It has been 6 months since Matthew got dispatched by his former employer.
The 23 year old black wolf quite liked his temporary new home overseas. He always has been one to easily adapt to new surroundings. That is why he volunteered in the first place.
However, the economic crisis also had an impact on his employer. After only a month working abroad, he received a phone-call explaining that his -now former- employer went bankrupt and that he was out of a job.
He was offered a plane ticket back home on the first available flight.
But since the wolf still lived with his folks back home, and because he quite liked to finally be independent, well out of reach of his parents' mockery and patronizing, he decided to decline the offer. He only asked for a deposit of a reasonable amount of money on his bank account so he could buy a ticket on a later date himself. He preferred to stay for as long as his work visa permitted him, and see if he could scrape together a living.
After only a few weeks he managed to find a job as a trucker delivering large goods. The wage wasn't that great, but it enabled him to enjoy one of his passions, driving a big-rig.

“Phew”, Matthew sighed as he got on an on-ramp to the interstate for the final time that day. He pressed down on the clutch and changed from 7th to 8th gear. A shiver went down the lupine’s spine when he heard the deep grunt of the 10 liter V8 diesel revving up, and the loud whistling of the turbo-charger kicking in as the thirty ton combination came up to speed.
His eyes quickly glanced over his terminal. “500 Kilometers today, that does not happen very often”, he contently said to himself.
His right index-digit flicked the cruise-control switch. After the “Cruise” LED indicator on the instrument panel lit up, the wolf eased his right leg off of the accelerator. He comfortably leaned back into the truck's big captain seat and turned on the sound system.

It was getting dark when Matthew returned to his employer's site. After decoupling the trailer he went inside the office to take care of some administrative tasks.
While sat behind the computer, he felt a tap on his shoulder.
“Heya Matt! Did you like your route today? I thought you'd like a longer one. Specially since you  have this new Peterbuilt under your arse now!”
Matthew turned his head and saw a German Shepherd standing behind him. “Oh hey, David. Yeah, it was very nice I have to admit”.
David was the planner and the one that basically got Matthew the job four months ago.
“OK, great! I need you to do a two day long run this Monday and Tuesday. Feel up for it?”
“Sure thing”, Matthew eagerly replied. “It'll give me a chance to try out this comfy bed  in the sleeper.”
With a grin, the German shepherd patted Matt on the shoulder, “Ok mate. I'm off upstairs again, I have some more things to take care of. I'll make sure all the details are on your truck's terminal by Monday. You enjoy your weekend!”
Matthew smiled, wished David a good weekend as well, and finished the administrative tasks. He shut off the computer and walked to his truck to retrieve his weekend-bag. After making sure everything was properly locked and turned off, he walked off the compound.

The wolf inhaled the cool evening air deeply. He loved the ten minute walk back to the apartment complex where he was staying. After a long day of driving, the leg-stretch felt wonderful and was just what the doctor ordered.
He made his way though the front gate, which was ornamented by a gold-plated sign saying “The Lion's Den”. After entering through the front door, he walked into the lobby.
“Hey, there's our Trucker-wolf!”. “'Evening, Misha, and how are our guests today?”, Matthew said with a smirk across his muzzle.
“Oh, you silly wolf.”, the lioness smirked back from behind a reception desk.

The apartment complex Matthew had a room is used to be a Hotel. The previous owner died of a heart-attack. Misha, being the daughter and only off-spring, inherited the complex and decided to rent out the rooms as small short-term apartments.  

Matthew threw his black jacket over the back-rest of one of the lush sofas, and sat himself down with a long and deep sigh.
Misha chuckled and leaned over the desk “Well, someone is in need of a bit of weekend!”
The wolf stretched his arms, popping a few joints “I can't even tell you how much that is true. I am going to grab some food, shower and go to bed in a few minutes.”
“Ehh... Well... Something has come up, I am afraid. There has been a little mishap in your apartment”, Misha said while twiddling a digit on the wooden desk.
The wolf grumbled “Bah. I am exhausted, Misha. Please don't tell me that I can't enjoy the bliss of my soft and warm bed now I need it the most!”
“I am very sorry, Matthew. The waterline running under the floor there burst open. It's a huge mess now as I've instantly put a contractor on it to repair it.”
Matthew stood up and walked to the lioness “I see the Queen already took care of everything apparently”. Misha laughed and gave Matthew a playful push against his shoulder “Yes, of course, what would you expect. I am the regent here!”
“Well ok. You know what i'll do? I'll ring David and ask if there's a problem with me sleeping in the truck's sleeper-cab this weekend.”, Matthew replied while reaching for his phone.
“Just wait a bit with that, Matty. This isn't your fault. Lets go upstairs and have a chat with the folks. I am sure we can come up with something.” The lioness stored away a few books and gestured the wolf to join her. “Come, lets head up-stairs. Perhaps the lads have a few cold beers left in the fridge for you to enjoy”.
Matthew and Misha both made their way up the staircase to the first floor.

The hotel only had a downstairs and two floors, both with 10 rooms and one common area. Almost all the rooms were occupied. Mostly characters like Matthew, sent off by work for some project. Most of them stayed for a few weeks until their employers' project came to an end. A few other rooms were used as storage rooms and could be leased.
Three of the rentees were more permanent.  
Joe, who's a 30 year old tiger. He ended up in The Lion's Den after his home was disintegrated by a tornado.  Lina, a 22 year old cheetah and a friend of Misha who quit her job to go back to university.  The last one was Carl, a 26 year old Rough collie. He has basically lived in The Lion's Den ever since Misha inherited it. Carl used to be the janitor of the Hotel for roughly six years, and a good friend of Misha and her dad. The lioness actually asked him to stay, and offered him a free room if he would continue to look after the building.
These three all had their apartments on the first floor, where Matthew rented his as well. The left over 5 rooms were storage. The second floor was for the less permanent tenants.
Ever since Matthew took his room there, they accepted the wolf into their group, and treated him as kin, making him feel right at home.

“Oh no! It's the big bad wolf! All hide!”, Joe thundered with his deep voice. “Oh shush, you big Pussy” Matthew sneered in the tiger's direction. Joe chuckled and stood up “I need some more beer. Care for a cold one too, Matty?”, he asked as he made his way to the fridge. “Oh yes. That would be excellent”, Matthew answered as he sat down. The tiger took out two bottles, placed them in both corners of his maw, and took the caps off almost effortlessly.
“Argh! Stop doing that, you silly!”, Lina yelled. “One of these days you'll break your fangs.”
Joe mumbled something under his breath while he walked back and gave the wolf the beer.



Matthew leaned back with his eyes closed, savoring the cold, bitter-sweet liquid in his maw.
“Matt, you look exhausted”, the wolf heard right next to him.
He lowered the bottle and placed it on the soda's armrest. Matthew opened his eyes and looked to his left, where the familiar voice was coming from. “Hey Carl.” The wolf's eyes briefly met those of the collie. Matthew took another sip of beer and looked away.  “Yeah, today has been pretty long and exhausting. But the drive was awesome”.  
“How can it NOT be awesome, driving this beast of a truck?” Joe said with a grin on his muzzle, “Peterbuilt, isn't it?” “Yes. David trusted me with this machine. It is totally awesome”.
“OK folks... We need to address a little issue here”, Misha interrupted, “I am afraid we have a tired wolf here who temporarily is without a place to sleep. Carl, was there any progress today?”
“The guys had to take out the entire floor. The water damage is quite extensive I'm afraid.” the collie answered. “We're looking at a week at least before this'll be solved”.  
Matthew sighed and took another long gulp of beer.
Misha grumbled, “Just what we need. But OK, little can be done about this. Better that they take their time and make sure to repair it properly, than do some half-arsed job.”
“Yeah, I had a good chat with the foreman, and he really takes a thorough approach”, Carl said.
“So”, the lioness continued “Anyone here who can offer some space for Matthew here?”
The group looked at each other for a few moments before Joe spoke up “You are more than welcome to stay with any of us during the construction work in your den, Matty.” The others nodded in agreement.
“Though Carls' apartment is right next to the storage room where I put your stuff in, and it has an extra room for your belongings”, Misha noted. “Sorry for this, but the construction workers were going to make a huge mess”.
Carl smiled “You're more than welcome, Matthew, if you like.”
The wolf looked at his beer bottle “I don't know what to answer”, he muttered softly “I mean, I am absolutely fine with calling David and ask if I can sleep in the truck, you know. It is very comfortable and spacious. There is no need for any of you to put up with me 'cause of this”   
Matthew suddenly felt a paw on his arm. As he looked up from glancing over the label of his beer bottle for the tenth time, he saw the brown colored fur of Carl's paw on his black fur.
“We don't want to hear any of that, Matt. You're our friend here”, Matthew heard a reassuring voice say. He looked up and into the collie's eyes for a few seconds.
“Well, seems like things are arranged then!”, Lina exclaimed with a smile “OK, folks, this kitty needs her beauty sleep now. You guys have a good night” the cheetah said while gracefully walking off. “Later, good night!”, the others yelled. Misha also wished everyone a good night, and went back downstairs.
“Well, if you're all gonna go away suddenly, I'ma head out to town for a bit and grab some more beer from the seven-eleven. I am running low on stock!” Joe exclaimed “There are a few more beers left in the fridge, Matthew, Feel free to have another one. You too, Carl. Seeya guys.”

Shortly after Joe left, Matthew stood up “I'm going to have one more. Would you like one too, Carl?”
“Nah, I am fine, wolf... Thanks”, the collie smiled “I think I'm headed off to my apartment as well “Care to join me? Just take your beer with ya.”

Matthew followed the collie to his apartment. “We'll just leave your stuff in that storage room tonight. We can take care of that tomorrow, if that's fine with you?”
“No, no problem at all”, the wolf replied.
They both entered Carl's apartment and the collie pointed to a comfortable chair “Here, have a sit while I clean up some stuff”.



Matthew followed the kind request and took a sip from his new beer while Carl started to clean away some clean laundry “Sorry, wolf. I am not the most organized type in here”, he excused himself. “Say Carl. Come to think of it. My bed, is it also in the storage room?”
“I am afraid so, yes. It's being used as a dust-free platform for your things. But I've a king-sized bed, more than enough room for the both of us to sleep in comfort without bothering each other”, Carl said with a smile.
“I er... Uhh... Uhmm....”, Matthew stumbled, feeling uneasy after what Carl just said.
“Come on, some big fierce wolf YOU are”, the collie teased.
Matthew tried to smile a little bit, but ended up looking to the label on his bottle of beer again. There was little left of the big bad wolf he tried to be indeed, as the whole situation he found himself in left him feeling particularly uneasy.

Matthew, as a wolf-cub, never really received the kind of love and warmth cubs need in their early years. His parents, both Arctic Wolves, were hardliners. Rarely did they show any affection towards    
Matthew, or each other. The young wolf yearned for warmth and safety, reassurance, and all other things the fellow cubs all seemed to get.
He grew up through his teens fantasizing in his bed at night how he'd love to run away, find himself somewhere, some place where he could get what he missed so much. What he longed for so much. But a black wolf in his late teens wanting to receive motherly or fatherly love like a cub? Matthew told himself to just suck it up and forget it. He would never be able to get that wish fulfilled.  
But ever since he got to know Carl, he sensed something about him. There was this look in his eyes. The way Carl talked to him. Just how the collie was around him in general which sparked this emotion in Matthew, despite only being three years older than the wolf.

“Well let me put it like this. Whenever you feel me crawling all over you, just punch me, ok wolf?”, the collie remarked with a grin across his muzzle as he finished the pile of laundry.
“Phew, there. Now it at least looks somewhat decent!” Carl said as he sat down as well.
The wolf took another sip of his beer.
“Well, what do you think, Matt? We can stay up and chat for a bit more if you'd like. But to be honest, I'd prefer to turn in. And you -really- look pretty exhausted.”.
“Uh. Yeah, I am”, Matthew agreed.
“Ok then! Let me show you the bedroom. Just follow me”.

