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Wolfie Steel: Private Eye

Written by Wolfie Steel

Part 5.

I now realise that I am in much need of a drink, for years alcohol has not passed into my muzzle, but today I decide to head to the main house where I know Linkin and Todd will be hard at work. I take the five minute walk to the main house; I am greeted at the rear entrance to the house by the great dog himself, taking some of the pleasant early afternoon air.

"Well as I live and breathe, do mine Argentine eyes deceive me or is this Mr. Wolfie Steel, ace Private Eye that is heading to my door?"

A nervous giggle leaves my muzzle as I stand in front of my boss.

"Oh a nervous giggle from Wolfie, I haven't heard that for a few years, I'm thinking that maybe any work I have on for today has just been cancelled due to staff management"

I tilt my head a little in confusion; Linkin sees my confused face and continues.

"Get your Lupine arse inside now, you need a drink and then you need to tell me what is going on in that head of yours"

Linkin leads the way inside the house and I see Mr. Styles tending to his daily duties.

"Mr. Styles, please bring two large glasses of beer into my study and then take any messages as I will be out of touch for the majority of the day"

The Fox gently nods his head and begins preparing our drinks, while Linkin and I head into the study. Once inside the study, Linkin motions for me to take a seat on one of the soft couches which I do without question, he then takes a seat next to me. As we get comfortable on the couch Todd brings the drinks into the room on a silver tray and then deposits the tray onto Linkin's desk, he then wordlessly leaves the study and closes the door. Linkin now looks into my eyes, our muzzle mere inches away.

"Okay Wolfie spill the beans, what is going on?"

I let out a gentle but shaky sigh.

"Trip has been meddling in my love life, now before you go off and bust his buns don't bother, I have already given him a warning, but thinking about it, I really need to get back on the dating circuit, and in actual fact I have just emailed a possible candidate"

Linkin raises an eye brow.

"I want details, and I want them now!"

I reach up and take my glass of beer and take a good swig from it, I place it back on the tray and then make my reply.

"Well Linkin, if all goes well, there will be another Doberman in my life"

I take the photograph of Tyler from my wallet where I had placed it for safe keeping and handed it to Linkin; he scanned the picture with his approving eyes before handing the picture back to me and replying.

"You know Wolfie, you never cease to amaze me, you get knocked down time and time again and yet you just stand up, raise your index finger to the world and come bouncing back, and you do it with style, take your partners Tony and Calvin, both of whom were real lookers, then there is Mikey and Leo, again two stunners if you don't mind me saying so, and now possible mate number three, Tyler, a grade A fucking Doberman no less, well I have to take my hat off to you Wolfie. Now take a little advice from me please, if Tyler does become a Steel, and I have very little doubt that he won't, I want you to start taking things a little easier, spend more time with him than you do on your case load, you deserve a little bit of happiness now and you don't need to be burying another lover. I'm sorry to be so blunt, I guess that is the Argentinean in me, but I hope you get my meaning?"

Linkin places a strong paw on my shoulder as he reaches up for his beer, I then mirror his motions and we both sit there and continue our heart to heart while we finish our drinks. I have now been with Linkin for most of the afternoon, just talking about this and that, and what I will do if I get a first date with Tyler. I look at my watch and see that it is 4:45pm and so I stand from the couch and shake Linkin's paw to thank him for his time, I then pick up the tray with the now empty glasses on it and I take them into the kitchen where Todd takes them from me.

With that done I make the journey back to the house where I hope that an email reply is waiting for me. As I walk into my computer room I take Tyler's photo from my wallet again and then hold it against my heart, I take a seat at my desk and bring the computer out of hibernation mode. I click on my email service and watch as it downloads any emails that I have received, I notice that most of them are junk and are dealt with accordingly, but then one catches my attention, it is a reply from Tyler Hawkins. My paw hovers over my mouse and shakes a little, I'm afraid to open the message for fear of its content; it is then that I'm given a helpful nudge by Leo.

