The morning came so quick that Joseph the nineteen year old Snow Leopard had to wonder aloud if he’d just fallen asleep. This inquiry woke the two curled up against him, drawing his silver eyes to take in the two bobcats. On his left lay the ten year old Athaisce and to his right lay the twenty seven year old Misha, the girl’s mother. “What time is it?” Misha said with a wide yawn, making a cute face after. He glanced over at the alarm clock on the bedside table and sniffled a little before nuzzling her cheek and telling her the time. She instantly froze then bolted out of the bed. “Shiiiiit! I’m going to be sooo late!” an exclaim came from down the hall just after she fled the room. Chuckling to himself, he turned his attention to the half asleep girl curled up against his side, giving her a soft kiss on the lips before giving her cute little rump a slap. “Wake up and get ready for school. You wouldn’t want to be late either,” he told her, laughing when she scooted out of the bed and wobbled her way to the door. He’d probably left her really sore after last night. It had only been her second time and he hadn’t really gone easy on the poor girl. He himself scooted to the edge of the bed and stretched lazily. He had no plans for the day, but considering he and Tiana were going to be alone for the first time, he figured he could take her out and go shopping. Though they’d brought most of her clothes over from her house, she was most certainly a woman and women just cannot refuse to spend hours at a mall looking at clothes they don’t really need. He smiled to himself at the thought, thinking of how normal that would be. After the death of her husband, she certainly needed normal. He slipped naked from the bed and got himself a clean pair of black boxers with suggestive pink lip prints all over it, a pair of blue jeans and a sapphire blue button up shirt before going into his private bathroom. He showered quickly but thoroughly before dressing and running his fingers through his hair. He paused to look at himself in the mirror, taking in how he looked. Compared to how he had looked almost a year ago, he was older but happier; more experienced in life. His gaze traveled to his ears and he absently stroked the left one, remembering how he used to have his ear pierced, but he’d stopped that shortly after having sex with Gena that very first time. So much had changed, he had grown emotionally if not physically, and his bank account had most certainly grown as well. He thought about his dead grandfather and realized then that he was probably the only one that cared the old man was gone. He frowned and promised himself that he’d go visit his grave someday soon. With a shake of his head, he left the bathroom and padded his way out into the hallway through his room, nearly getting run over by a running Gena, the ten year old black Timber Wolf that had started his road to this point. “Careful!” he called after the girl with a smile, “Have fun at school!” She waved over her shoulder and smiled at him before leaving the house to catch the bus with Athaisce. The two of them went to the same school now, and it really hadn’t been that big an issue to get them transferred, as it turned out. The only issue had been that this new school was a little more advanced than Athaisce’s old school, so pretty soon he was going to have to enforce a mandatory study time each night or the girl would fall behind. He’d think about that when the time came though. For now, he made his way to the kitchen, where Tiana the thirty year old Arctic Wolf was standing by the coffee machine, fixing two mugs, and Misha was fixing herself a thermos of the delectable stuff. “Mornin’,” he greeted, smiling at the two of them who responded in kind. Misha was wearing a rather smart coal gray business suit with an appropriate length skirt and a black leather purse over her shoulder. Tiana herself wore a simple oversized t-shirt with a hem down to her mid-thigh, so it was likely she only wore panties beneath- common wear for her this early in the morning Joseph had come to discover. “I have to get going now. You two have fun and look after the girls while I’m gone,” Misha said while going over and giving him a hug. With that she left quickly, getting into her SUV before driving off to catch her flight. Tiana finished with the mugs and handed him one before leaning back against the counter and sipping her coffee. “Thank you,” he told her softly as he leaned against the counter next to her, sipping the delicious brew. She knew just how he liked his coffee; they both had the same taste for the stuff after all. After a moment he spoke up, “So, with everyone gone, the house feels waaaay too empty.” She nodded in agreement and sipped her coffee. “So I was thinking we could get out and go shopping.” Instantly the woman seemed to perk up, her fluffy ears at high attention and her tail wagging a little, thumping against the counter at least until she noticed and stopped it. However, after a heartbeat, she seemed to deflate a little. “I would love to, but… With me not having a job, it wouldn’t be right to be out and about spending money on stuff