Carl stood up and walked into a small hallway with four doors, two on either side. Matthew took the last sip of his beer, and followed.
“Your apartment is quite big compared to mine, Carl”.
“Uh yeah. This used to be my office more or less, back when I was the janitor. Misha told that I could live in here after she got this place from her late dad.”
Carl's bedroom was quite spacious. Roughly five by five meters. In the back, on the other side of the entrance, a doorway lead to an on-suite bathroom with a shower and toilet.
“Damn, my little room almost fits twice in here!”, Matthew exclaimed “And there are more rooms too.”
“I still am the technical woof here, Matty. I have to pile my tools up somewhere!”, he heard coming from the bathroom.
Matthew sat down on the huge bed. He was a bit less nervous about the thought of sleeping with Carl in one bed. He still felt uneasy though.
He heard water running as Carl brushed his fangs and blankly stared at the wall. “Why am I so worried and nervous”, echoed through the wolf's mind.  “I'm so tired, I'll probably be out in a moment, I can barely think straight”, he assured himself. The running water stopped. Carl stepped out of the bathroom “There. All shiny and fresh again! Your turn, wolf!”
Matthew stood up and turned around to walk to the bathroom. He stopped dead in his tracks as he saw Carl.
The collie stood quite tall. A little bit taller than the 195 cm Matthew was.
A big bushy brown and white-furred tail,  his coat was  long and lush along the sides and back, which changed into soft, thick, and bushy white fluff on his chest, stomach and the insides of his thighs.
The collie waved his paw up and down in front of the wolf's face a few times in a joking way. “Hello, someone at home in there?”, he smirked. “Oh wolf. That look on your face... First time you see another male without clothes? You never sleep without clothes on? I always do.”
“Er. No. I just erm, uh... always sleep in my boxers” Matthew stumbled.
“Well, sleep however you prefer, wolf, I just prefer my bits to have some freedom and air at night at least, as they are all tucked away during the entire day”, Carl remarked with a grin.
“Oh, by the way, there's a new tooth-brush in the cupboard above the sink, Matthew. Just take that one.”
Matthew nodded and absentmindedly padded off into the bathroom to get ready for the night.

After he finished and walked back into the bedroom, he saw that Carl already was in bed and reading a print-out.
Matthew walked to the other side of the bed and took off his shirt and jeans.
Carl looked up from the document at Matthew. “Wow. You really are black -all over-, aren't you? I'd be wise to be careful if I'd have to go to the toilet tonight, in case you'd be doing the same! We would bump into each other.” He focused back on the print-out.
“This is the estimate from the contractor who I hired to fix the mess in your apartment. Misha is NOT going to be pleased”, Carl sighed “The wooden surface planks are a complete write off of course. What's worse, is that they've found a wide crack in the underlaying cement floor where the water seeped in. Everything has to be taken out all the way down to the bare concrete, and re-poured.”
Matthew carefully sat down on the edge of the bed “Oh, just perfect. Means I'll be without my own apartment for longer than was expected then”, the lupine sighed while he slowly reclined.
“Most likely, yes. We'll have a chat with Misha about this tomorrow, OK? Maybe there's another apartment available for the time being.” Carl put the print down on the wooden surface next to him and sprawled out with a big yawn. “Well, sleep tight, Matt” he said and turned the lights off.
“Thanks, Carl. You too. catch you in the morning”, the black wolf yawned back as he crawled under the blankets. He stared into the darkness pondering recent events. It didn't take very long before sleep got the better of him though, and the wolf drifted off.

It must have been 04:00 when Matthew's full bladder woke him up. He tried to postpone it for a few minutes until the feeling got unbearable.
The wolf grunted, instinctively reaching to his left for the light switch. All confused and sleep-drunk, he wondered why he was pawwing around in an empty void. After a few seconds like that, the realization that he was in Carl's bed and not in his own woke him up completely. He carefully sat upright and moved his feet out from underneath the blankets. Before standing up, he made sure that his movements would not wake the collie up. In the dim light of an outside lamppost, he could just about make out the contours of Carl. All seemed just fine.
Slowly he stood up, and tip-toed to the bathroom. He closed the door softly before flicking on the light. He staggered to the toilet while squeezing his eyelids because of the sudden bright light. The wolf didn't at all  feel like pulling back his sheath entirely so he could point his sensitive shaft in a downward angle. In stead, he just sat down and lazily pointed it under the toilet's rim.
After doing his business, he stood up, turned off the light and opened the door only to find that Carl was awake, and had turned on the lights in the bedroom.
“Sorry. I tried to be as quiet as I possibly could be”, the wolf excused himself.
The collie yawned wide and sleepily replied “I am a light sleeper. Even a whisper tends to wake me up. No worries there.”
As Matthew made his way back to bed, Carl took his turn for a bathroom visit.
Carl made his way back into bed and switched the lights off. It wasn't long before both were back asleep.
It was dawn when Matthew suddenly woke up, because he felt something awkward.
He looked at his left arm. His eyes slowly followed it as it extended from the left side of his flank, across the mattress, and onto the other half of the bed. It continued further left all the way until his eyes met the wrist.
Rather baffled, Matthew discovered that behind the wrist, his left paw disappeared under the brown fur of Carls' right paw, which held it tight and snug against the collie's right half of his chest.
Carl, who was woken up a bit earlier by adventurous exploitations of the lupine's left paw was very amused as he noticed how the wolf slowly gained awareness of the situation.
“It seems we have a defector here! I think I'll keep it as mine from now on”, the collie said, while tightening the trip on Matthew's paw slightly. He tried to keep himself from laughing.

The poor wolf could not utter a word. He just sighed and avoided looking at Carl.
“Hey, Matthew... What's the matter?”, Carl worryingly asked he let go of the paw.
“You were like this yesterday too. Are you uncomfortable with being here? I hope you don't feel like I, or the others forced you to staying with me here. It really wasn't my intention if I did.”
Matthew briefly looked back at Carl and sighed “No no. Not at all. I really appreciate it. It is just me. I... Just don't know how to explain how I am feeling now.”
Carl hesitatingly reached out with his right arm and softly laid it on the wolf's left shoulder. “No need to if you can't, wolf”, the collie said softly.
Here was that tone in Carls' voice again. The lupine noticeably struggled to keep himself together, and to prevent the yearning from getting the better of him. Once again Matthew looked away.
“Matty?”, Carl asked, “Come here for a bit.”
The wolf exhaled, “I... I just can't.”
“Shh shh. It'll be ok, wolfy.”
Before Matthew could reply, Carl swiftly pushed his right arm under the lupine's shoulders and lifted it up slightly, making him roll against the collie's chest.
Carl shifted slightly onto his right flank and embraced Matthew with both his arms, pressing the wolf's head close against his chest as he rested his muzzle between the soft, pointy black ears.

Matthew couldn't even protest if he wanted to.
The moment he felt Carl's tight embrace, a switch flicked inside of him.
Inhaling the collie's soft scent, feeling the warmth of the snug embrace, the soft fur, hearing his heart beat, breathing, and being held all combined in an overwhelmingly strong feeling of intense wellbeing. Suddenly everything was alright. It sent the wolf off in a state of bliss.
It moved Carl when he saw what his affection did to Matthew.
While nuzzling the wolf's head, he rocked him back and forth.
When Matthew felt the gentle, rhythmical rocking, he was pushed over the edge.
His eyes started to burn with tears. He did not even bother to hold them back.
Carl, quite enjoying having the wolf in his arms, had his eyes closed.
A trickle of tears accumulated on the tips of Matthew's cheek fur and fell off onto the collie's chest.
Carl felt the light taps on his fur, but did not really respond until a sob made Matthews body shudder. He opened his eyes to find the wolf's cheeks, and his own chest wet with tears.
Matthew sobbed again and snorted, his shoulders shocking. Carl stroked Matthew's back.
The wolf opened his eyes and looked up.
Carl gazed into the lupine's teary, bright green eyes.
The look the collie saw wasn't one of the twenty-three year old wolf a few moments back. It was the kind of look one sees in the eyes of a little pup who got lost, and finally managed to find his way to safety.
     

“Oh Matty”, Carl whispered softly as he felt his own eyes starting to burn. He stroked Matthews cheek softly a few times before resting the wolf's head back against his chest.
“It's all alright, wolfy. I'm watching over you”, he whispered softly as a tear ran down his own cheek.
After what perhaps was ten or fifteen minutes, Carl noticed that Matthew was peacefully asleep in his arms. He sighed contently, pulled up the blankets and closed his eyes.

“Hey sleepyhead, wakey wakey!” Matthew heard in a distance. He tried to open his eyes, but found his eyelids were somewhat sticky from the dried up tears.
Carl noticed and wet his right index digit with a bit of his saliva to remove the residue from the wolf's eyelids so he could open them properly.
“How're you, wolfy?”
Matthew shifted around a bit in the collie's arms and embraced him “Thank you so much”, he said softly.
Carl gave the lupine a soft lick on his nose “There were a few subtle hints I noticed in you throughout the last few months, wolf. But I wasn't certain enough to come forward to you about it”.
Matthew looked surprised “Subtle hints? I didn't even notice I gave away any hints. I always do my best to stay stoic.”
“Let's just say that my experience has taught me to recognize these kind of signs.”
“Uh... Experience?”
Carl smiled warmly “Yes. I've been a caretaker for those who... How should I put it... Those who like to express their younger selves for quite a few years now. Now I don't say you are one of them, but you do have a very strong yearning for being kept warm and safe.”
Matthew sighed and nodded, before resting his head against Carl's chest again.
“I did not know that our cuddle would have this strong of an effect on you though”, Carl said softly.
While stroking the wolf's headfur, he exclaimed “Anyway. Come on, lets start the day and enjoy this morning while there's still an hour left of it. I'm dying for some breakfast!”
Matthew agreed and rolled away from Carl, back to his side of the bed. He stood up and went into the bathroom to get himself ready for the day.

“Morning, canines!”, Joe yelled as Matthew and Carl made their way into the first floor's kitchen.
Lina also was sitting at the table enjoying a cup of tea.
“There's some bacon and eggs left in the pan if you'd like it?”, Lina said. “You do need to re-heat it as I made it as a breakfast, and not as LUNCH”, she added with a grin.
“Oh hush, you silly cat. We both worked hard yesterday. We needed the rest!”, Carl sneered to the cheetah before sticking out his tongue. “At least we are EARNING money in stead of just USEING and COSTING it”, Carl added.
“Just you wait until I get my Masters, I'll whoop your canine arse, brat!”
“Riiiiight, Suuuuuure”, the collie snerked.
“There there now, children. The only woopin' here shall be done by ME, and ME alone, yahear?” Joe jokingly exclaimed. 
He turned to Matthew “Hey wolf, you ok?”, the tiger asked “You seem a bit quiet”.
“Oh, uh... Well, I am just annoyed by this mess in my apartment”, Matthew answered. “Carl showed me an estimate for all the work which needs to be done. It'll be WEEKS!”
“What do you mean, weeks?” Joe asked to Carl.
“Yeah. I need to have a chat with Misha. The damage is worse than we thought it was.”
“Gah. Great”, the tiger grumbled.
“Where are you going to stay, Matthew?” Lina asked.
“Well... I don't know if Carl would mind a house-mate for a bit longer”
The collie chuckled softly “Why no, Matt. I don't think I would”.
Lina smiled.


“I'm going to pull on some weights, boys and girls”, Joe said and he walked out.
Carl walked towards the stove to heat up the left-over bacon and eggs.
After a few minutes Misha walked into the kitchen. “Morning, guys. I bumped into Joe downstairs. He told me the work needing done in Matt's apartment is more elaborate than we expected. Care to fill me in, Carl?”
“Yeah, if you come with me, I will show you”. And they both walked off.
Matthew got the pan off the stove, scraped some bacon and eggs on a plate and started to eat.
“Here. Have some tea”, Lina said while pouring the wolf a mug “Any plans this weekend?”
“Uh, well... Nothing really” Matthew said while chewing away a mouth-full of food. “I was looking forward to just relax and catch up with some sleep. I've had far too little of that the last week. David really has me on a demanding schedule. But now my apartment is a big mess, I don't know what'll come of that”
“You just got a new truck, silly wolf. Of course he makes you suffer”, Lina chuckled “He needs to make sure it makes money! And just confiscate that collie's bed for the weekend. Or at least half of it. Room enough to spare.”
“And you, Lina?”
“I did have some plans, but they sadly got canceled a few days ago.”, the cheetah answered as she idly stared at her empty plate.
Distant chatter approached as Carl and Misha walked back into the kitchen.
The lioness sat down with a grumbly sigh. “Clearly that crack happened when the Den was built. No way I can get anything back from the contractor. It's too long ago. I'll need to take up matters with my insurance agent.”
Carl sat back down as well and started on his breakfast.
“What'cha gonna do this weekend, wolf?” Carl asked as he munched away.
“Dunno yet. I just told Lina that I wanted to go catch up on some sleep. But now I don't have my own bed, I am not too sure if I can.”
“Don't be silly”, Carl said while looking at Matthew. “Get all the sleep you need, I'll just be quiet”.
Matthew finished his breakfast and the mug of tea “I'm headed back to bed for a bit”.
“Would you mind if I joined you after I am done eating? I need to do some more administration”, Carl asked.
“Sure”, the wolf replied “See ya in a bit then”. Matt stood up and made his way back to Carl's apartment.

