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was it. She was going to see him naked for the very first time—and there he was, with soap and shampoo all over him. He suddenly felt embarrassed. Why had he thought it was a good idea? Emma was going to think he was a weirdo standing in the shower covered in coconut-scented products.
    Without even thinking about what he was doing, Colby pulled a shower cap over his head and twisted the faucet to the right. Hot water sprayed all over him, just as the shower curtain was pushed back.  
    “What are doing?” Emma asked. She blinked as the water hit against her face. She rubbed her eyes and pulled the shower curtain against her, shielding her naked body from him.
    “I, uh . . .” Colby stammered. “Taking a shower?”
    “I thought we were playing Naked Hide and Seek,” Emma complained, letting go of the shower curtain and putting her hands on her hips.
    Colby tried not to stare at her too hard, but he couldn’t help himself. Some of her boobage wasn’t exactly covered by the shower curtain—and it was just as perfect as he’d always pictured it in his dreams.
    “We were,” he agreed. “I hid and you seeked me.”
    “Well, you need to let me in the shower with you,” Emma replied. “It’s part of the deal. This whole game was supposed to be for us to explore each other, remember?”
    “Okay. You’re welcome to shower with me.”
    As Emma stepped into the shower, Colby took in the rest of her. Her breasts weren’t the only thing that was perfect. Every inch of her body—which was slender, but curvy in all of the right places—was heavenly.
    Her eyes drifted down his body, too, lingering down there , and Colby took a step back nervously. His head hit against the bottles of shampoo that sat on the shower caddy. Before he knew it, both a shampoo and conditioner bottle clunked on to the shower floor.
    As he reached down to pick one of them up, a bar of soap fell, too, landing right in between his feet.
    Slipping on the soap that he’d already lathered all over himself, he tumbled down onto the shower floor, too—and he wasn’t the only one.
    Emma came crashing down on top of him, her slippery wet body falling into place on top of his. His hands instantly found their way around her hips as her fingertips grazed against his bare chest.
    “Oops,” Emma whispered. Colby knew that she was thinking the same thing as him, though; they really were getting to explore each other’s bodies, which were both now slick from the water that poured over them. Her soaked blonde hair clung to her neck and body in a way that Colby found incredibly sexy.
    She kissed him, slipping her tongue into his mouth.
    He kissed her back passionately. Maybe this would be the night. Maybe he would finally lose his virginity and make love to his mate for the very first time. It caused a mixture of both excitement and nervousness to wash over him.
    As their kiss became even more heated, the sound of laughter erupted from somewhere else in the room.
    Emma broke their kiss and then glanced up at him, a horrified look on her face. “Colby, is this some sort of joke?” she asked in a shrill tone of voice.
    “ What ? No! No way,” he insisted.
    “Then, who the hell is laughing?” Emma rose to her feet, turning the faucet off and wrapping the shower curtain around her to conceal her body again. She ducked her head out of the shower to see who was laughing at them. “Oh, god,” she mumbled when she saw who it was.
    “Now, now! Don’t be too surprised to see me!” a familiar voice said. “I do live here, after all.”
    Colby stood up and pushed the shower curtain back far enough to see that Bennett was standing on the other side of them with a big grin plastered on his face. “I hope I wasn’t interrupting anything, but it looks like I was. I’m terribly sorry. I do love a good game of Hide and Seek, though. I was very intrigued to see who would be the winner of this game. Of course, had I known that you were playing while you were