I don’t need.” Joseph gave a chuckle and poked her side, making her jump a little. “Listen, Tiana. I know we’ve had this talk before, but really, you don’t have to worry about money anymore. I have enough that none of us have to work. Misha only does it because she can’t stand to be at home all the time,” he told her before setting his mug down. He raised one hand and lightly toyed with her hair, which was still messy from sleep. “I feel that you’d be more comfortable at home, here with the girls and me, so really, you don’t have to get another job,” he told her. “But- but…” she stammered, enjoying his attention while being embarrassed by it none the less. “What would I do all day? I mean-“ He cut her off by kissing her forehead affectionately. “Well it’s a damn big house and our stuff needs to be unpacked, then there’s the mess in the back yard and front yards that are supposed to be gardens. Plus you’re the best cook I’ve ever met,” he told her, smiling when she shifted uncomfortably at the praise, “I’m not saying you turn into a maid or housekeeper, I wouldn’t dare propose that idea, but I am saying that there is a bunch that needs done around the house and I’m certain no one would complain if you cooked often.” She shifted a little, worrying at her lower lip before finishing off her coffee in one big gulp. “Okay. That’s what I’ll do then,” she told him with a fierce nod then she smiled up at him. He smiled right back at her and quickly finished his own coffee. “Good. Now go get ready. We’re going shopping, whether you like it or not… and we both know you’ll like it!” he exclaimed. With a grin, he reached down and slapped her bum, noting two things at once. The first being that he’d angled that perfectly to get her under her shirt, and the second that she wasn’t wearing anything under that shirt. The brief slap of hand on bare rump made the woman jump practically two feet into the air and she immediately tugged down the back of her shirt, looking at him over her shoulder with a look so embarrassed that Joseph could not help but laugh. “Oh good god. Go get ready,” he told her while still chuckling. After she left, he turned his gaze to his hand briefly before getting the two mugs and washing them out at the sink, smiling as he did. Four hours later and Joseph found himself sitting near yet another changing room in yet another shop, waiting once again while Tiana tried on the clothes she’d picked out. He wasn’t bored, per say, but he certainly could think of a half dozen other things he’d rather be doing at that moment. No sooner had he thought of that than the curtain was suddenly brushed aside and there she stood wearing a blue top that was practically a sports bra and a pair of black yoga pants that hugged all the right places. His eyes nearly popped out of his skull at the sight of the thirty year old wolf that looked not a day over eighteen at that moment. Perky B-cup breasts, wide hips, a flat belly, and legs that looked so long despite her 5’1” height. She was certainly sleek and sexy- there was no denying- and damn did this outfit show that to head turning proportions. She gave a brief pose and grinned at the look he was giving her before she asked, “What do you think?” Joseph coughed briefly into his fist and said as calmly as he could muster, “I believe you nearly made my dick shoot off my body.” She blinked then laughed at his blunt comment before turning and posing again, giving him a delightful view of her fine ass, her tail wagging slowly. “Oh really?” she said all sultry before giggling softly and turning back to him. “I was thinking. You know the garage is huge, right? And we’ve got three cars, but we don’t really need all of them in it, you know? So there’ll be plenty of space in there for a home gym! Now that we live on the other side of the city, commuting all the way over to the gym I used to go to is too much of a hassle.” Joseph blinked, imagining the sexy white wolf jogging on a treadmill, getting all hot and sweaty in his- no, their- garage. He liked the idea. “Yea, that sounds cool. I’ll see about arranging to have cable wired out to it so we can mount up a TV or something for you to watch while you run or bike. We’ll need the equipment too, but that won’t be a problem,” he told her, making her jump a little in place and clap her hands, laughing happily before she dashed over and caught him up in a big hug. Jeeze, it was like she had regressed ten years or something- but hey, he wasn’t complaining. After hugging her back, she retreated into the changing room to try on the rest of her pickings. Though he didn’t get to see her in any of the other things she had picked out, Joseph felt content as he paid for the clothes and walked with her back to the car to deposit the purchases into the trunk. This was their third trip back to the car but by the girlish glow in the woman’s eyes, he knew they weren’t even halfway done. At lunch time, he finally called a halt to her shopping frenzy, chuckling when she gave him the saddest puppy dog eyes on the entire planet. Gena had broken him of the look over the time he’d known her, so he was all but immune now. “Don’t