Misha looked in the direction Matthew just walked off to “Matthew surely seems a bit spaced out, don't you two think”.
Carl kept quiet.
Lina nodded agreeing. “He told me David had him on a hard schedule the last week. A lot of driving and long days. Matt quite likes it, but it takes a toll.”
“Hmhm. Well, this joint isn't going to run itself”, the lioness sighed as she got up “If any of you need me, I'll be downstairs.”
Carl stretched his arms and yawned. He looked at the cheetah sitting at the other side of the table “Hey. I'm sorry”
“Yeah, I was looking forward to this weekend. But it is very sweet of you to offer Matthew a place to stay. Did he at least get a good night's sleep?”
Carl looked to the wall and said nothing. The cheetah wondered why Carl didn't reply.
“Lina, it's more than just fatigue why he is spaced out. I'd like to tell you, but I need to chat with the wolf about this first.”
Lina's eyes widened a bit “What do you mean? Do you mean he's.... also....?”
“I'll tell you later, ok? Now I need to get some administration sorted out.”
“Sure thing, Carl. I hope you can tell me, as you got me very curious now”.

“I will have a word with Matt, kitty. I will let you know more when I can” the collie told Lina as he got up from his chair.

When Carl entered his apartment, he heard the shower run. The collie sat down and ran through a pile of documents on his work desk in the room they both sat in for a little while the previous night.
He realized one of the print-outs was still in the bedroom. He opened the door and encountered Matthew, still damp and with a towel around his groin.
“Let me get you something a bit better for rubbing your fur dry, wolf”, Carl said as he opened one of the closets' doors. He grabbed two huge towels, each almost the size of a bed sheet. One went onto the bed folded in half. “Here, sit down, Matty”. Without allowing the wolf to answer, he just grabbed the lupine's left arm and maneuvered him down onto the bed. Carl sat down next to him, wrapped Matthew into the second towel and started to rub him dry.
The wolf leaned into the collie as he felt paws rub up and down his flank, chest, belly, back and head.  “Up on the bed with you! Time to dry off your legs and feetpaws”, the collie smiled as grabbed Matthew's legs. He lifted them up and rotated the wolf until he was laying on the bed. Carl looked at the towel wrapped around the lupine's groin. Matthew noticed Carl's gaze, and felt his cheeks glow. “Would you mind if I'd rub you dry there too?” Matthew did not  say anything, but softly shook his head. Carl pulled the towel from underneath Matthew's hind-quarter and lifted it off. He quickly draped the big towel over the wolf's groin and began rubbing the insides of the thighs dry, and moved down to the shins and feetpaws. After those were dry, Carl turned his attention to the lupine's sensitive parts. He gently rubbed the area between Matthews thighs and his balls dry, before giving those a few rubs. Then he toweled the black furred sheath off until it was all dry and fuzzy. “There, we're all done now”, Carl smiled to Matthew. “Thanks for trusting me, wolf”. Matthew smiled. He sat upright and leaned against the collie. Carl embraced the wolf, softly rubbing his cheek against Matthews'.

“I want to show you something, Matty. Care to follow me?”
“Uh, yeah. Sure”, Matthew answered and they both stood up from the side of the bed.
The wolf followed Carl out of the bedroom, and into the hallway. “Just hang on a bit”, the collie said without looking back. He opened up a key box hanging against the wall and took out a labeled key. The collie walked to a door at the far end of the little hallway and turned the lock. “Here, come over”, he said as he opened the door.
Matthew stepped into a dark room. Then Carl flicked the light switch.
The lupine gazed around. The windows were blinded. He walked further into the room, up to what was a raised platform. It had a big, convex shaped plastic dark blue cushion on top of it. It looked just like a changing mat for little cubs, only much bigger. Matthew swallowed a few times as he realized what this room was. He saw a big wardrobe like structure to his left, but without any doors.
His breath stopped when he saw that it was stacked full with diapers. After a few moments, he looked down and saw folded bright colored clothing in a neat pile. His turned his eyes to the lower left and saw what looked like a toddler's potty-chair. Only it almost was twice as big.
He turned around and stared back at Carl who was standing in the door-way.
“Are you.... Do.... You're... This is....”
“This is my nursery”, Carl softly said.
Matthew turned around again to look at everything. He walked around to the other side of the changing mat. There was a diaper-pail which was open, without a bag in. A few cans of baby-powder, cream, and wipes. The wolf stood there for a while to let it all sink in. He was startled when he suddenly felt Carl's paw on his left shoulder.
“I did tell you that I am a caretaker, didn't I?”, the collie said.
“Y-yes, you did. But I did not realize it would be like -this-”, Matthew stumbled.
“Well, this is just one of the aspects which can be involved, Matty”


“And now you want me to...Eh..”
Carl started to laugh “Oh no, wolfie. These kind of things are very delicate and personal. I just wanted to show you this. Though feel free if you would like to try it out some time. You are more than welcome to”  
“Do you use this regularly?”, Matthew asked shyly.
“Well, I've been looking after one little cub for a little while, yes. We were to have a bit of quality time this weekend, but then the situation in your apartment happened”, the collie said with a smirk.
“I've never seen you with someone I do not know, Carl”, Matthew wondered.
“That is because it is someone you DO know, genius”, the collie smirked.
“Oh? Eh... Hm.”
“Lina.”
“Lina?!”
“Yup. She cubs out here.”
“Cubs out?”
“Yeah, that is how it's called”, Carl smiled.
Matthew was quiet for a few seconds. “So she was to be in here now with you?”
Carl nodded.
“Oh... I'm so sorry”.
“Well, we can both go back to the kitchen for some more tea and ask if she'd like to come over?”
“I...I am not so sure”, Matthew hesitated.
“Come, lets go back to the kitchen anyway. I would like a drink”, Carl suggested.

The cheetah was still sat at the table when Matthew and Carl walked back in.
“Hey guys. Done with your administration, Carl?”, Lina asked.
“Eh. No... I didn't even get to that. I sort-of told Matthew what we had planned this weekend.”.
The wolf looked down to the table's surface.
“Oh, REALLY now!”, the cheetah exclaimed loudly while grinning elaborately.
Matthew could just feel her gaze on him.
“D'aww, come on, Matty, Don't be so shy now”, She said reassuringly. “Did Carl show you his nursery?”
Matthew coughed and nodded.
“Nice, isn't it?”, she asked. Matthew looked up at her “Sorry, I did not know you two had this planned for the weekend. I-I didn't want to...” “Oh hush now, this mess wasn't your fault!” Lina interrupted Matthew.
“What do you two think of going back to my apartment and chat there? We'll just take some tea with us, OK?” Carl suggested.
They all got up, took a big pot of freshly brewed tea with them and walked back to Carl's apartment.

Matthew eagerly sipped his tea. The wolf was quite thirsty. “Gee. Do you have a lead pipe down your throat or something?”, Carl joked. “Practice makes perfect!”, Matthew said with a nod.
Lina just sat there looking at Matthew. The wolf felt the felines' stare. “So, Matty. Did the big collie here turn you into a little wolf-cub last night?”, she boldly asked.  Matthew almost spat out his tea, and ended up getting into a coughing fit. The cheetah giggled uncontrollably.
“Oh Lina. Can you give the wolf a break?”, Carl intervened “We've only found out about this yesterday”, he added.  Matthew caught his breath and carefully resumed sipping his tea.
Lina got a hold of herself and apologized “Oh, I forgot about that, yes.”
It went quiet as a all three sipped away at their tea.
“So, um Carl, I was wondering now I am here, and Matty knowing about it all, could we erm.. Yaknow...”
Carl chuckled “And here you were teasing Matthew about being a wolf-cub!”
Now it was Lina who felt a bit embarrassed.
 
“Yes, I will help you cub out. But only if Matty can watch everything. I want him to see how it is like.”, the collie smiled while giving Matthew a reassuring wink.
Lina didn't object to the collies' demand at all and got off the chair, followed by Carl.
They both walked towards the hallway “Come, wolf.”, Carl gestured.
Matthew stood up as well, wondering what on earth he was getting himself into.

Well, little cheetah, lets get you sorted”, Carl said to Lina. “Matthew, you just make yourself comfortable, OK?”
The wolf nodded and watched how the collie took Lina's clothes off, until she was only in her underwear. “OK, up on the commode you go, kitty.”
Lina almost effortlessly hopped up onto the blue plastic cushion and laid down on her back.
“Good girl” The collie walked around to grab a can of powder, and some cream. “Oh, Matthew, can you make yourself useful and give me a diaper? Just one from the stock there at your left hand side”.
Matthew felt a shiver going down his spine as he walked towards his left and reached out. His paw-pads slided over the smooth and soft white plastic of the diaper laying on top. He grabbed it and held it in front of him. He noticed the diaper wasn't all white. It had a print of balloons and farm animals on parts of the surface. The wolf listened to the soft crinkling sound as he pressed his digits into the plastic.
He suddenly heard giggling and chuckling. He looked up and saw both Carl and Lina looking at him, overly amused. “Why are you holding and pressing it like that, silly? Think it'll magically teleport its way to the commode?”, Carl smirked.
Matthew walked back and handed the diaper to Carl. The collie gave him a snug “Thank you, wolf.”
Carl put the diaper down next to the other items he just grabbed. He reached for the cheetah's waist, tugging on the elastic band of her underwear. “Oh wait, can you give this to her? Just put it inside her muzzle”, Carl asked while giving Matthew a big pacifier. The wolf, with raised eyebrows, did as the collie asked and held the nipple in front of Lina's maw. She parted her lips, and Matthew gently pushed it inside. He noticed Lina started to suckle on it, and closed her eyes.
Carl reached to his right and took out a black wolf plush and laid it on the cheetah's fuzzy chest. Eagerly she embraced it, and buried her face. “Lots better”, the collie nodded.
Carl took her underwear off and laid it aside. “She won't be needing that for the time being”, he grinned to Matthew. The wolf stood there and observed the little scene. He could not take his eyes of her.
“Can you raise your behind for me, little one?” the collie asked while he grabbed the diaper and opened it up. Lina obeyed, and Carl meticulously positioned the padding under the cheetah's rump. “Good girl, down again!”
“Legs open wide now, little kitty” Carl said while grabbing the cheetahs ankles and pushing her legs up and apart. “Matt, please flip the cap off of the tube of cream and hand it to me?”
Matthew stood there motionless as he peered down between the cheetah's legs.
He felt a soft poke in his flank. It startled him and he looked up and saw Carl smiling at him “Oh, uh.. Here you are”, Matthew mumbled as he handed over the cream.
The collie put a tuft of the thick paste on the surface of his index digit's pad and reached down between Lina's legs while his other arm supported her legs.
Matthew watched as Carl rubbed the cream over the soft skin of the cheetah's vulva. After that was done he squeezed out another tuft, and reached down between her butt cheeks.
“There, that's all her skin treated down there. Last thing I want is her to get a rash. Urine can be quite abrasive on sensitive skin, especially when it's in contact for a few hours”, Carl softly said to Matthew. “Can you give me the powder for her fur?”
The wolf handed the can to Carl. The collie twisted the lid a quarter circle and tilted the can upside down. A thick, sweet smelling cloud of powder came out and landed onto the felines' groin.
Carl gently massaged it into the fur between her legs. “A wipe now please”.
Matthew opened the pack, pulled out a white wipe and gave it to the collie so he could clean his paws.
Carl folded the front of the padding upwards between Lina's hind legs, and over her tummy. He tucked the front wings away under her sides, and taped the back wings snug.
“There! All done now!”, he exclaimed. He reached over the cheetah, his paws under her armpits, and carefully pulled her back upright. She gave Matthew a very happy and content look before pushing herself off the cushion to give Carl a firm hug “Thanks, woofie”, she mumbled with the pacifier in her muzzle.
Carl smiled “You are very welcome, sweetheart.”
 
