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“Oh, yeah! Fuck, baby, don’t stop.”

Tom had absolutely no intention of stopping. Not until he watched Luke come undone from the blowjob he was currently giving him. He wanted to make the man’s body quiver, to feel his balls tighten in the palm of his hand, and to swallow every drop of cum that Luke would give him.

He was actually quite surprised at his current stamina given the fact he had been on the receiving end of such euphoria just moments ago. He still hadn’t quite recovered from it, but he felt too needy for his mate to wait it out.

Luke let out a loud moan and threw his head back when Tom added a twist to his shaft while he was busy sucking on the head. Tom loved the taste of him, couldn’t get enough. After four months of being together, each time with his mate was better than the last.

His dick was beginning to harden again as he watched his enraptured mate’s facial expressions. Luke sat at the edge of the bed with his legs on the floor, spread wide enough to fit Tom’s frame in between. He reclined back resting on his elbows, naked, save for his open, white button-down shirt that he gave up on removing as soon as Tom’s lips and tongue made contact with his cock.

Tom licked up and down Luke’s shaft before sucking him back into his mouth and all the way to the back of his throat. He felt Luke’s legs tremble and then he was fisting the sheets as he let go, spurting his hot seed into Tom’s waiting mouth. He loved his salty taste and eagerly swallowed every drop.

Luke fell back against the bed and Tom wasted no time crawling up his body to kiss his mate on the lips. He tasted himself as well as Luke as their tongues and lips explored one another. After a while, he felt Luke hardening again, and his own cock was now once again painfully erect.

In the blink of an eye, Luke had Tom on his back, with his legs up on Luke’s shoulders. Ever since he was turned, Tom discovered that not only had he senses that were much sharper, but his body was quite a bit lither as well. His legs didn’t protest when Luke leaned in for another kiss, or when his legs were brought closer still to his body as his mate began his sensual assault to his neck and chest.

Finally, just as Tom was about to protest that he couldn’t take anymore, Luke grabbed ahold of his thighs and slowly pushed inside him. When he was fully seated inside, Luke set a slow and steady pace.

Tom loved this position, even more so when Luke leaned a little bit more forward. Not only was the angle pretty damn intense, but it allowed him to look into his mate’s eyes as they both took and gave their pleasure. Those same beautiful eyes electrified as they often ran side by side in their animal forms. The sheriff really was a beautiful man in any form.

“I love you, Luke,” Tom whispered as he gazed at him. It was the first time he had said those words without fear or doubt that they would be used against him or wouldn’t be returned. And if he was being honest, it was the first time he truly meant them.

“As I love you.” Luke leaned in and kissed him languidly as he continued to slowly thrust inside of him.

Only when he felt his orgasm building, did Tom encourage Luke to go faster. Never breaking their kiss, Luke entwined their hands and placed them over Tom’s head as he pumped harder and faster. Tom no longer felt the need to control everything in his life, welcoming his own willing surrender to his mate. He surrendered further as Luke’s command for him to come brought about his orgasm crashing into him, and then he heard his own name being called out repeatedly as Luke came hard inside of him. Luke collapsed on top of him, burying his face in Tom’s neck after giving his claiming mark a gentle kiss.

“I think we may need more than a few minutes to recover this time,” Tom said after both had stopped shaking.

Luke chuckled in response, pulling out of Tom at the same time. They lay there side by side, holding each other for a while before Luke spoke. “We have a lifetime. I think it’s fine if we have to wait more than a few minutes.” He gave Tom a gentle squeeze and then a kiss to his forehead.

A lifetime sounded so completely right with his sheriff. He hadn’t given up his life at all, still working at the hospital, while living in Waretown with Luke. The hour and a half commute was worth it when he got to come home to his mate rather than an empty apartment, and living closer to his parents, both of whom fell in love with Luke after their first meeting, was another added benefit. He decided that coming out as a panther shifter to his parents may be too much for them in their golden years. He wasn’t worried about acceptance, but finding out that the world you knew did not exist wasn’t something he wanted to risk with his parents.

What surprised him, however, when he first returned to work, was that he discovered a doctor he worked closely with was also a shifter—wolf. They had scented it on each other immediately. Tom had pulled him aside and briefly explained how his new shifter status came about. He learned that the wolf was born a shifter, but his mate, a nurse at the hospital, was made just like him. It helped having someone at work to share his secret with—made the new world he had to get used to just a little less strange.

The packs, though they were still grieving for their senseless losses, were restored to living normal lives again, rather than in fear. After learning that Lorenzo had been defeated, along with his sycophantic thugs, his followers had all surrendered.

Tom was grateful every single day for his new life, his second chance, and for a lifelong partner who was the other half of him. It wasn’t just his body saved that day by his guardian panther, but his own heart. And Luke had entrusted Tom with his.

Tom was a heart specialist, after all, and he vowed to always keep it safe.

The End