worry. We’ll shop more again later. For now, I’m hungry,” he told her and she rubbed her belly absently then. “And you are too, as it would seem. Let’s get something from the food court,” he encouraged and ten minutes later they sat across from each other with food aplenty. With a thick sense of déjà vu, Joseph bit into his McGangbang and chewed thoughtfully as he watched Tiana dig into her salad. The scene was so reminiscent of the last time he’d taken Gena to the mall that he absently looked over at the TV’s, morbidly wondering if there’d be a tragic story of death on the news like last time. Only small news about a kidnapping greeted him and he looked away as they were describing the young Chinchilla girl that had been taken. Like most of the world, he just didn’t care unless it was one of his girls, and since it wasn’t, his attention fell fully on the woman across from him. “You know,” he told her after he swallowed, “I met Misha and Athaisce on a day much like this.” When she looked up from her salad, he nodded, “Yeah. I’d taken Gena to the mall as an apology for getting us rained on at the park- it’s a long story for another time. But yeah, we sat here and ate and there was a news story about the bombing up in Boston. I know right?” He shook his head, “I don’t get some people. But anyway, yeah. We were eating the exact same things, I kid you not, then we went over to Amberdombies and Gena went to try on some clothes and over by the changing room is where we met them.” She laughed a little and asked if that was true. Joseph nodded, “Totally. It was interesting. They’ve been in our lives ever since.” He smiled to himself before finishing off his frankenburger disaster and wiping his mouth. “What say you we head home? That way you can have plenty of time to put away your new clothes before the girls get home from school. I’ll make calls regarding the in home gym as well,” he told her and she nodded, quickly finishing off her salad before they dumped their trash in a can. After getting home and making all the necessary calls, which had taken longer than he’d really expected, he came out of his room to find the girls already home. Just as he’d worried, Athaisce was behind in class, but instead of having to enforcing a study time for her, she came to him and asked him to help her. He couldn’t help but smile and nod before sitting down with her in the den. It was math homework and man did he just love math... He found himself absolutely hating her math teacher as he showed her just which formulas to use for each problem, wondering why a fifth grader was already learning this particular junk. Gena eventually joined them, taking out her own homework, but the brilliant little girl had no issues and finished quickly before helping him out with Athaisce- thank heaven. Joseph just wasn’t cut out to be a teacher, so he welcomed the genius. Together the three of them finished up the bobcat girl’s homework as well as worked on some things that she’d be taught soon. By this time, Tiana called from the kitchen that dinner was ready and the cheer they gave was nothing short of joyous. What awaited them was a delightful meal of ginger chicken and rice with sweet tea to drink. The compliments flew freely from half stuffed mouths, making the Arctic Wolf beam with pleasure before reminding them of their manners like a true mother would. After dinner, Joseph joined Tiana in the kitchen for clean up while the girls bathed. Tiana cleaned the dishes then Joseph rinsed and dried them before putting them away. “So, I got all the calls done,” he told her, “They won’t be able to run cable and stuff to the garage till Thursday, but the equipment will arrive on Wednesday.” She smiled happily at that, her tail wagging and he had the feeling that if her hands weren’t wet, she’d have hugged him. She had been a little put off by all the affection they all gave her at first, but had warmed up to it and now she had grown just as touchy feely as they. “Let’s watch a movie after the girls head to bed, what do you say?” he asked her, looking over at her with a smile as he put away the last dish. She drained the sink before drying her hands, nodding and saying she liked the idea. With that, the two of them went into the den to find that the girls had changed into pajamas and were playing Tario Party 13, getting fiercely competitive. With a smile, Joseph suggested they all play and soon the four of them were having quite the blast. After they finished their game, it was late enough that the girls should have been in bed earlier. “Alright, you epic party monsters,” he told them, “Time for bed.” He and Tiana tucked the two of them into bed in their own rooms before returning to the living room. “If I’d known that game was so fun, I’d have bought it a long time ago,” she told him as plopped down on the couch, still wearing her tight jeans and light peach blouse that she’d gone shopping in earlier in the day. “Yeah well, you’ve missed out on a lot of fun stuff by having a job,” he told her, saying those last two words with thick, comical disdain. She laughed and pawed the air at him, telling him that it was an adult’s responsibility