“I am going to get myself some more tea”, Matthew said as he turned around to walk out of the room. But suddenly he felt a tug on his shirt. He turned around to see Lina standing right behind him with a rather mischievous look in her eyes.
“Your turn now, wuffie”, she teased. Tugging his shirt, she tried to pull Matthew towards the table. Carl laid a paw on the lupine's shoulder “Care to give it a try, Matty?”, he kindly asked. Lina encouragingly nodded as she smiled at the wolf.
“Uh well... Err....”, he stumbled.
“Go on, if anything happens which makes you feel bad and uncomfortable, just say so”, Carl said reassuringly. Matthew looked at both Carl and Lina and nodded softly “OK”.
The collie took Matthew's paw and lead him to the changing table “Here, just hop on, Matty”.
Matthew sat down on the edge of the table. “There, now let me help you out of your clothes, little wuffy”, Carl affectionately said.
The collie took Matthews shirt off. Then he eased the wolf backwards until he was laying on the table before taking his jeans off.  
“Lina, can you fetch me a diaper?”
The cheetah took one from the stack at the left of the changing table, and gave it back to Carl.
“Thanks kitty. Now, I do think the little wuffy here needs some distraction. Can you give him one of the plushies?”
Lina walked over and grabbed the same black wolf plushie she was hugging earlier, and laid it down on Matthew's chest. Hesitatingly, the wolf embraced it. “Oh wait.” The cheetah took the pacifier out of her muzzle and gently rubbed it against Matthew's lips “Here, Matty”, she offered.
The wolf suddenly gasped when he felt his boxers sliding down his legs as Carl took them off. As he was gasping, Lina quickly pushed the nipple of the pacifier into the lupine's muzzle.

Matthew felt rather embarrassed and exposed when Carl lifted his legs up by his ankles and pushed them apart. Even more so when he heared Lina giggle “Such a cute little wuffy Matty is now, hey woofie?”
He exhaled through his nose, clamping down his lips around the nipple. He tugged on it once, twice... It felt strangely comforting to the wolf. He suckled on it a few times more, but stopped when he noticed the sound it produced. “Oh, we heard you”, Carl mocked while he reached  out and tickled the wolf's lower belly.
Matthew, now realizing it had no point, continued sucking and held the plushie close.
“Lets put some cream on the wolfie”, he heard Carl say.
Suddenly Matthew felt a tickle as the cold tuft of cream touched the wolf's pink pucker. Though startled at first, he quickly relaxed as he felt the collies' soft digits massaging the sensitive skin with slow and gentle circles.
“Now Lina, would you be so kind to powder Matty up? That way I won't get that stuff all over my claws.”
“Sure thing!”, she answered enthusiastically while reaching out for the can.
The wolf felt a little draft as the powder landed on his crotch.


He took a deep breath when he felt the light and gentle touch of Lina's soft paw-pads on the inside of his thighs. “Awww, such a cutey”, the cheetah fussed while finishing with the wolf's thighs and pumping out another cloud of the sweet smelling substance.

“Now be a good wuffy”, Lina said, and softly started rubbing the wolf's fuzzy sheath and balls.
Matthew bit the pacifier when he felt a pressure building at the root of his shaft as a consequence of the treatment Lina was giving him.
“Naughty wolfy!”, Lina exclaimed in an amused manner as she teasingly poked the forming bulge at the base of the wolf's sheath.
“Now now, Lina. You should not tease Matthew too much. It feels very uncomfortable to be all bulged up while sheathed”, Carl interrupted “He's all powdered up now anyway. We'll just wait a little while for him to go soft again so he can be diapered without feeling uncomfortable.”
Carl pushed the wolf's legs down until his feetpaws rested on the soft plastic. “Just relax a bit, Matty.”, he smiled while giving the lupine's chest and belly a tickle.

Matthew however, could not relax. He just felt this warm and pleasant tingle in his lower belly.
“This isn't helping a lot, eh?”, Carl noted after a few minutes as he examined the wolf's bulgy sheath. “Well Matty, I won't diaper you up in this state. We'll have to take care of you first”, he firmly said. Matthew curled his toes. As much as he felt horribly embarrassed for what the collie was about to do with him, he also felt this ticklish desire.
“Lina, there is a blue bottle on top of that wardrobe. Can you give it to me?”
The cheetah did as asked. Carl flipped the cap of the bottle and squirted out a big worm of viscous lubricant onto his left paw-pad.
The collie carefully took Matthew's sheath between a few digits, and pushed it down over the pink shaft. He lubed up one digit, and slowly inserted it into the wolf's sheath, softly rubbing it around the knot at the base.
“There, that should make it a bit easier”, he softly whispered while pressing down again.
Matthews rear legs rocked slightly as the collie made his sheath flop over the bulgy knot.
Carl squirted out some more lube on his paw-pads. “Lets get you sorted out, Matty”, he softly said while taking the wolf's shaft in his left paw, and gently rubbing it alongside the length.
Matthew gasped again, bucking his hips as the collie started to rub and stroke his length. Lina walked to the other side of the changing pad. She sat down on the edge and pulled the wolf up a little bit, so he was leaning against her.
Carl noticed Matthew's shaft and knot started to firm up more. Recognizing those signs, he cupped the lupine's knot in his right paw, and started to squeeze down and tug on it.
Lina stroked Matthew between his ears and over his chest.
“Come on, Matty, be a good boy”, Carl encouraged while tugging on the wolf's member.
Matthew moaned as the collie took him to his climax. He snorted and gasped as he started to squirt clear jets of his lupine semen into Carl's paw and over his own belly.
Lina held Matthew tight and stroked his cheeks.
Carl massaged the wolf's belly while keeping a firm grip on his knot.  
“Such a good boy. Looks like you had some build-up in there, wolf”, he said with a smile. Matthew could not reply. He just felt bliss, leaning against the cheetah.
After about fifteen minutes, Carl let go of Matthew's knot and grabbed a towel to clean everything up. “Well, looks like we'll have to cream and powder you up again, wuff.”
He rubbed some more lubricant over Matthew's softening shaft and knot. Gently he guided the wolf's member back into the black, fuzzy sheath.
Lina hopped off the cushion to go help Carl. She grabbed Matthew's ankles and pushed them up and apart, so that the collie could apply the cream onto the wolf's tail-hole once again.
The cheetah re-applied a generous amount of powder onto the lupine's thighs, sheath and balls, and massaged it in just as tenderly as she did before. “There! All done”, she exclaimed.
Carl opened the diaper, and slided it under the wolf's rump. He grabbed the front, folded it between the wolf's legs and taped it up all neat and snug. Grabbing Matthew's left paw, he helped the lupine up-right. He then pulled him close and gave him a tight and long hug.
“Can I have my paci back, Wuffy?”, Lina asked. She softly tugged on the plastic ring. Matthew let it go. She took it back in her own muzzle and contently started suckling on it.

Matthew hopped off the cushion. He looked himself over. His dark, pitch-black fur forming a huge contrast with the lightly colored diaper around his groin. Both Carl and Lina smiled.
“I am going to get some tea for real now. I'll bring a pot so we can all have some.”
He grabbed his jeans and pulled them up. “Wait, wolf, let me help you with that”, Carl said, and he skillfully slided the jeans over the thick diaper, and buttoned it all up.
“Oof, this is a bit tight, Carl.”
“Just don't bend over and you'll be fine”, the collie replied with a wink.
“Gee, thanks”, Matthew cynically replied.
He put on his shirt and walked out of the room. “Bye, waggle-butt!”, Lina exclaimed.	

When Matthew entered the kitchen, Joe was sitting at the table with a mug of coffee.
“Hiya, wolf!”, he enthusiastically said, “Where is every body? I've been all alone here for almost two hours.”
“Misha isn't downstairs then?”, Matthew asked.
“Nope, she must have gone out or something.”
“Well, I'm only here to make another pot of tea, I'm afraid”, Matthew replied as he carefully crunched down to get the tea.
“Something is sticking out of your jeans, lad”, the wolf heard. He reached behind his back and noticed his shirt had slided up a bit. To his horror, he also felt the plastic of the diaper sticking out from the edge of his jeans. He sighed and felt he wanted to sink through the floor.
Joe got up and walked towards the sofa. “Care to come here, wolf?”
Matthew hesitated. “Hey, it's OK, no worries. Now just get your diapered butt here, you silly lupine.”
The wolf got up and walked to the sofa where the tiger was sitting, and sat down next to the large feline.
“So, that collie tricked you into this as well eh” Joe said with a grin. “Uh... Tricked? I could simply have refused, Joe.” The tiger smiled and laid his right paw on the wolf's left shoulder, “Let me tell ya something, wolf.”

“Before I lived here, I used to be one of those die-hard jocks. Pulling weights all the time, acting tough, ya know. I always made fun of others. But then on one warm late spring afternoon, this awful tornado formed right at the edge of my town, and ripped right through. I remember being in my garage. By the time I realized what was going on, it was too late. All I recall is me waking up in the ER in great pain. I had 6 broken ribs, a punctured lung, and a broken shinbone. I got off easy.  Survivors told me that the damn thing lasted over 10 minutes. It was almost a mile and a half wide.  Ever since my new start, as I like to call it, I've changed. I don't want to judge others on the grounds of what they like any more. As long as everyone's happy.”
Matthew looked at the tiger “So you know about Lina and Carl then?”
“I know about Carl, yes. And about Lina. I think it's beautiful and it touches me when I see those two. I would never expect you'd be into it, though. You don't strike me as being the type. But I guess silent waters run deep.”
Matthew sighed. “Carl exposed a hidden side in me. A secret desire I've wanted fulfilled for my entire life, but never could. He surfaced it in me, and it has been one of the best things which have ever happened to me.”
“So it's more for you than just a fetish then, I presume?”
“Well, only today I've discovered I am er... quite fond of diapers in that way yes. But it's also very strong and emotional.”
Joe rubbed a few of his digits under his muzzle. “A desire to be under one's protecting wing then”, he said.
Matthew nodded, “Yes. Very much so.”
Joe smiled, “I've had quite a few chats with Carl about this subject. It is not something that I can relate to, but I do understand what it is about.”
The conversation was interrupted by a sharp whistle coming from the kettle.
“Saved by the bell, pup!”, the tiger smirked.
Matthew stood up and walked back to the kitchen sink.
He poured the steaming hot water into the pot. Just after he put the kettle back on the stove, he saw two orange-black striped paws around his chest. “I can't relate to it, but I do find it erm.... Adorable. Yes.”
Matthew felt how the big, strong tiger held him close. He liked the feeling very much and held the tiger's arms.
He heard Joe sigh.
They stood there for a minute before the buff feline let go. Matthew turned around just in time to see Joe walking out of the kitchen. The wolf stood there for a while, thinking about what just happened.
Emersed in thoughts, he took the teapot and walked back to Carl's apartment.

“What happened to you, Matthew?”, Carl asked with a bit of a worried tone in his voice.
“Joe was in the kitchen. He saw my diaper. It was sticking up out of my jeans”
“Ah”, the collie replied. “Did he make fun of it, Matty?”, Lina asked as she took her pacifier out of her muzzle.
“No...Not at all. It was so weird. He just explained how tough he was before that tornado changed his life, and how he just wanted people to be happy after that. And then when I wanted to get the tea, all of a sudden he stood behind me and hugged me. Then he suddenly walked off.”
“That tiger isn't very secure about himself”, Carl stated. “We've had a few chats about this all. I think he's afraid to admit he likes the concept. Which I do understand, knowing where he comes from. I'm surprised he exposed a bit of his sensitive side to you, Matthew.”
“It felt so nice when he held me”, Matthew sighed.
“Didn't it just”, Carl grinned as he pulled the wolf close, “Here's another one, Wuffy”, the collie embraced the wolf tightly, giving him a few licks on his muzzle and nose.
The silence was interrupted by a loud electronic beep coming from the collie's cellphone.
“Excuse me, you two” he said as he reached out.
“Misha sent me an SMS asking me to meet her up in town. Sorry, you two, but I'll have to go for a while. Now don't leak all over my stuff here!”, he said with a grin as he put on his jacket. “See ya in a bit.”
Lina and Matthew sat there for a few minutes in silence. Suddenly the cheetah stood up. “Nap time!”, she said and grabbed the wolf's paw. “Come, Matty.”
“But I am not tired, Lina”, Matthew protested. “Awr, come on, you silly wuff”, while pulling him out of the chair. “Little cubs need afternoon naps!” 
Matthew shrugged and followed the feline into Carl's bedroom.
“Oh, hang on, wuffy, before laying down kitty has to check if your nappy needs changing”.
Before Matthew could give a reply, he felt his jeans being unbuttoned, and sliding down to his ankles.
There he stood, only in his T-shirt and diaper. Lina smiled “Well, that looks much better already”, and she gave Matthew's diapered crotch a few investigative squeezes. “Wuffy is still dry!”, she said in a surprised and rather disappointed manner.
“Um yeah. I can't go in a diaper, I think”, the wolf mumbled shyly.
Lina wrapped her paws around Matthew from behind “Don't focus too much on it. Just relax and think you're going to the bathroom”.

