A Shifter's Healing Love

by T. Cobbin

  “Good evening, sweetheart.”

  “Evening.” Danielle’s voice was hoarse, sexy sounding.

  “How are you feeling?” he asked, stepping into the shower.

  Danielle looked down and laughed. “Besides you entering my shower with shorts on, I actually feel great.”

  Leo looked down at himself and laughed. With a quick push down his hips, and a kick into the corner, his shorts lay in a forgotten pool.

  Leo reached for his mate, as Danielle curled her arms around his neck. They kissed like they’d been apart for years.

  “I missed you,” Leo said, pulling his mate closer to his body.

  “I could say I’ve missed you, but it was only last night when you gave me the best orgasm yet.”

  “The best one, huh? Well, maybe we should see if I can improve on it.” Leo hoisted his mate up and ran a finger through her soft folds. It pleased him to find her wet and ready.

  He looked down between them and watched his cock disappear into Danielle’s welcoming body. Danielle’s head fell back against the wall behind her, and Leo took the opportunity to kiss her everywhere he could. Her neck, her chin, her jawline, her lips. He lifted her and dropped. His dick feeling Danielle’s tight, rippling walls.

  “Oh Goddess, I missed you.” He licked down his mate’s body to her perky breasts. Taking one of her nipples into his mouth, he rolled the stiff bud between his tongue and the roof of his mouth, relishing the taste of his mate.

  “More…please,” Danielle pleaded.

  Stepping forward, Leo pressed Danielle’s back against the shower wall. With her legs tightly fastened around his waist, he placed a hand against the wall on one side of her head and the other he cupped under her backside. He thrust a little harder inside her. Her satisfied groans and moans were like music to his ears. He could feel her walls rippling that little bit more, and he could tell she was close to orgasming. He impaled her harder, pulled out to the tip of his cock, and jutted into her again. He picked up his pace, wanting to finish at the same time she did. This was a quick fucking, they had the rest of their lives to love slowly. He ravished his mate. His balls drew up, his orgasm building at the base of his spine.

  “Leo!” His name echoed off the shower walls, her fingernails raking across his skin.

  He propelled into his mate one final time and released his seed into her body. With the yellow ring around her irises, he knew Danielle’s gorilla was waiting inside her. She was a shifter now, and with each time he placed his seed inside her body, there was a chance their infant would be created. His cock twitched at that thought. His gorilla beat on his chest inside Leo’s mind.

  * * * *

  A little while later, after a slower bout of loving, they both laid in bed, their limbs entwined.

  “Why was Ollie lying next to me when I woke?” Danielle raised her head from his chest to ask. Leo couldn’t help but smile a little seeing the yellow ring around her irises.

  “He got himself into a little tizzy last night. He missed you. So, I brought him up to see you, and he fell asleep here.”

  “Aww, my poor little lamb.” Danielle rolled over and quickly got out of bed.

  “Hey, where are you going?” Leo asked as she grabbed a silk dressing gown he’d brought her and put it on.

  “To see the children.” She was halfway across the bedroom before Leo jumped up from the bed and followed her.

  “Put your dressing gown on,” she hissed, seeing him naked.

  He hadn’t thought about putting something on, he was too amused watching Danielle move as fast as he did. He shrugged and stepped back to pick up his own dressing gown and put it on. Danielle was already down the hallway and entering her son’s bedroom by the time Leo was dressed. Did she realize how fast she moved now? His gorilla hooted inside his mind, wanting to meet his mate.

  Leo stood in the bedroom doorway and watched Danielle kiss her son on his forehead and tug his loose covers around him. She turned and walked toward him, past him, and down the hallway one door to Gracie’s room. He watched her do the same to the little girl before walking out of her room and closing the door.

  “Do I move faster?” she asked, amused. “It feels like I do at times. It’s a weird sensation.”

  “You do. You should also be able to hear more.”

  Danielle stood still and closed her eyes. He could almost see her ears twitching as she listened to everything around her. Leo could hear the clock ticking in the hallway and the flames in the sitting room fireplace crackle and pop. He could also hear, very quietly in the distance, the waves hitting the rocks around the island.

  “That is so awesome.” Danielle smiled and opened her sparkling eyes.

  “Want to meet your counter-part?”

  “Umm, sure?” The look on her face told him otherwise.

  “You don’t?” Leo asked, fearing she already regretted the decision to become a shifter.

  “It’s not that. I fear not being able to shift, or the shift hurting. Seeing you shift, you made it look easy, but Prue said it could hurt the first time. I can feel her inside me. She’s anxious to meet her silverback. She pushes against my skin, trying to get out. I have to grit my teeth and ask her to wait. And now that you’ve asked, she is trying again, only harder.”

  Leo watched Danielle’s jaw muscles tighten. Grabbing her hand, he pulled her down the main stairs. He stood with her in the hallway and listened to the house. Satisfied he could hear only the faint snoring and calm heartbeats of both the children and adults, he pulled on Danielle’s dressing gown belt.

  Danielle snatched hold of his hand. “Hey, what are you doing?” she whispered.