to work. “True, but now you don’t gotta worry about that, remember?” He smiled at her and gestured to her clothes. “Why don’t we change then meet back here for the movie?” he suggested, “Cause honestly, if I’ma sit in one place for a long while, I want to be as comfy as possible.” She nodded at that and stood. Joseph retreated to his room and changed into an oversized brown t-shirt with a wicked awesome druid face on the front as well as a pair of black pajama pants. After that he returned to the living room to find her waiting for him, wearing a large t-shirt herself but no visible evidence of anything else. He tried not to think about it as he pulled up Betflax on his game console, looking through the available movies. “What do you want to watch?” he asked her and was surprised when she requested something black and white and samurai. “Where have you been all my life?” he asked, gazing at her with adoration which made her shift a little and blush. Putting on The Blind Samurai, Joseph settled into the couch to watch; only slightly surprised when she cuddled up against his side. “Sorry… I just like to watch movies like this,” she told him without looking up at him, making one of his eyebrows twitch. Instead of saying anything however, he simply wrapped an arm around her and held her close to him while they watched. It was about halfway through the film when he felt something that drew his gaze down to his thigh. His eyes rounded when he saw it was her hand on him. He couldn’t see her face, so he wasn’t sure if it was on purpose, so he turned his attention back to the movie, trying to ignore the warmth that seeped through his pajama pants. What he couldn’t ignore was when she started to lightly stroke his thigh and when she turned her head and nuzzled his chest. The nuzzling was brief though and she turned her attention back to the movie, though her rubbing didn’t stop. Not sure what to do, he gently stroked her upper arm with the hand of the arm he had around her, her fur warm and soft to his touch. She settled more against him, and he found the press of her weight relaxing, though that did nothing to stop the growing erection he was sporting. He had thought he’d trained himself not to react to her little actions, but this was so very different from her normal behavior. He really, really hoped she wouldn’t notice the tent in his boxers as they watched the film. When he felt her stop rubbing his thigh and tense up a little, he knew she’d noticed. He held his breath, hoping it hadn’t insulted her, but then she shifted a little, rubbed her legs together and settled back into rubbing his thigh nice and slow. He had no idea what to think, but since she hadn’t made a scene, nor advanced on him, he did his best to focus on the movie. What he didn’t know is that she spent the last half of the film starring covertly at the obvious sign of his arousal, chewing on her lower lip. The film ended a bit after that and when it did, she sat up and stretched her arms over her head while arching her back. Her breasts pushed against her top delightfully and her hard nipples were very obvious against the thin fabric. She hummed softly as she dropped her arms afterwards, looking over at him as he turned off the console. “I think I’m going to head to bed. I gotta get up early if I wanna make any headway into cleaning up the gardens,” she told him before she stood, smiling at him. “Thanks for today, Joseph. I really appreciate it. All of it,” she said softly before dipping down and kissing his cheek. The action gave him a view down her top briefly, revealing to him her pink nipples and he drank in the brief sight like a man dying of thirst. After that she left, heading for her room, leaving him sitting there with a hard on that could punch holes in steal and yet another image in his head to color his dreams. “Good god,” he breathed after a bit, realizing he’d been holding his breath. He stood after a bit and retreated to his room, closing the door before striping off his pajama pants and shirt. Crawling into his soft bed, he realized how tired he was and was out like a light the second his head hit the pillow. What was a brief instant for him was actually around twenty minutes, but he found himself cursing sleepily anyways as he woke up at the feel of someone climbing into bed with him. “Gena, go sleep in your own bed,” he mumbled softly, “I can’t make love to you tonight. Too much shopping.” “Gena is in her own bed,” came a soft reply that was colored with amusement as well as embarrassment. That woke him right up and he reached for the bedside lamp before a pair of hands stopped him. “No no. Leave the light off. I just… I don’t want to sleep alone tonight, you know?” she said softly before climbing under the covers with him. “Tiana… I don’t think that’s a good idea,” he said softly but he felt her snuggle up against his side, clothed, and nuzzle the soft fur on his chest. “I forgot how comfy it is to snuggle up to someone,” she said quietly, her voice holding a soft sadness that instantly murdered every further protest he had. With a sigh, he relaxed and pulled her even closer, letting her rest