The wolf exhaled and envisioned himself being in a luxurious, lush bathroom with marble tiling. Elaborately gold plated cubicle door-handles. Shiny white china toilets. Neatly cleaned, smelling slightly of lemon. He suddenly felt the pressure building up. Blanking out his mind, he relaxed his muscles.
A soft “Wizzzzzzz” could be heard as Matthew started wetting his diaper.
“Such a good boy!”, he heard in his left ear. He felt Lina's paw going down to his padding.
The cheetah grinned as she could feel the lupine's diaper warm up. It was quite the flood indeed.
About 30 seconds later, Matthew exhaled as he finally was done. He looked down, and saw that his diaper acquired a dark-yellow haze. Lina squeezed it a few more times and pointed to her own, “Here Matty”, she placed the lupine's right paw on the front of her padding. “Just squeeze it a bit. It will feel a bit firm when it's wet.”
Matthew rubbed and pinched the cheetah's padding a few times. It felt warm and squishy. “You are quite a wet kitty then!”, he concluded.
“Mmmhmm. But these diapers can hold a lot. I'll be safe for a while longer, wolfy. And you are too”, she smiled.

She gracefully hopped onto Carl's bed and gestured to the wolf “Come, Matty”.
A bit less graceful, Matthew sat down on the side of the bed. “Let's get your shirt off too”, Lina said while tugging on it. She grabbed the neckband and slided it over the wolf's head.
The cheetah gently stroked Matthew's dark and fuzzy chest a few times before throwing the wolf's shirt on top of his jeans.
Lina laid down on her side next to Matthew.
“Matty? I want to snuggle with you.”
Matthew shifted slightly towards the cheetah. She eagerly placed both her arms around the black wolf, cuddling up close. She rested her head against his chest.
Matthew exhaled. He embraced Lina, resting his chin on her head between her ears, like Carl did with him the other night.
The feline reached up, and started lick-grooming the wolf's cheeks while purring loudly. Matthew enjoyed that quite a lot and closed his eyes, softly stroking Lina's spotted fur.
They cuddled like this with each other for a while before they both fell asleep.

After what must have been an hour, a bounce suddenly woke Matthew up.
“My two little cuties!”, he heard.
Carl got back and stalked his way into his bedroom before intentionally letting himself fall onto the bed right next to Matthew.
“Oh, I see you're a wet little puppy as well!”. The wolf felt his cheeks glow warm. He realized he still had both his arms around the feline, who now was waking up as well.
“Well, it's almost five o'clock”, Carl said. “I'll help you two out of your wet padding. Then we should think about food.”
He stood up and walked over to Lina and helped her up. “We'll change you first, kitty. Come Matty, lets go to the nursery and sort you two out.”

Still sleepy, Lina laid down on the changing cushion. “Legs spread, kitty”, Carl kindly said as he reached to the sides of the cheetah to undo the tapes.
“Oh Matthew, can you get Lina's pacifier? It's still in the hallway.”
The collie folded the soaked padding open between the felines' legs. Matthew returned and handed the pacifier to Carl. The collie swiftly pushed it between Lina's lips.
“Could you hand me some wipes, wolf?”, Carl asked as he raised Lina's legs.
As Matthew placed the box of wipes in front of Carl, the collie took a few out of the box and started rubbing the fur in between the cheetah's legs. He got a new one for cleaning the felines' genitals. He tickled Lina on the inside of her thighs before carefully spreading her lips open. Softly but thoroughly, he cleaned the cheetah's vulva. Again, Matthew could not keep his eyes off of the scene.
“Well now”, Carl said “Seems there's another one here who needs a little tending to”. The collie grinned as he saw Lina's moist lips.
The cheetah looked up “Wuffy, can you cuddle me?”, she mumbled through the side of her muzzle.
Matthew sat down on the edge like Lina did earlier, and pulled her slightly up in his arms. Lina exhaled, and relaxed in the wolf's embrace.  
Carl tickled the cheetahs' vulva with a few of his digits as he held her legs up with his other paw. Matthew felt Lina shiver in his arms. He pulled her closer and gave her a soft lick under her nose.
He heard her gasp as Carl inserted a digit into her vulva and rubbed the knob where her lips met.
Lina arched her hips up as the collie stimulated her. “There there, be a good little kitty”, Carl whispered as he gently kneaded the knob. 
Matthew heard Lina's breathing getting deeper and louder. Suddenly she moaned as her body shocked a few times. “Now that's a good girl!”, Carl said with a smile as he felt her contractions squeeze down on his digits. He continued rubbing and tickling her for a bit longer until the contractions subsided. The collie took a fresh wipe rubbed the cheetah dry, who was laying, leaned  against Matthew's chest with her eyes closed. Carl gently eased her legs down before taping up the heavy, wet diaper and throwing it into the diaper pale.  
“Does kitty want a new nappy?”, he asked. Lina opened her eyes “No... I'm going to take a shower...” She gave Matthew a few licks on his muzzle and cheeks before hopping off and tenderly hugging Carl. “Oh, you'll need this in a little while, wuffy”, Lina grinned while laying her paci on the plastic cushion. She gave both a warm smile and walked out.

Carl walked to Matthew and grabbed his paw “OK, wolfyboy, your turn.”, He guided the wolf onto the cushion. He helped the wolf up, and eased him down onto his back. Carl held the binky in front of the lupine's nose. Matthew could still smell Lina's scent on the nipple as Carl slowly pushed it between his lips.
Matthew quickly eased into the situation, and closed his eyes. He felt how the collie skillfully untaped his diaper, and cleaned his sheath, tailhole and fur with wipes. “There, that's the bulk of it gone. Now you go take a shower too, Matty”, and Carl helped him back onto his feetpaws.
They both walked out of the nursery and back to the bedroom.
“I'll be in the kitchen, Matt. Lina and the others will be there soon as well, and it'll be nice to have dinner together for at least once every week!” “OK. Carl, I won't be for long either.”, Matt said as he walked into the bath room.
The collie closed the door of his apartment with a soft sigh. While thinking about what all expired in the last day, he made his way to the kitchen.

“Now look who's there! Mister the corrupter!”, a deep voice said. Carl gave Joe a rather annoyed look.
“Corrupter?”, Misha wondered.
“I didn't corrupt anything, Joe. And you know it. Matt told me about your little encounter with him here this afternoon.” 
Joe hushed.
“Err.... Wait a minute”, the lioness said. “What transpired in my kingdom during my absence?”
“It seems I have a little cubby brother, Misha”, Lina said with a grin on her muzzle as she walked in.
Misha looked at Lina for a few seconds, then at Carl. “What? Matthew? Are you serious?”
Carl and Lina both sat down. “Well well... Now that wolf is the last I would have expected it from”.
“Yeah, my thoughts exactly” Joe replied.
“You must have something magic about you, Carl. First Lina, now Matt... Who'll be next...”, Misha grinned while she teasingly looked at Joe.
“No way, Lion!” he snarled.
Carl gave Joe a stern look “You can be all buff and tough now, cat. But we all know the truth. And I had that confirmed by Matthew this afternoon.”
Lina and Misha both chuckled. Joe gave Carl a blank stare.
A deafening silence suddenly fell as Matthew walked in. He froze dead in his tracks as all the others stared at him.  
“Hey kiddo. Changed back into normal underwear I see?”
Misha threw a plastic cup to the tiger's head. “Hush, you dork!”
“You all knew about this?”, he asked as he looked at Misha.

“Hey, what would you expect? We've all known each other for quite a while”, the lioness replied in a reassuring way. “Come, grab a beer, and join us.”
Matthew did as suggested and sat down in between Joe and Misha.
“Your apartment will take a few weeks, I'm afraid Matthew. But I've recently learned that staying with Carl isn't that much of a problem after all”, the lioness said with a teasing grin.
Matthew took a big gulp of beer to prevent himself from being able to give a sensible reply.
Carl chuckled, “Don't tease him so much, that's not really fair. You guys didn't give Lina any of that either.”
“Lets go get some pizza”, Misha said decisively. “I am sure no one of us feels like cooking now.”
All shook their heads in a tired way. “Good. Easy decision! The best kinds”, she continued “OK, me as queen of the Lions Den decides that Carl, Joe and Lina are responsible for acquiring tonight's chum. Matt and me will clean the kitchen up a bit.”
“Well sure, I don't mind a little walk”. Lina said. “You Lions and your grandeur”, Joe protested. “Well, come on you two, lets go get some food so that her Majesty and her humble puppy-servant can prepare the Den”, the tiger added. All chuckled as they walked off.

“The kitchen isn't that much of a mess, Misha.”
“Oh, I know, Matt.” The lioness got two bottles of beer out of the fridge. “I'm going to take a glass with mine. You're still fine with the bottle?”
“Yeah, sure.”
Misha walked to the same sofa where he sat earlier with Joe. “Come have a seat, will ya.”
“You know... Joe had a chat with me about this all this afternoon. Don't tell me you've been curious about the subject as well?”
“Mhm. As a matter of fact, I am.”, Misha replied. “Now, get your butt here, wolfboy!”
Matthew sat down next to the lioness, leaned back and sipped his beer.
“Carl is quite the fatherly type, as you probably noticed”, She said softly.
“Yeah. He managed to expose a part in me I kept securely hidden.”
Misha smiled “Well, securely hidden indeed, as I could not have dreamed it in my wildest dreams. Carl wants to care for others. It's all for a reason.”
Matthew looked at Misha “What's that reason if you don't mind me asking?”
“Well,” She continued “Both him and his brother grew up without their parents. They basically were abandoned as pups. An orphanage took care of them. But he has always been very protective about his baby brother. He became sort of a surrogate father.”
Matthew stared blankly across the room. “Damn... My childhood was bad, I never got any love and tenderness, but at least I had parents.”
“Sadly his younger brother died in his mid teens. Carl blamed himself for that. He was not to blame for his brothers passing, but try telling him that”, Misha said softly. “So when he started to play caretaker for Lina, I instantly understood. Though the whole diaper thing was a bit of a surprise to be honest. But I know like no one else that it's all in good spirits. And Lina just loves the hell out of it. Just before you got back here, she was quite excited when she said she gained a little cubby brother”
Matthew felt a lump in his throat. He quickly took another sip of beer in an attempt to flush it down. He just sighed.
“Carl has unleashed something in me. I no longer have a desire to wear this mask I've worn for so long. I just did not know that the reason why he became how he is now, is so tragic.”
“He gave it a place, Matty. Does he seem overly unhappy and sad to you?”
“Yeah, you have a good point there, Misha.”

She was quiet for a little while as she inspected her claws. “So ehm... You know, I am a lioness. I've never aspired to have any cubs or such. But I was hoping if you would not mind being my little one for the little while it takes for the others to get back?”

Matthew looked at Misha. “No, I would not mind.”, he almost whispered.
She invitingly lifted up her right paw. The wolf leaned against the feline. Her strong embrace kept him close and snug.
Once again, Matthew was overcome by an overwhelming feeling of wellbeing. He listened to her heartbeat, and loud purring as she started to gently rock him inside her arms. He closed his eyes and felt her raspy tongue lick-grooming his cheek and muzzle. He felt  safe and secure in the strong lioness's embrace.
Matthew did not even hear the others return. Misha held a digit in front of her maw gesturing them to be quiet when they all got back into the kitchen.
The lioness gave the wolf a soft lick over his nose and muzzle. Matthew opened his eyes to see Joe, Carl and Lina stand right in front of him.
“The second time I walk in on you being in someone's arms, Matty”, Carl laughed.
Matthew didn't even care this time. Everyone knew by now anyway.
Lina stepped up and gave Matthew a kiss on his nose. “Come, wuffy. Time for pizza.”
Both the wolf and Misha got up and joined the others to the table.
Like the bunch of hungry predators they were, they dug in.

“So, what plans do you all have for tonight?”, Joe asked while wiping tomato sauce from his face.
Carl stretched out “I'm gonna have a quiet evening. Today has been rather demanding with two cubs to look after.”
“I am staying in as well”, Matthew added. “I am not in a mood to go anywhere.”
“What about you, Lina?”, the tiger wondered.
“I quite fancy going to the cinema tonight. Anyone wanna join?”, the cheetah suggested.
“Yeah, sounds like a plan”, Misha said.
Joe nodded “Well alrighty then, i'll tag along as well, let's go”
Everyone tossed their plates in the sink, and Joe, Lina and Misha went on their way.

“Seems Misha showered you her motherly side too?”, Matthew heard Carl ask.
“She has done so with Lina too. You should have seen that. Lina being this happy purring kitten in between Misha's paws. You were awfully cute as well I have to add.”
Matthew smiled. Twenty-four hours ago, he wasn't even back from his work. That felt like a world away now after all that has happened since.
The black lupine rinsed off the plates and placed them in the dish-washer.
“I'm off to my den, wolf. Coming too?”
“Yeah, might as well”.