"For the love of god dad, open the message, it's not as if it is an exploding bomb for crying out loud"

At this, Leo presses his paw down on mine that in turn presses the mouse button to open the message. Leo is right of course the message is not an exploding device, it is just some words on a screen, and so I decide to read the reply.

"Dear Wolfie, thank you for sending me your email, I feel touched that a wonderful Wolf such as yourself would be interested in me, I know that right about now you are expecting a rejection email in response, but if truth be told I would love to meet up with you. I have spoken with some of my friends who have heard of the name Wolfie Steel and when I told them that you had emailed me asking for a meeting, the one thing that they all said was "DO IT" I think therefore I'm going to follow what they have all said, after all, not all of them can be wrong, so there is a restaurant on the outskirts of London called O'Malley's, if you know it and you feel like meeting, I will meet you there at 8pm tonight, I look forward to meeting you, yours ever hopefully, Tyler"

I look at my watch again and see 5pm, shit that gives me just three hours to get ready, I need to shower, I need to press my suit, I need to try and buy him a gift, I need to...

Leo slaps me gently across the head.

"Get your arse into the shower now, I will press your suit and shirt while Mikey goes out and gets you a little something to give your date, and then what you need to do is have fun, now go"

Had this been any other time I would have given my son a good spanking as punishment for speaking to me like that, but here and now I realise that he is right and so I quickly head to the shower and start getting myself looking presentable.

After an hour in the shower I walk to my dressing table and open the top drawer, I find the special brush I use when going out to meet someone special, I begin to brush through my fur, but the nerves inside me make it impossible for me to brush myself, enter Mikey, he takes the brush from my paw and begins to brush my fur the way I like it to be brushed, I'm standing there as naked as the day I was born and I'm allowing one of my sons to groom me, but we both know that there is nothing sexual behind what is happening, it is just a time of some father/son bonding. Once Mikey has finished my grooming he places the brush down on my dressing table and then silently leaves my room.

I find my neatly and freshly pressed shirt and suit hanging on the door handle and so I quickly put it on, it's then that Mikey re-enters my room with a small old looking box in his paw.

"Dad, I didn't get chance to go out and buy something for your date tonight, but I do have this"

Mikey slowly opens the little box and inside is an 18 carat gold signet ring, I look at his face and I see tears starting to form in his eyes, he then continues to speak.

"This signet ring was my real dad's, when he died in the car crash the Police gave it back to me, dad it belonged to a good man, I want it to belong to another good man"

By now the tears were flowing from Mikey's eyes, I too am crying hard as I take Mikey in a tight hug.

"Mikey, I just don't know what to say... but thank you, it means the world to me, as do you and Leo"

With my emotions slowly getting back under control I'm about to pick up my car keys when a Doberman paw stops me, my eyes look up from the paw and up to its owner, Leo is standing there in a stunning dress suit, complete with a chauffer's hat that he has borrowed from Linkin's new driver.

"Tonight dad, you are not driving, I will be your driver for the evening, and I promise that I won't get in the way of any... fun you might have later"

Leo gives me a suggestive wink as he lets out a giggle; he then takes the car keys from my paw and leads me out to the waiting car. We arrive at the restaurant with ten minutes to spare, Leo places his paw on top of mine and he can feel it shaking.

"Dad, I know that you are nervous about meeting Tyler, but think on this, he is probably just as nervous about meeting you, so please just go inside the restaurant, find your date and have a good time, I will find somewhere to park, once you are done just call me and tell me what is happening"

I give off a little sigh as I try to get my nerves back under control, which for me at this moment is easier said than done, but I finally get out of the car and head towards the entrance to the restaurant. I am greeted by the maître de, a tall and skinny Leopard dressed in the restaurants uniform.

"Good evening sir, do you have a reservation?"

I begin to get the shakes again as I answer.

"I'm here to meet a Mr. Tyler Hawkins"

The Leopard looks down the list of names in front of him.