  Leo turned her back toward his chest. In front of them stood the huge mirror. “Showing you what your inner beast looks like.”

  Wrapping his arms around Danielle’s waist, Leo tugged once again on her dressing gown belt. His mate didn’t stop him this time. Slowly, he slid her dressing gown from her shoulders, and allowed it to drop at her feet. Danielle quickly moved her hands to cover her stomach up.

  “Oh, no you don’t.” He smirked and pulled her arms down to her sides. “You are beautiful and all mine.” He kissed below her ear and felt a shiver run through her body.

  “Leo.” She whispered his name, the word sounding like a denial.

  “Listen, this might hurt the first time, but afterward, when you shift, you will hardly feel a thing.”

  Danielle’s worried reflection peered up at him.

  “I’m here with you,” he assured her.

  A small smile lifted the edges of her bow-shaped lips before she stared back into the mirror.

  He kissed below her ear then said, “Now close your eyes.” He watched her close her eyes, then he edged back a step. “Can you see your beast in your mind?”

  “Yes, she is practically dancing on her back legs with excitement.”

  Leo chuckled. His beast was doing the same thing. “Imagine taking a step backward behind your gorilla. Allow her to step forward and take over.”

  Leo watched thick, coarse fur began to slip through Danielle’s skin. Her head, legs, arms, and body began to take on a different shape. Finally, after a long wait, a female gorilla stood admiring herself in the hallway mirror.

  Her lips pursed, then shaped into an O. Her amber eyes held amusement and astonishment in them. After swinging her arms back and forth Danielle’s gorilla stepped back, then forward as she tested her limbs. Leo tugged at his own dressing gown belt and slid his gown off his shoulders before allowing his silverback to take over. His shift was smoother and faster than Danielle’s being he’d done it for many years. Danielle’s gorilla spun on the spot, nearly falling. She caught herself and stood on her hind legs, staring up at Leo’s other half.

  For the next few hours, Leo and Danielle’s gorillas mated, and had fun in the snow. They ran until their lungs couldn’t take any more, they mated until they were fully sated. Finally, they both shifted back to their human form and sat in front of the si
tting room’s roaring fire.

  “I can’t believe how awesome it is to have another side to yourself. I’ve only seen gorillas in the zoo or on the television. To be able to live as one and still know it’s me that has the control is…great. But I can see why you guys keep it a secret. The extra healing, the enhanced senses, the swiftness in which you…we move. But also humans would never understand. They’d be scared.”

  Leo placed a kiss on his mate’s forehead. “I love you, Danielle Knight. I’m glad you found this island, but more so that I found you. I can’t wait to have more infants with you.”

  Danielle turned her head to look up at him. “Me too. You’d better get started on building extensions to the house. I’m sure your parents will need their space too.”

  Leo knew he had a confused look on his face. “My parents?” He thought that they’d go back on their holidays again. “Why would they need space?”

  “Because from what your mother said, she will want to spend a whole lot more time here with us. She said she doesn’t want to miss any more time with her family.”

  Oh Goddess. He hadn’t thought of that. His mother had always wanted more infants but nature had deemed that a no. Now she could have fun with her grandchildren, and have them running around like loons.

  “At least my father will help me,” he said. “He hated leaving the island, but he went wherever my mother took him. She disliked being on the island without more family.”

  “Well, now they will have it.”

  “As long as you are with me, sweetheart, I’m game for whatever comes along.”

  “And now that you have rid us of Vance, I have no reason to run. I love you, Leo. Thank you for giving me a life I could only have dreamed of.”

  “I’ve been meaning to ask. Now that Vance is dead and you don’t have to fear being found, do you want to revert back to using the name Violet?”

  Danielle thought about that for only a second. “No, he killed her off. She died in that room. Danielle is stronger, more adventurous. Mmm, more of a horndog.” She giggled, placing a kiss on his lips.

  “My horndog,” Leo growled and kissed her back. He pulled back when something crossed his mind. “Umm, I do foresee a problem in the future though.”

  Danielle looked confused before realization crossed her face. “Oh.”

  “Yes, oh. Ollie and Gracie.”

  Danielle blew out a breath then went back to staring into the fire. “There is also the fact Ollie might or might not be a shifter.”

  Leo squeezed Danielle closer to him. “It’s a parent’s life for us.”

  “Together, we will beat whatever comes around,” Danielle said, looking toward him again. The ring around her irises told him she was a shifter, but to him it was like a wedding ring. His and hers.

  “Together,” Leo said gladly.

  He had left the island because it had become barren and boring. But now, with his mate in his arms, his parents returning home, his children and Prue, Leo realized he had fallen in love with the damn island again.

  It was a home once more.

  About T. Cobbin

  Trish Cobbin started to write books as an escape, but she took a break when she became a full-time mother to three children. Once her children were grown and flew the coop, expanding their own families and giving her three wonderful grandchildren, she was left with some spare time and decided to put pen to paper again. She lives in the UK with her faithful dogs Jellybean and Puddin’, and her youngest son, and a door that is never closed to family.

  T. Cobbin’s Website:

  www.tcobbin.co.uk

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