her head on his chest before drifting back to sleep. If he hadn’t been so tired, he might not have been able to sleep knowing she was in bed with him. Not because he didn’t like it, but for the exact opposite reason. He liked it, a lot. Nature took its course though, and the two of them fell asleep together like that. Just before the sun rose, Joseph woke up again to a scene that had him hard before he could even figure out what was going on. Tiana was clinging to him, rubbing against him as she ground her very wet, very unclothed pussy against his thigh. He shivered a little and worried on his lower lip as he looked down at her, his rock hard cock pressing against her hip, the little devil having slipped free through the slit of his boxers. He was about to pull her atop him when he realized she was still asleep. He blinked a few times and wondered if he should wake her when she suddenly moaned softly in her sleep, “Oh Loric.” Hearing that name was like a stab to the heart and ego, despite the fact that it should have been obvious she would dream of her late husband. He gently shook her shoulder until she woke up, earning himself a very half asleep look with her hair all sleep tussled that was downright sexy. She seemed to fully wake then and realized quickly what she was doing. She blushed intensely and was off him and off the bed a second later, pushing down the front of her shirt to hide her wet pussy from him while she searched for words to say. Joseph sat up and chuckled softly, “Don’t worry about it, Tiana. I don’t mind. I just figured I should make sure you were awake and knew what you were doing.” That only made her blush more and she shifted uncomfortably before asking, “You… don’t mind?” He nodded at her question then shrugged. “As if the tent in the bed sheets isn’t obvious enough,” he said teasingly, and watched as her eyes locked onto it. He felt his cock twitch, as if she’d physically reached out and touched him. “Look, we’re both adults here, Tiana. I understand that you miss Loric and had a wet dream about him. It’s fine.” She nodded slowly and her hands released the hem of her shirt before she hugged her stomach. “I miss him so much, and not just emotionally either,” she admitted quietly, “It’s been so long. We’d planned that trip so we could have alone time together to… you know.” She blushed again before she continued, “Loric never liked to have sex when Gena was in the house so you can imagine with our work schedules and everything…” She trailed off and her eyes grew sad. Joseph was off the bed before she could say any more, wrapping his arms around her and hugging her close to him. “Hush, sweetie,” he whispered softly, stroking her hair. He didn’t push for her to use him, didn’t suggest it, and didn’t pull her towards the bed. He wanted to, so badly, but he didn’t. As they stood there, embracing each other, his hard cock pressing hotly against her stomach through her shirt- he hadn’t fixed his peek-a-boo cock boxers situation, she eventually looked up at him. She didn’t say anything though, just slid her arms around his neck and pulled him down into a kiss. It started off timid, but since this was the initiative that Joseph had been waiting for her to make, he of course came at her with all the hunger he felt and she nearly instantly responded in kind. As their tongues wrestled, she ground her hips once again against his thigh after it found its way between her legs. His hands trailed down and pulled up the back of her shirt before cupping her firm, tight rear, urging her on until she suddenly broke the kiss. With a crazed look in her eyes, she pushed him back onto the bed before pouncing on him. By the luck of the gods, his hard feline cock met wet wolf pussy and thrust deep inside as she came down atop him. Both of them groaned with sweet pleasure as their hips met, the tip of his cock pressing against places deep inside her untouched for months. When he reached to grab her fine ass, she grabbed his wrists and pinned them down above his head, gazing down at him with eyes lost in a storm of lust, the look matched in his own. The sex was neither gentle nor slow. It was frantic, hard, fast, a meeting of bodies that filled the air with wet slaps as hips met, growls and groans of pleasure to create an erotic symphony. The air around them was dark and charged with pent up sexual energy and when they weren’t kissing hungrily, they gazed into each other’s eyes and panted. She bounced a top him while he thrust up into her, going so fast they couldn’t savor the feel of their union. When Joseph’s cock started to swell in her, she seemed to go even crazier atop him, like she needed his climax like she needed air to breathe. The cry of triumph and ecstasy she gave as he filled her full of his hot, thick seed and threw her into orgasm was one that branded itself into Joseph’s mind as unforgettable. Her shuddering movements above him as her back arched milked every drop of his seed from his cock before she finally collapsed atop him. They panted for breath as she finally let go of his wrists and he wrapped his arms around her, stroking her back soothingly. Without that haze