"Ah yes, you must be Mr. Wolfie Steel, please follow me sir"

The Leopard leads me into the restaurant, we pass by well dressed patrons all eating what looks to be really nice food, all the time my eyes are scanning to see if I can pick out my date for the night, suddenly like a laser guided missile, my eyes lock onto their target. Sat at a table towards the back of the restaurant is the most beautiful looking Doberman that I have ever set eyes on, he is dressed much like me in a black suit with a white button down shirt. He is holding a glass of water and it is obvious to me that he is as nervous as what I am, I can clearly see the ripples in the glass of water that tell me his paws are shaking.

The maître de pulls out my chair and I gently place myself down onto the seat.

"Here is your menu sir I will leave you both to decide upon your meals"

The Leopard now heads away from our table and suddenly I'm alone with Tyler. A few seconds pass in total silence and so I decide to break the ice, I hold out my paw in the hope that he will take it in his; sure enough his shaky paw meets mine.

"Hi, my name is Wolfie, so please tell me that you are Tyler, because otherwise I have just been made a complete fool of"

This seems to calm Tyler down a lot as he starts to chuckle a little.

"Yes Wolfie, I am Tyler, and gods am I happy to meet you"

Oh my god, his paw feels wonderful in mine; he has such soft paw pads and a look to him that would melt even the hardest of hearts. With the ice now officially broken we begin to talk as we look at our menus, I learn that he has just broken up from a previous relationship which would normally sound quite a few alarm bells for me, but this guy seems different, and I can't quite put my claw on it, it's almost as though with others like this I would be walking into an endless heartache, but with Tyler I feel nothing but love and security, even after only just meeting him.

We order our meals and we continue to chat about anything and everything, I feel as though I have known Tyler for my whole life and yet this is our first meeting. As our meal continues I begin to get to the point where I wonder what the next step will be, will Tyler like me enough to warrant a second date? Will he come back to my place for the night? Or is this just a one night stand?

The meal comes to an end so I make up my mind, it's now or never.

"Look Tyler, I'm not going to lie to you, the fact that you are coming out of a previous relationship worries me, but at the same time I find myself falling for you big time, it's almost like I'm being told by a higher power that I should take a chance with you, so I would like to know what you think?"

The Doberman seems to give this some thought, while he looks me up and down, he then makes his reply.

"I'm going to be perfectly honest with you Wolfie, as you said I have just come out of a relationship, and yes at first I wanted nothing more to do with love, but then I got persuaded to add my details to the website that you found me on, I was sure that no one would even give me a second glance, and then I receive your email and then everything changed, something drove me to want to get to know you, I don't know about some divine unknown force leading me to you, but something made me answer your email, and then something pushed me out through the door of my house and all the way here, and I am glad that it did, because I have fallen for you too. It may seem a little forward, but I don't want to spend tonight alone"

I begin to feel a stirring deep within my sheath, and I see that Tyler has started to pant a little which means that he is probably feeling something too.

"Tyler, I too don't want to be alone tonight, or any night for that matter, so would you like to come and stay with me for the night and then we can see where things lead?"

Tyler blushes but gently nods his head.

"To be honest Wolfie, I did pack an overnight case which is in the trunk of my car... just in case"

I raise my paw to get the attention of the waiter, he arrives and I ask for the bill, as the waiter leaves to get the bill I take my phone from my jacket pocket and call Leo.

"Leo, I'm ready to go home so meet me outside the restaurant in five minutes, oh and drive home slow, we don't want to lose the car that will be following us"

Leo cheers over the phone and congratulates me on a job well done; I then end the call just as the waiter brings the bill. I use my gold card to settle the bill and then both Tyler and I stand from our seats, we then link paws and walk out from the restaurant.

We stand under the neon lights of the restaurant and the light reflects perfectly in Tyler's beautiful eyes, I give him a peck on the cheek and then our paws disengage. Tyler then runs back to his car and hastily gets into the driver's seat; the engine is running before the door is even closed. I sit in the passenger seat of my car and Leo slowly pulls away from the curb, as he does so I check the passenger side wing mirror and I watch as Tyler begins to follow us.

I know that there are furs out there that will say that I'm moving too fast and that I'm a fool for making rash decisions, but the feeling I get from Ty is the right one and I know that I am about to embark on a relationship that will last.