliss.
    Raina heard herself scream as she came, helpless to stop herself. Owen kissed her harder and thrust once, twice, and then growled his own climax. Even through the condom, she felt the spurt of his hot seed.
    Then they both lay relaxed on the sofa, warm and comfortable and close. Owen kissed her, and she ran her fingers through his dark hair. It occurred to Raina that they couldn’t fall asleep on his office couch, but she was too happy and lazy to say anything. And then she fell asleep.
     
     
     
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    Owen woke before Raina. He leaned on one elbow and looked down at her as she slept in peaceful content.
    She lay naked on the sofa, the luscious curves of her body displayed like a diamond necklace in a velvet box. Raina’s face was relaxed in sleep, her plump lips slightly parted. She was more beautiful than ever. Her curling hair was spread out in a pretty disarray, making him long to run his fingers through it. Her nipples were rose-pink against the ivory mounds of her breasts. Her soft thighs were slightly parted, letting him see a tiny bit of pink between her legs. Just looking at her was making him hard.
    My mate . He could hardly believe that he’d found her. But their explosive sexual connection had sure as hell been real. In the seemingly shy Raina, he’d found a passion and a wildness to match his own.
    She stirred, then opened her eyes. He was once again struck by their beauty, a rich brown like the trunk of an oak tree.
    He bent to kiss her. “Good morning.”
    Raina smiled up at him. “Good morning. I didn’t mean to fall asleep in your office. Lucky it was Friday night, or all your employees would have walked in on us.”
    Owen laughed. “No, they wouldn’t have. This is my private office— no one else has the code.”
    Raina sat up and looked around. “This isn’t the usual sort of office. I didn’t really notice last night— I had better things to look at— but it’s more like an apartment.”
    “It is an apartment, really. I call it my office because it’s where I come to invent things. I don’t work well in a corporate type office, with desks and chairs on wheels and fluorescent lights. It makes me feel caged. Like I’m in a zoo.”
    “A zoo for CEOs,” Raina said with a chuckle. “I don’t think that’d be a good tourist attraction.”
    As she looked around his office, Owen saw it with her eyes, as if he was looking at it for the first time. There was the sofa, and the door to the bathroom. There was a small but well-stocked kitchen, and a table and chairs. The rest of the studio apartment was Owen’s workshop, with a large worktable and cabinets full of neatly organized tools, mechanical parts, and half-made inventions.
    “What do you invent?” Raina asked curiously.
    “Gadgets. Tech toys. Sometimes I make things just to amuse myself.” He lifted her in his arms, enjoying her cute little squeak of surprise and the warmth and softness of her body against his. “If you take a shower with me, I’ll show you one.”
    She lay back, smiling, as he carried her into the bathroom. “I love that your office has a shower.”
    “It doesn’t just have a shower. It has a shower with a view.”
    Owen turned as he stepped into the shower, tilting Raina so she got a good view of the window overlooking the city. It was all spread out before them, buildings like Lego constructions, the gray ribbons of freeways and overpasses, and the green woods beyond.
    “I bet it’s even prettier at night,” Raina said as he set her down. “All lit up like a Christmas tree.”
    “It is, but then you can’t see the forest. I get my ideas hiking in the woods, and then I come here and build them.”
    Raina glances around the shower. “So where’s the inventions? Don’t tell me you invented soap.”
    Owen chuckled. “No. How hot do you like your shower? And do you like a hard spray, or a gentle one?”
    “Pretty hot,” Raina said. “And I like it gentle, but