Back in Carl's apartment, Matthew sat down. “Misha and me had a chat when you guys were getting food. She explained a few things.”
“Oh? What did she say?”
“Well, about why you’re such a caregiver mostly. ”
“Ah.” The look in Carls' eyes darkened.
The collie turned around and sighed “I love Misha. She's my best friend, and I owe her a lot. But this wasn't for her to tell.”
Matthew rested his paw on the Carls' shoulder. “I'm sorry, I didn't want to make you sad.”
The collie sighed, “I can't blame you for this. And I don't think I can blame Misha for it either. She has good intentions. She probably only wanted to explain. It is just hard on me at times. I find comfort in caring for others. It helps me when it hurts.”
Matthew nodded and held Carl close for a moment.
“Hey, wait a minute. I see what you are doing here. You are turning things around!”, the collie exclaimed. He quickly turned himself around so he was facing Matthew, and pulled the wolf close. 
“There. Much better now!”, he grinned.
“Oof. I am done with today”, Matthew tiredly said, basking in the collies' embrace. “I think I’m going to lay in bed for a bit.”
“I won’t be long either, Matt.”

It must have been around 03:00 when Matthew woke up. All groggy, he pawwed at the illusive light switch once again. Still half asleep he made his way to the bathroom in the dark to relieve himself. He found the bedroom dark still when he got back. He tip-toed back to his side of the bed, and crawled back under the blankets. 
After a few minutes of laying awake, the lupine’s eyes were fully adjusted to the dark. They wandered to his left. Once again, he could make out the contours of Carl. He sighed softly. 
The collie turned around in his sleep, facing Matthew. 
The wolf looked at Carl for a few minutes before he felt his eyes getting heavy.  He rolled over on his right side.
“You’re trying to frighten me with your menacing blank stare, big, bad wolf?” Matthew suddenly heard a sleepy voice behind him.
“Oh, eh. I thought you were sound asleep there.” 
There was no reply and it went quiet again. 

A little while later, it was Carl who woke up. He went to go to the bathroom. 
After doing his business, he looked himself over in the mirror. His long brown – white coat looked a bit scruffy from sleeping. After a litthe while of looking himself over, he turned off the light and went back to his bed.
The collie could not go back to sleep though. He was kept awake by a strong yearning for affection. He looked at the shape of the sleeping wolf next to him.

Matthew suddenly felt a paw on his left arm and opened his eyes slightly. He felt how another paw was pushed under his right side and before he knew it, Carl was spooning him.
Matthew eased himself over onto his back and again found himself between the collie’s fuzzy arms, and cuddled against his chest. He closed his eyes as that wonderful, secure feeling got hold of him again. 
The wolf felt the collie’s cheek rubbing against his, followed by a lick on his ears. 
Matthew looked up at Carl. The collie stroked the lupine’s chest and belly.
He started licking Matthew’s nose and cheeks. The wolf inhaled the sweet and slightly musky scent of the collie’s muzzle. Carl stopped and they looked in each other’s eyes for a few moments. 
Carl then slowly moved his muzzle to Matthew’s. The collie nuzzled and rubbed his muzzle against the lupine’s. 
Matthew closed his eyes again and sniffed the collie’s soft and smooth lips. 
Carl opened his maw, carefully placing his jaws over the lupine’s snout.  A shiver went down Matthew’s spine as he felt the warmm soft insides of Carl’s muzzle. 
The collie richly tongue bathed the wolf’s muzzle for a few minutes, keeping his maw over the wolf’s.
Matthew savored Carl’s scent. He felt the collie’s muzzle slide off of his. He licked his lips, which were generously coated with the collie’s saliva. 
His heart was beating rapidly, blood rushing through his veins. 
No words were being said. Their eyes met again for a few moments. 

Matthew parted his lips slightly and closed his eyes. It wasn’t long before Carl gave him a few licks inside his muzzle. He then eagerly locked his muzzle onto the lupine's shortly after, guiding his tongue into the wolf’s maw. 
Matthew's head started to spin as Carl took him into a long and deep kiss. 
Carl caressed and explored the inside of the lupine’s warm muzzle. His tongue went over Matthew’s smooth fangs, cheeks then over and under the lupine’s soft tongue. 
He deeply inhaled Matthew’s taste with every breath he took. 
The collie felt his passion growing stronger, followed by a more lustful desire. 
Slowly he broke the kiss, licking the wolf’s lips and nose as he backed away. 
Matthew panted softly, the collie’s scent thick on his breath. 
“Wolfy?”, Carl hesitated. “I… Eh… I would like to mate with you.”
Matthew licked Carl’s muzzle a few times before looking up.
“Please Carl, I would love you to.”
They hugged each other close.

Matthew felt Carl’s paw tugging his underwear down “Let’s get rid of those first then”, the collie softly said. 
The wolf started to stroke the collie’s belly. Gradually, his black paw reached further down until he could feel Carl’s sheath. Slowly he ran it further down. He carefully felt around the collie’s balls. Carl softly gasped, feeling the tender and affectionate attention Matthew gave to his soft orbs.
The collie grabbed the lupine’s paw, and softly pulled it away, placing it around his waist. He maneuvered himself onto his side, putting his rear legs around the wolf’s.  He rolled Matthew over onto his side as well, facing him. Carl took him and into an embrace, while tugging the wolf’s waste against his with his strong rear legs.
Both sheathes rubbing against one another, their muzzles locked again as Carl started to ride against Matthew. 
The wolf moaned softly while feeling the pleasant, rhythmic pressure against his groin. Carl felt his arousal build up and held still for a bit. He let go of the wolf with his paws, easing them in between their legs.
Pushing both his and the lupine’s sheath down, he softly rubbed both their slick tips together. 
Matthew gasped loudly, feeling Carl tip against his. 
The collie moaned quietly as he grunted, “Let me have you.”

The wolf rolled over onto his other side. Carl spooned him again, the collie's strong paws holding him tight. 
Carl started to push up against Matthew's rear. Soon, the tip of Carl's shaft was poking under the wolf's tail. Matthew flicked his tail out of the way. The collie pushed forward and the lupine felt Carl's slick length slide in. 
The lupine bucked his hips as Carl's tip pushed past and against his G-spot. 
“You ok, Wuffy?”, the collie asked softly. 
Matthew reached around, and gave Carl's  muzzle a drooly, slobbery lick. 
With one final push, Carl's shaft was in completely. Both just laid there for a few moments, adjusting to the feelings and sensations. 
The collie started to hump the lupine. First slowly, but as his arousal rose, so did the pace. 
Carl started to pant deep and fast. His warm and moist breath brushing against Matthew's left cheek. 
The rather uncomfortable feeling of being penetrated at first soon made way for an erotic itch, every time the collie's shaft bumped passed the wolf's prostate. Matthew felt how he longed for more and more. He started to push back against Carl every time the collie pushed forward. 
Carl panted and moaned. Matthew reached sideways and lapped at his muzzle. Carl passionately mouthed Matthew's maw. An abundance of the collie's warm drool ran on and into the wolf's muzzle. Matthew closed his eyes, savoring the Carl's taste and scent again. It all felt so immensely good.
Matthew ground his teeth as Carl's knot started to grow, stretching his anal muscle open further every time it passed. The rest of the collie's member also gaining length and girth. 
The thickening shaft starting to lock itself in the wolf's sphincter, the knot pushing against lupine's anus.
Carl uttered a deep and low grunt. With one final powerful thrust, he rammed the complete length of his shaft and knot into the wolf. 
Matthew moaned, grinding his teeth, feeling the big knot of the collie being buried inside of him. 
Carl started to licks the black wolf's face as his orgasm set in. Both his paws letting go of the tight grip around the wolf's waist, now sliding over Matthew's chest and stomach. 
Matthew exhaled and was able to relax when Carl started to tenderly stroke him.
After a few minutes, Matthew's discomfort subsided. The wolf felt how he was tightly bonded to Carl. The collie's member tightly locked inside his body and filling him up with this warm tidal wave of semen.
Carl's throbbing knot was rubbing right against Matthew's prostate. The lupine pushed back against the collie's groin and reached his muzzle around to lick at Carl's tongue, who took him into a warm kiss.
Matthews felt Carl's paw reaching down his belly to stroke his sheath. 
It did not take long before Matthew felt a tingle in his loins. The relentless pressure against his prostate and Carl's skillful stroking just was too much. 
The collie felt how Matthew rocked his hips, and how his shaft firmed up in his grip. He slowly broke the kiss, and mouthed the wolf's maw again. With a new load of Carl's musky smell in his nostrils, the wolf went over. Carl squeezed and tugged at Matthews' knot. With a growly yowl, the lupine started to squirt his watery semen over his belly and chest. Carl shivered when Matthew's muscles clamped down around his still throbbing member.

Matthew exhaled, his muzzle still between Carl's lips. He drifted off in a state of total bliss. 
They both laid there for a while. Matthew felt the pressure inside his colon lessening. He clenched his muscles around the collie's member, keeping him tightly locked in. Carl shivered and exhaled softly into Matthew's ear, still holding the wolf's firm knot in his paw. 
A few minutes later, The lupine's knot softened, and Carl gently guided Matthew's shrunken shaft back in his sheath.
“Umm. Care to let me go, Wuff?”, Carl whispered in Matthew's left ear. The wolf relaxed his sphincter and felt the collie's flaccid knot plop out, followed by the rest of the length. 
“Come here you”, Carl grunted. Matthew rolled around back into the collie's arms, his wet sheath pressed against the collie's again. He felt how Carl embraced him, and started to rock him in his arms. Before long, Matthew fell asleep. Carl smiled. Still feeling the afterglow, he rested his head onto the wolf's, and soon drifted off himself.  

Carl opened his eyes, woken up by a ray of sun-shine shinng right into his face.
Yawning, he looked at the ebony colored wolf laying against him. As if Matthew felt Carl's stare, he  woke up too. 
“Morning wuff.” Carl said.
The wolf yawned, making a noise somewhere in between a moan and a howl. This suddenly got muffled by the collie's maw. After a long and deep good morning kiss, both smiled.
“Wakey, wakey”, Carl grinned. 
“I should rent you as my personal collie alarm-clock. Much more pleasant than the one I have!”.
“Oh really now. Well, I do not come cheap. I require payment in nature”, Carl teasingly remarked as he threw the blankets back and got up. 
“Eh, Carl? Did you and... err... Lina...” 
“No, we haven't. I do love and like her a lot. I am very fond of looking after her, and well, playing with her too during diaper changes. But sexually, I am attracted to canines. And male ones at that!”, he said with a wink. 
Matthew smiled, making his way out of the bed as well. The collie pulled him into an embrace. “And what about you, my dear dark wolf? I think it's a pretty safe bet that you are quite fond of male canines as well, eh?”
“I uh... Well, I do. But I don't really mind others either.”
“Others such as.... felines? cheetahs by any chance?”, Carl wittingly remarked. “You and Lina looked very cute when you both were snoozing on my bed yesterday.”
Matthew looked down and smiled. “Well, that was just hugging.”
“AND I saw you looking at her when I was diapering her, and later changing her. AND I were told certain things when we were getting food yesterday, and you got all cubby with Misha”, Carl grinned.

“You guys seem to be all plotting against me in this!”, the wolf complained. 
“Oh YES, we are”, the collie remarked, rubbing the the lupine's headfur with a paw.
The wolf grumbled “You tease.”

