Gage woke first, Luke's legs tangled with his and Luke’s head tucked under his chin. Luke’s short hair rubbed against his chest as Gage twisted to check the time. Damn, he hadn't slept in to ten in a very long time. His stomach growled, and he realized heI hadn't eaten any dinner the night before. Luke buried his head against Gage’s body as the light from the window hit his face.

"Ugh, what time is it?"

Ah, so Luke wasn't a morning person? A grin stretched Gage’s face and he whipped back the covers, rolling Luke onto his back. "It's time to get up!" he said cheerfully. 

Luke tried to pull a pillow over his face and Gage tossed it off the bed. Luke blinked blearily at him. "You're evil."

Gage leaned down and began sucking a line down Luke’ neck. "Am I evil now?"

"Yes," he gasped, still half-asleep. "The worst."

Gage made his way down Luke’s chest. "And now?"

"Maybe not that awful."

Luke’s back arched and he reached to pull Gage’s head in tighter as Gage swiped his tongue over Luke’s nipple. Then Gage jumped off the bed, grabbed a condom from the side drawer, and headed for the bathroom. "How about now?"

"You're of the devil," Luke groaned.

"I'll make it up to you if you meet me in the shower," Gage tossed over his shoulder. He finger brushed his teeth while the water warmed up and then jumped into the hot steam. He made use of Luke's body wash and after a few minutes, there was a cold draft as Luke entered the room. Gage pulled back the edge of the shower curtain, Luke stepped in and leaned against him. Gage wrapped his arms around Luke and simply held on before Luke’s feet started shuffling to the right, moving Gage out of the flow of water so he could enjoy it. Gage laughed and soaped up his hands to wash Luke. Luke’s eyes stayed closed the entire time, every step a tiny shuffle. 

"Let's turn you around," Gage said, and Luke turned so that the water was hitting his chest. Gage went to work on his shoulders, the soap letting his hands guide smoothly over Luke’s muscles as Gage dug into them, attacking knots and rubbing them away.

"I think I'll keep you," Luke rasped, and Gage leaned forward to nibble on his ears.

"I think I'd like that," Gage responded. He was glad Jess had encouraged him to come the night before. Being with Luke was both energizing and relaxing. As they joked back and forth while driving each other to the edge of passion and over it, Gage’s worries had faded. Worries about Sean. Worries about Luke. And in the clarity of the moment, he'd been able to see what they could be if his insecurities and fears weren't holding him back. Sean had been right about Jess and Cole. Why couldn't he be right about Gage and Luke?

Gage’s hands drifted lower on Luke's back, gliding over his ass and his hips twitched backward at Gage. Luke leaned forward, setting his hands against the shower wall, and the water cascaded down his back. Gage drew a teasing line down Luke’s crack and Luke shivered under his touch. 

"I think I need a morning wake up call," Luke said.

"Oh, like you calling my name over and over in ecstasy?"

"Exactly that kind of morning wake up call."

Gage slid one finger in to prep Luke, but he was still loose from the night before, and so damn wet already. "Was someone having naughty dreams?" Gage teased.

"Mmm. That's why it was so hard to wake up. There was this seriously hot alpha with check hair and eyes and the most open heart and protective soul, but with me, he just did the dirtiest things.”

Gage hurriedly rolled on a condom and lined his cock up at Luke’s entrance. "You're so talkative when you're naked. I like it. Tell me more." He slid in an inch and Luke gasped. Gage’s knot was already swelling under his hand. He hoped Luke was okay with just a quickie this morning.

Luke pushed back, forcing Gage in further. "I love the way you stretch me," he said.

"That's not what you were dreaming about though. Tell me that."

"It was the full moon, and we were running in wolf form, wrestling, playing. We started out with the pack, but took off in a different direction until we couldn't smell them anymore. And then we shifted and you pushed me down to the ground. It was so soft, hears of hemlock needles covering the ground, my hands grasping at tree roots, and you took me in the forest, the moonlight bright enough to peek through the trees and cast shadows. And then we lay locked together, listening to the crickets and the owls, the occasional far-off howl of our pack mates, and you made me come twice more, your knot filling me and your hand on my cock."

Gage reached forward to take Luke’s erect member in hand. "Something like this."

"Yes, please!"

Gage imagined it as Luke had said, with the night forest surrounding them and Gage slid in and out of Luke as hard as he could, Luke’s channel squeezing him tightly, and as Luke came and clenched around him, Luke drew his orgasm out with a shout. Gage pulled him up, burying his head in the crook of Luke’s neck as the last tremors faded. Gage waited for the buzzing in his ears to dissipate and loosened his hold on Luke's chest. 

"Um, hmm," Luke mumbled. He tried to step forward and Gage gasped, not in pleasure, as the movement tugged painfully at his knot, locked inside Luke. "We may not have thought this through, very well," Luke said. 

They turned off the water and performed the most awkward synchronized waddle out of the shower and bathroom and into the bedroom before carefully collapsing. 

"I think we should try to stick to blow jobs in the shower," Gage said, prompting a laugh from Luke. 

"Or something," he agreed. 

"Brunch after a nap?" Gage asked. "I still want to take you out for a real dinner date, but until then, let me feed you anyway."

"That sounds perfect," Luke agreed, and as he drifted to sleep, Gage stretched to grab his phone and set an alarm for an hour. That would give them enough time for his knot to go down. And maybe Gage wouldn't admit it out loud, but that gave him extra time to cuddle the shit out of Luke.