“I thought you were going to miss me?”

“I am! You and that sassy little ass of yours.”

“You like it.”

“I like it,” Ace said, completely unprompted. He leaned back, taking a good look at my perky ass stuffed into a pair of five-inch inseam shorts. “A lot.”

“Wow. You two need to leave,” Sam laughed. “Go back to your little house on the prairie and fuck like rabbits. Please. The rest of us can’t take the chemistry between you two anymore.”

“Sounds like a good idea to me,” I laughed. “See ya later, Sam.”

“You two take care!” he called as we left, knowing full well that we’d be seeing him nearly every other day anyway. Ace and I were always dropping by the hotel with veggies or just to say hello. Sam was family.

Ace’s truck was waiting for us out on the curb. All my stuff fit into the back seat with room to spare. It felt sort of sad to own so little, but at the same time, it was mountains more than what I had when I turned up in Shifter Grove. Besides, Ace lived pretty minimally in a small house. I would’ve felt a lot worse if my stuff was going to overrun his entire home within seconds of my arrival.

“So,” Ace said, turning the engine over. “Dinner?”

“Pizza,” I said without hesitation. “Then take me to the beach.”

“The beach?” He glanced out the window up at the sun that was nearly touching the horizon. “It’s gonna be dark by the time we get there.”

“That’s fine. I just want to let the wolf out for a bit and run.” I reached over, putting my hand on his thigh. “With you.”

“Say no more.” He flashed me a big smile, handing his phone over to me. “You call in the order to Vince, and we’ll head out to the beach after we pick it up.”

“Done and done.”

Thirty minutes later with a hot pizza in hand, Ace and I stepped onto the beach, the whole of Lake Huron stretched out before us. Plopping down in the sand, we began to eat, the sound of the crashing waves filling our ears. Behind us the last golds and pinks of sunset faded away, darkness stretching toward us from the eastern horizon until there was nothing above us but darkness and stars.

“Come on,” I said at last, dropping my crust back into the box. I stood up, peeling off my clothes haphazardly. “Bet you can’t catch me!”

“Is that a challenge?” Ace laughed, taking another bite.

I kicked off my shorts last, standing completely naked in front of him. “Ready, set, go!”

The shift washed over me quickly and I hit the ground on four paws. Ducking down playfully, I gave Ace a small yip and tore off in the opposite direction, heading for the water. I didn’t look back as I ran, focusing instead on diving head-first into the surf. The cold water enveloped me, soaking me down to the skin in an instant. I paddled out a few feet until I hit the sand bar, where the water only came up just past my paws.

I shook myself out and glanced back at where we’d been sitting. There was no sign of Ace. If I squinted, I could just see his hat sitting on the beach. Off to my left, I heard a low grunt, my ears and head swiveling in that direction. I looked up just in time to see a massive black wolf leap over several feet of water, his paws outstretched in my direction. There was a loud thud as he tackled me into the water, the pair of us rolling through the surf.

Pushing myself up, I shook my fur out once more, grunting in Ace’s direction. He was coated in wet sand, but even in wolf form, I could see that smirk on his face. In the past couple of weeks, he’d gotten into the habit of tackling me when we went for runs like this. It never hurt, but he always made sure he took me off my feet. The worst part was, no matter how often he did it, I never saw it coming. The man was ninja-silent in wolf form. It was terrifying.

He must have gotten tired of waiting for me because he sprang forward, tackling me once more into the surf. I kicked him in the belly, getting him off me before I got back to my feet and took off like a bat out of hell. I stayed to the sand bar, the water so shallow it barely covered my paws. Splashing closed in behind me, but I just kept going, knowing he’d catch me eventually. Besides, if I was being honest, I sort of wanted him to.

After he’d taken me out a handful of times, I dove back into the water, heading for the beach. My form shifted back to human, the fur melting away as I stepped out of the water. I glanced back, watching Ace do the same. With a single finger, I beckoned him to follow me. Ducking inside the edge of the woods, I found a fallen tree to perch on as I waited for him. I reached down, stroking my cock, which had already started to thicken. Roughhousing with Ace always got me going.

That’s why, when he stepped inside the woods and saw my hard cock, my hand, and my legs splayed wide, he didn’t even blink. He came over to the fallen tree, knelt down in the sand, and wrapped his soft, warm lips around my stiff rod.

I moaned as he slipped down my cock, his tongue swirling against the underside of my shaft. Letting my hands fall to the side, I leaned my hips forward, driving my cock further down his throat. He opened his throat eagerly, taking me down to the hilt as he grasped my balls, giving them a firm but gentle downward tug. I moaned louder, the heat of his mouth driving me crazy. He always knew just what to do to get me going. After all, he’d had plenty of practice.

But we both knew I wanted more than that. He sucked and slurped, milking the precum from my hard cock. With every bob of his head, he pushed me closer to the edge. But just as I was about to push him away, he pulled back himself, my cock flopping out of his mouth with a small pop. Without a word, he flipped me over, my legs splayed wide with my chest resting on the log. He reached up, spreading my ass cheeks wide, and dove in face first.

A much louder moan left my lips, growing in intensity as he tongue fucked my needy hole. His fingers dug into the flesh of my ass cheeks, pulling them apart as his tongue flicked across my tight entrance. He’d start at my balls, dragging his tongue all the way to my tailbone before diving back in. Each return to my hole saw more and more pressure until the tip of his tongue slid inside, filling my body with sparks of pleasure.

“Please,” I begged, breathless after less than a handful of minutes of that pleasurable torture. “Please fuck me.”

Ace hummed happily against my ass. “Anything you say, beautiful.”

He pulled away from me for only a moment to get to his feet. A second or two later, I felt the hot pulsing tip of his cock press against my hole. He grabbed it by the base, milking his thick precum out onto my ass. We didn’t need lube with his cock around. He produced plenty of his own. With a few short strokes, he had me ready to go. Then he rocked his hips forward, the thick head of his cock pressing inside me.