They both got dressed and wet to get breakfast. 
“And, did puppy sleep in a Pamper last night?” Joe asked loudly.
“I am sure he did. Carl doesn't like smelly wolf-pee stains in his bedsheets”, Misha replied while idly sipping a big mug of coffee. 
“Oh hush, you cat-faces”, Matthew sneered. 
White Matthew tried to take a seat, Misha pulled her chair back and grabbed the wolf, who suddenly felt himself being sat on the lioness' lap.
“Joe, would you care to help me out here? We have a little puppy who needs his breakfast!”.
The buff tiger gave a mischievous grin, and got up “Oh sure!”. He grabbed a plate and scooped up some bacon and eggs which Lina made earlier in the morning.
“Now, lets get little puppywolf his foodies”, he said while pushing a chair next to Misha. 
 “Hey! I can eat myself, you know!” Matthew protested, but without putting up any physical effort to break himself free.
“Hmmyes, perhaps you can, wolfy. Question is, do we want you to”, Misha smiled. 
Both Carl and Lina were watching the little scene unfolding from across the table with great amusement.
Matthew just huffed. 
“D'aww. Come on little pup”, Joe shushed as he grabbed a spoonful of egg and bacon “Open wide!”, he loudly said as he moved the spoon towards the wolf's muzzle. 
He shrugged as best as he could in the lioness's tight grip, and opened his maw.
“And IN goes the bus!”, he heard Joe say. He felt the spoon slide back out as he closed his mouth. Matthew was quite hungry, and Lina really outdid herself. 
“Such a big boy!”, Misha complimented.
Matthew ignored it, taking another bite as the tiger spoon-fed him.
“There, it's all gone!”, Joe smiled. 
Matthew felt how the lioness rubbed his belly. 
“Hey Carl. Did wuff here make his morning toilet already?”, he heard
“Oi!!”, Matthew exclaimed, giving the tiger a particularly evil gaze. 
“Why no Joe, not yet”, Carl answered rather surprised, though fighting to prevent breaking out in laughter.
“Oh oh”, Misha now said “Would you mind me and Joe here putting the Wuffy in some Pampers then? We don't want him to pee himself. Or worse!”.
Lina stood up “I wanna watch!”. 
“Hmmhmm. Come on then, to the nursery with him”, Carl said firmly.
“Oh great. A peepshow”, Matthew grumbled.
“Oh shush you, you love it”, Lina snerked.

Joe lifted Matthew up, and sat him on the blue plastic of the changing pad.
Misha eased the wolf onto his back and started to undress him.
Carl gave Joe a diaper, and placed the cream and wipes onto the platform.
“Could you hold Matty still Joe?”, Misha asked “There's no room here for two large cats to work”.
Joe went and sat down on the edge next to Matt and pulled him close, holding the wolf against himself.  
Matthew felt how the lioness pushed his legs up and apart. 
This wasn't Lina, nor Carl. The wolf felt quite embarrassed, realizing how the lioness got quite an eye full of his private parts. 
He felt her digits exploring between his rear legs, and he shivered.

“D'aww. Just relax, cub”, he heard Joe's deep voice, and he felt one of the tiger's claws rub over his belly. It felt comforting to Matthew.
Both Lina and Carl stood a bit back, watching with interest.
“You're getting the bonus, Matty! Being tended two by two big felines”, Carl said with a big smile. 
Matthew wanted to give a particularly nasty response, but was hushed by Joe. Lina walked over, and gave the tiger her pacifier. “Here Joe, give him this. He'll need that.”
“Oh my”, the tiger said “Well, there ya go pup, open your maw.”
The wolf just gave in at this point, and started to suckle at the nipple.
“Good boy”, Joe fussed. 
Meanwhile, Misha had been busy organizing a bit. She looked at Carl “Say, in school I was taught to check vital signs regularly in cubs. Now I can see that Matty here breathes and can move. But I would like to know some more things.”
Matthew gulped as he could guess what the lioness was hinting at.
Carl looked at Matthew and said “Oh, you mean a ther-mo-me-ter”, with crystal clear articulation.
“Yes. And I do not mean those horrible modern electronic laser in-ear ones. I want an old-fashioned one. Those still are the most reliable.” Misha answered.
“Oh, I have just what you need then. Give me a moment”, and Carl walked out.
“Oh dear, little wuffy is going to get his tailhole temperatured”, Joe said while he chuckled.
“Lina, could you give me some lubrication?” the lioness asked. 
The cheetah got the tube of lubricant and handed it over to Misha. Carl returned with a little square box. Matthew saw how Carl flipped the lid, and took out a large glass thermometer.
“Here you go, lion”, he said as he handed it over. 
Misha put some lubricant between two of her paw-pads, and rubbed the silvery tip of the thermometer in between.
“Now Matty, be a big boy now, this won't take very long”, the lioness said with a motherly tone in her voice.
Matthew felt how his legs were kept up by the lioness's left arm.
The lioness pulled his furry balls back to have better access to the wolf's anus.
He bit the pacifier's nipple as he felt a cold tickle under his tail. 
Misha slowly tickled the wolf's anus with the tip of the thermometer. “Here it comes!”, she said loudly.
Matthew felt the pointy tip right on the little hole in the middle of his pucker. 
Misha pushed the glass rod into the wolf's rear.
“This is an old-fashioned thermometer, so this'll take a few minutes, pup”, the lioness said.
After a few seconds, she started to wiggle it around, pushing it in deeper. 
Matthew curled his toes as he felt his insides being poked.
Slowly, the lioness pulled the thermometer out again. “Oh dear. I think we did make a wise decision by padding you up, Matty. I think you need to go potty rather soon.” 
Matthew grunted in embarrassment. Joe just chuckled and tickled the lupine's chest.
Misha took a wipe and cleaned the glass rod. “Lets get you padded up quickly, pup!”
Effortless, she placed the open diaper under Matthew's rump. 
“Do you want me to powder him, Misha?”, Lina asked. 
“Eh, yeah, sure, go right ahead. I'll put cream on his skin”.
Once again, Matthew felt Lina's soft paws massaging the powder into his fur. Despite intensely enjoying the sensations, the wolf did not display any physical signs of arousal this time, up to his relief. 
After Misha rubbed cream onto the wolf's pucker, she skilfully folded and taped the diaper snug over Matthew's groin.
“All done!”, she exclaimed.

Joe helped Matthew back upright. Just as the wolf wanted to stand up, Joe pulled him back. 
“You're not leaving before I give you a hug, little diaperwolfy”, and he took the wolf into a tight embrace, rubbing his cheek against Matthew's.
Carl smiled “I've always suspected this, Joe”
The tiger smiled back “It's hard for me to admit, Carl. But you were right.” He turned to Misha “Now, shall we put Mattpup in some proper attire?”
“Hmm..... Nah”, the lioness answered “He looks just adorable in only his pampers.”

Misha took one paw of Matthew in hers, and together with the tiger, they both guided Matthew out of the nursery, followed by Carl and Lina. 
“Lets just have a lazy afternoon with drinks and chitchats”, Carl proposed. “With some extra beer for Matty here, so he'll need a few changes”, the collie added with a wink.
The wolf lazily flopped down on the sofa between Carl and Misha. He yawned and sighed “Man, going back to work tomorrow is going to be hard. That world feels so distant now after this weekend.”
Carl leaned against Matthew “This has been rather revealing for all of us, hasn't it?”
Joe got back with beers for all and sat down opposite of the others.
“David has planned me on a route which'll take me Monday and Tuesday. I was quite thrilled on Friday, but now I am not so sure any more. I mean, I'll miss you lot more than ever”, Matthew softly said while blankly staring ahead.
“Well, that truck of yours has more than one seat, I assume?”, the lioness said. 
“Uh, yeah. Of course it has. There is a passenger's seat.”
“Well, so you can take someone along if you wanted!”
“I don't know if that's allowed really. Sometimes I have to unload on sites which require special training for those to be even allowed on the premises. I would need to check with David on that.”
A few seconds of silence followed. 
Suddenly the lupine heard and felt a hollow 'plump' on the plastic of his diaper. He looked at what was Misha's cellphone. 
“Need me to dial David's number for you, little cub? Or are you big enough to do that yourself? 
Ask, you silly!”
“I would not mind joining you, wolf. I'd love to keep you company, do some mapreading for ya, you know”, Carl suddenly remarked.
“Map reading is not really required”, Matthew smiled “That's all handled by the on-board computer.”
“Well, at least keep you company then.”
Matthew warmly smiled at Carl. 
“Would you have a problem with that, Misha?”, the collie asked.
“By all means Carl. I don't think I've ever seen you even go away for a full day outside of the weekends. If there is someone who should get some time off here, it is you.”
“Bah. Sadly I have classes to attend next week. I would love to join you too”, Lina said.
“I am sure there are other days you can come along, Lina, but I need to ring David first to see if it's ok for Carl to come along in the first place.”
The wolf grabbed Misha's phone and dialed Davids number.
After a short conversation he hung up. 
“Well, no special requirements on sites on the trip, and he did not see any problem in me taking you along, Carl. He'll book you in tomorrow morning. Just bring your ID.”
“Ok, that's great!”, the collie smiled “When do we need to be down at the office?” 
“Around seven tomorrow morning.”, Matthew answered while giving the phone back to Misha.

After a beer or two, the wolf felt that he had to go pee. Doing his best no to let the others notice, he tried to relax, and soon he felt a warm stream making its way down between his legs.
“Does anyone want another beer?” he asked while standing up.
“Wait there, little one!”, Carl said. “Come here, you.” 
Matthew looked down and again saw the obvious yellow haze on the plastic. 
He felt Carl's paw rubbing and squeezing down between his legs. “Yup, you're a little wet there, Matty. But you should still be alright for a while.”
The others all grinned and also looked at the bulge.
As the wolf walked passed Misha, he heard and felt a 'PLOOF' on his backside, followed by chuckling of the others. “Oi! You pervy cat!”, he exclaimed.
“Shush you, and bring me another beer, diaperwolfy”, she teased. 
As Matthew was at the fridge, he released another warm stream. But this time, he also felt a pressure in his lower stomach. This did bother him. Thinking about how he'd bring it to the others, he walked back with the beer.
“I think I need some time for myself now”, Matthew said as he gave the beer to the others.
“Oh? Why so?, Joe asked. 
“Umm well... Wetting works out just fine, but I eh... need to..” “OH, wuffy needs to go poopies?”, Lina interrupted rather loudly. 
Matthew grinded his teeth and gave the cheetah an evil stare. 
“Come Matty”, Carl said as he stood up. “I'll help you out with that.”
“But eh... I am sure I can do that by myself, Carl”.
“Not when you're under my care, wolfy”, the collie said with a strict tone in his voice.  And he grabbed the wolf's paw and dragged him along. “We won't be long, lads”, he loudly said as they both walked into the hallway.

Back in the nursery, Carl guided the wolf onto the cushion, lifted his legs up, un-taped and folded the diaper open.
He grinned and gave the wolf's tailhole a teasing rub. Matthew grunted, curling his toes.
“Carl... Please... Don't do that. You'll make me go.”
“Mmhmm. Yes. That would be such a disaster eh.” He poked at the wolf's tailhole a few more times before he let the lupine's legs back down. Carl reached down the side of the changing table, grabbed the large potty-chair and placed it on the ground in front of the table.
“Onto the potty you go, wuff.” 
Matthew just stared at Carl. “Why not the toilet?”
“Because you're a little cub, and under my care. Little cubs do not use a toilet. If it was up to me, you'd be pooping in your diaper like cubs do. I am just giving you a break here by allowing you to sit on the potty like much bigger cubs are allowed to do.”
The wolf grumbled.
“Now, come on, off the table and onto the potty, or else I'll make you go right there”, the collie said with a mischievous look in his eyes.
The wolf decided to give in to the collie's demands, and maneuvered himself off the diaper and the table. Carl grabbed the lupine's paw, and guided him down.
Matthew felt the broad raised front of the potty forcing his legs apart as he sat down.
Carl gave an approving smile as he squatted down behind him.
He embraced Matthew holding him close. “There there now, little wolf. Just relax and let the big bomb drop.”
The wolf felt more pressure building up. He tried to push his rear legs together and hold it in, but the front of the potty prevented that. With a grunt he gave in. 
Carl wrinkled his nose and grinned “Bombs away!”.
Matthew had to pee as well and did so. He closed his eyes as he felt his body fully relax.
“Wolfy does like being on the potty, I see. Maybe we should do this every time he needs to go number two!”
Matthew felt Carl's gentle grip as he guided him off the potty. 
“Let me clean you up, wolf.”
Carl helped the wolf back onto the changing table and cleaned him up with baby wipes.
“There we go, Matty”, he said as he threw away the last wipe. 
“You're ok there?”
“Uhuh”, the wolf replied as he sat back upright and gave the collie a hug.
Smiling, Carl walked off to the bathroom to clean out the potty.
“No new diaper for you?”, the collie asked after returning.
“Nah. It's late afternoon. I think I'd better not.”
Matthew dressed himself, and they both walked back to the kitchen.

“Awww. No more puppywolf?”, Misha said in a disappointed manner. 
Matthew let himself fall down next to the lioness and snuggled up against her.
“Oh, I can still be your puppy if you want that, Misha. I mean, I do not require to wear a diaper for that, do I?”, he smiled. 
The lioness gave him a warm lick in his face. “Of course not, Matty. But it looks so cute on you! Well, Sunday late afternoons. More administration for me. Oh will the pain ever stop?”, Misha sighed as she stood up and walked out.
“Matty...” Lina asked after being a bit quiet. “I would so much have loved to join you too Monday and Tuesday as well.”
“I think David would have had a problem with two passengers, Lina. But like I said, you can come along next time, I promise. OK?”
The cheetah nodded softly. 
Carl stood up “I'll be in my den if you lads need me, ok? Seeya when it's dinner time.”
Joe also left for an afternoon catnap, leaving the cheetah and wolf by themselves.