of need, she seemed to come to her senses and she weakly pushed away. “Oh god, oh god, oh god! I’m so sorry! I-I didn’t mean to use you like that! Oh Joseph, I’m so sorry!” she said over and over as she pulled away off his cock and turned to get off the bed. Joseph stopped her though before she could get to far away and pulled her back by her hips, thrusting into her eager pussy from behind, showing her he was still hard and ready to go. While she groaned and gripped the bed sheets, looking at him over her shoulder in wonderment, he started to slowly thrust in and out of her, taking a much gentler pace. “You didn’t use me, honey. Neither did I use you. I have told you before, but I feel I must say so again. I promised Loric I’d take care of you and Gena, and I will. Not because I promised either,” he told her, keeping the pace steady while she worried at her lower lip. “I do it because I care about the two of you. Because I want you two in my life, and because your happiness is my happiness.” “B-but,” she started but stopped when he shook his head. “No buts, unless it’s yours with my cock in it,” he teased playfully, making her give him this disbelieving look. “Just trust me, sweetie, as you always have.” She worried at her lip a little longer, gazing at him for the longest time before finally she nodded and started to move back against him. They had sex in several different ways that morning, only stopping when the girls barged into the room, demanding breakfast like only children could. Tiana had proven to be quite insatiable, just like her daughter, and whenever the girls weren’t in the same room as them, she’d flash her ass at him, or her tits, or rub him through his boxers to keep him hard and aching. By the time Misha returned from her trip two days later, Tiana had truly proved like mother like daughter and had nearly run him ragged. Misha was a mix of happy and jealous when Joseph and Tiana talked to her about it, and that night Joseph found himself treated to both of them at once, nearly turned into a dried out husk as the two women competed over who could do what better than the other. As the years passed and the five of them truly settled into the house, Joseph could not help but count himself the luckiest bastard in the world. Not much changed though, until Gena and Athaisce both brought home their first boyfriends. Joseph saw less and less of the girls after that, as they started going on dates and hanging out with friends outside the home. Soon enough the two of them graduated and went off to college, Joseph himself insisting that they get a higher education than he himself had gotten. The house felt so empty after that, at least until Misha revealed herself to be pregnant, on the eighth year anniversary of when they’d first met. A nearly twenty eight year old Joseph found himself floored to learn he’d become a genuine father, having believed himself impotent until that point. It had been eight years after all, of having unprotected sex practically every night, so he’d had no reason to believe otherwise. Tiana had held a sad look in her eyes when she’d heard the news, but a trip to the doctor’s a week later and she too was pregnant- though her doctor had strongly advised against it with her age. However, nine months later, both children were born into the world healthy and screaming like only babies could. Every holiday, Gena and Athaisce came home from college and the seven of them celebrated up until both Gena and Athaisce moved back in four years later. It had come as a rather large surprise to the then thirty-two Joseph, who was busy playing with the four year old Mickey and Tammy, having fully expected that the two women would move away. He’d embraced the two twenty two year olds with all the love in his heart before arranging their things to be moved back into their rooms. The seven of them lived happily together after that, the years passing by in a blur for Joseph. At the age of sixty four though, the time had finally come for Joseph’s luck to run out. As he lay in the hospital bed of the North Methodist Hospital, he gazed softly at those gathered in the room with him. There were so many, all of them his family, by blood, by love, by bond. As he held onto Tiana’s hand, Misha’s hand on his arm, he smiled up at them and took one last look at his family. Gena had gotten married, had two kids of her own, both of whom had also gotten married and had their own children. Athaisce had a wife and though the two didn’t have children, they could not be any less happy. Tiana had aged beautifully, but knew her time would come for her soon as well. Misha didn’t look a day over fifty but that was common for felines. He smiled tiredly again, not saying a word. He’d left everything to them all, the house, the money, all of it, so he knew there was nothing left he had to do. He loved them all and wished for all the world he could take away the sad looks on their faces, but his time had come, and God wouldn’t wait. With a soft sigh, he settled back into his hospital bed and as his eyes closed, his heart gave way. At sixty-four, Joseph died a happy man surrounded by those he loved.