Lina moved closer to Matthew and leaned against the wolf's side. Matthew raised his right arm and put it around the feline. 
She rested her head against the wolf's shoulder. “Would you like to spend the night with me, Matty?”, she suddenly asked.
Matthew raised an eyebrow and looked into the cheetah's eyes. 
“Well, you and Carl will be off together for two days. I want to spend some time with you before.”
“Carl told me that he was told certain things when you all were out getting dinner yesterday.”, the wolf said quietly.
“I didn't dare to directly tell you, Matthew. I'm so sorry for that. I've liked you ever since you got here. But since Carl got you involved this weekend, I'd really like to spend a night with you.”, Lina softly said. 
“Can you blame me for that, after seeing Carl changing you and stuff?” she added with a shy smile.
“I loved snuggling with you a lot, for sure. I'd love more of that.”, Matthew replied. “Come on, lets tell Carl.”

“Hey you two”, the collie said while writing in his organizer. 
“Carl, would you mind if I'd spend the night with Lina tonight? She wanted some time with me before we both go off tomorrow.”
The collie put his pen down and looked up. 

“You two were so cute when you were hugging each other yesterday. I am sure you both want more of that eh?”, he grinned.
“OK, I am going to clean my place up a bit then”, Lina happily said, and she walked off, leaving the wolf and collie behind.
“Yesterday she told me she likes you Matthew. A lot”
“I eh... gathered that, yes”, the wolf replied, “But... What about what we did...”
“What about that, Matty?”, Carl said with a smile. “Lina won't have a problem with that, trust me.”
“But what if I want that again?”, Matthew doubtfully asked.
Carl stood up and placed his paws on the wolf's shoulder. 
“We all love each other, Matty. I am sorry if this makes you feel bypassed or angry even, but we had a very openhearted chat about this yesterday, because me and Lina go a while back with this. We both decided without a doubt that we'd love you to be a big part of this as well. So yes, please go and spend the night with that cheetah, my dear friend. I absolutely want and love you to. Just as much as I would love to share those very special moments with you again as well.”
The collie nuzzled Matthew softly. “Now, there is somewhere else you should be, wolf. And I have more administration to deal with”, and he gently pushed the lupine towards the door. “I'll see you two at dinner!”

Matthew found the door to Lina's apartment left open. “Hey wolfy”, he heard coming from inside. He stood there and hesitated for a bit. 
“You're not coming in?”, Lina asked with a smile. 
She showed him to her small living room and they both sat down on a comfortable sofa. 
“I've never really seen your apartment all the time I've been here.”
“Nothing special really. Just a place where I can study and sleep.”  
They both sat there for a while, saying nothing.
“I see Carl helped you out of your padding. Did you take a shower?”
“Eh. No, he just cleaned me with wipes.”
“Care to have one before dinner?”
Matthew smiled, “Together with you?”
“Uhuh. I am in need of one as well”, Lina answered. “Come, I'll show you to the bathroom.”
Lina opened the door “I don't have an en-suite one like Carl has. He truly has the nicest apartment on this floor.”
Matthew looked around for a bit and he turned around and saw that Lina already took her shirt off.
“Come on, out of your clothing, wuffy”, she grinned. 
The wolf took his jeans, shirt and underwear off. 
“I so love your black fur”, Lina said as she ran a claw over Matthew's chest. 
She reached out and gave the lupine a warm and wet lick over his muzzle before opening the glass door of the shower and turning on the water. 
“I'll wash you first, wuff”, she said, and she gesturing Matthew to step in with her. The wolf did so.
Lina grabbed the sponge and richly coated it with shampoo. 
“Turn around, Matty”
Matthew felt how the cheetah started to scrub and brush the shampoo into the fur on his back, his shoulder, and neck. He closed his eyes and leaned back against her. 
The feline asked him to turn around again, and she scrubbed his face, chest and legs. After that was done, she rinsed Matthews fur off with the shower-head. 
Suddenly he felt his sheath being pulled back, and a lukewarm stream running over his shaft. He gave Lina a rather surprised look.
“Those parts need cleaning too, silly!”, Lina smirked “Now turn around again and spread your legs”
Lina grabbed the wolf's tail and raised it. With the sponge she gently, but thoroughly cleaned his balls, and pucker.
“All done!”, she playfully yelled. “My turn now!”

The wolf took the sponge and rinsed it out until all traces of shampoo were gone before squirting a new amount on. 
He started to work his way down the cheetah's spotted body. Her back, neck, stomach, chest and legs. 
Lina reached out for a platform with various gels and shampoos, and gave Matthew a small bottle with a long, thin nozzle. The cheetah grinned as she saw how the lupine blankly stared at the label.
Matthew knelt down in front of the feline. Lina spread her legs slightly. Carefully the wolf parted the velvety lips of the cat's vulva with his digits, and inserted the slick nozzle. He squeezed the bottle a few times before pulling it out again. He then took the shower head and sponge and started cleaning the cheetah's underside.   
After Matthew got back up, Lina placed her paws on his shoulders. The wolf watched the water splashing off of her fur. They gazed into each other's eyes for a while before Lina gave Matthew a few licks on his nose.
The wolf grabbed the shower head and aimed it right at Lina's muzzle. Giggling, she quickly turned the water off before stepping out of the shower to grab a towel.
The cheetah draped it over both of her paws and stepped to Matthew, embracing him as she started to dry him off. After Matthew's fur was sufficiently dry, the wolf took his turn and toweled Lina off. 
“Feel like having dinner, Matt?” Lina asked as she walked out of the bathroom and to her wardrobe for some clean clothing.
The wolf put his clothes back on and stretched “Yeah, good plan. Let's go.”

“We're leaving here around six-thirty tomorrow morning then, Matthew?”, Carl asked.
“It's a ten minute walk, so a bit later will be just fine”, the wolf replied with his muzzle full of food.
“Mmm. I needed that”, Joe said with a satisfied sigh, followed by a thunderous belch.
Misha threw a towel to the tiger's head “You filthy pig!”
“Oi! I am only showing my appreciation for your cooking skills, Misha! In some cultures this would be highly appreciated, you know.”
“Yaright,” Misha snerked while she started to load the dishwasher.
Lina grabbed Matthew's paw “You're coming with me, wolfy?”
Carl grinned. Both Joe and Misha looked to Carl, then to Matthew and Lina. 
“Eh...?”, Joe started, but Misha cut him off by a firm poke in his side.

Lina and Matthew sat on the side of the cheetah's bed. The feline stretched out elaborately and leaned in against the wolf, placing a paw on his left thigh.
He watched and felt how her paw make its way up to the buttons of his jeans. Lina effortlessly unbuttoned those. She got up off the bed and gestured the wolf to follow her example.
Matthew stood up. The cheetah instantly tugged the lupine's jeans and underwear off. 
Standing in front of him, she undressed herself. The wolf once again looked at the shape of her body, her sandy colored fur with the black dots. Her white thighs, her nipples in two neat rows at the left and right side of her belly. His gaze went up to her fuzzy chest, muzzle and finally her eyes.
“Like what you see, black wolf?”
“Very much so”
Matthew's paws moved alongside the cheetah until they rested on her shoulders.
“You're so beautiful, Lina”
Lina giggled shyly, then rubbed the lupine's chest with one of her claws “So are you, Matty.”
Matthew slowly moved his head closer to Lina's. Moments before his muzzle would touch hers, he felt her two paws grabbing his neck and shoulders. She parted her lips slightly and softly exhaled onto the wolf's nose and lips. Matthew closed his eyes as he felt the felines' warm and moist breath blow over his muzzle. Just as he eagerly inhaled her sweet breath, he felt her warm and bristly tongue over his nosepad. He shivered as he took in the mixed scents of her breath and saliva.
He opened his maw and rubbed it against hers. His broad, soft tongue brushing against Lina's smooth lips before it met hers. 
The muzzles of the lupine and the cheetah locked together in a tight seal.
Still kissing, Lina pushed herself over onto the bed, pulling Matthew along with her in her embrace. 
The wolf felt both her claws go over his sheath. He gasped inside the cheetah's muzzle. Her skillful paws, just as gentle and soft as they were back when she was cleaning him, started to fondle him. It wasn't long before the wolf's knot started to bulge up. 
“D'awww”, Lina cood, breaking the kiss “Seems like someone's getting a little excited here. Now, lets help you out there a bit, wolfy. Don't want you to get all knotty and stuck in that fuzzy sheath of yours”
Matthew panted softly. He realized he had little to say or do in this position. Not that he cared about that. 
Lina pushed her left paw under the wolf's lower back “Roll onto your right side, Matty”, she  whispered softly. 
Wondering why, he did what she wanted. He felt how his body rolled against hers. “Good. Now relax and let me help you with that little bump down there.”
She pushed the wolf's sheath back with a few digits of one paw. She lifted one leg a little bit and pushed her hips tighter against Matthew's. With her right paw digits, she parted the velvety lips of her vulva.

The lupine felt the cheetah manipulated him. For a split second he wondered what she was doing. But then a warm wall of bliss almost knocked him out. He sensed a silky smooth, warm softness all around his shaft. Suddenly he didn't have any doubts about what Lina was doing. He felt himself slide in deeper and deeper, until the bulge at the base of his shaft pressed against the cheetah's lips. He felt how the feline shivered and then made a powerful thrust, taking the wolf into her completely. 
Matthew opened his eyes, his gaze meeting Lina's. 
They stared into each others eyes for a few moments. The cheetah started to ride against the wolf causing him to grind his teeth together, moaning. He gave in to what his body craved and started to thrust back. 
Kissing deeply, the wolf and cheetah passionately mated with each other.
Lina panted loudly, Matthew's shaft rubbing and pressing against all the right spots inside of her. 
Matthew broke the kiss to lick at her nose and muzzle. He reached down with a paw and started to caress her firm nipples. 
Gently taking some of the heads between his digits, he rolled and kneaded them.
With a loud and deep mrowl, the feline climaxed. Her vaginal muscles clamping down on Matthew's member firmly. The wolf tilted his back and howled loudly as he orgasmed inside of the feline.

They laid there in each others arms. Lina stroked the wolf's headfur softly. 
“So, for how long am I stuck to you now, wolfy?”
“For a good while, kitty”
She purred contently, rubbing her cheek against his, giving the wolf's nose a few licks.
A bit later, Matthew's orgasm faded away, and he slided out of the feline.
Lina just kept herself cuddled closely up against the wolf. 
Neither of the two wanted to get up, despite it still being early in the evening. It wasn't long before they both were sound asleep.

Matthew opened his eyes in the dark. For a moment he didn't realize where he was. Once again, he reached out for the illusive light switch on his left side. This time however, something grabbed his paw, and he felt a warm moistness all over. 
The lights switched on and he saw Lina nibbling on his paw. With a chuckle, she let go. He rolled over towards her. She embraced the lupine and pressed her lips onto his. A long and deep kiss followed.
“I feel so sorry about having to get up now”, Matthew said disappointed. 
“But you and Carl are going on a road trip together!”, Lina smiled.
“Yeah, you are right about that”, he smiled as he got up. “Well, I still have an hour before I need to get up. Might as well take a shower.”
“Mmhmm. Wait for me, wolfy. Since you're only a little puppy, you need someone to wash your back”, she winked.
After showering together, both got dressed and went to the kitchen. Carl was there already.
Carl looked at Lina and Matthew. Both sat down without saying a word, just grinning widely.
The collie laughed loudly and wished them both a good morning. 
The three had breakfast. 
“Carl, mind if I hopped by your apartment for a bit? I need to fetch my bag and pack some clothing.” Matthew asked.
Lina stood up “Well, I have to go shortly.” She walked over to where Matthew was sitting and she hugged him. “I so loved being with you, wolfy.”
Matthew smiled “I loved it too, Lina.”
She smiled “Now, I'll see you both later this week OK?  Carl, you please watch over our favorite wolf-cub while you two are on the road?”
“Sure thing, Lina.” 
The cheetah walked by the collie and gave him a nuzzle and lick before walking out of the kitchen.
Carl stood up “Come on, lets go fetch your stuff.”
Matthew nodded “Yeah. It's about time to make our way out. I want to be a bit early to check over some stuff.”
Both walked out of the kitchen.