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“May I?” Alexis asked again.

Katie shook herself from her thoughts. “Yes, sorry.”

Alexis tenderly unwrapped her neck bandage, and Katie winced asthe pad covering her bite was eased off.

“Sorry,” Alexis said.

“It’s okay. How does it look?”

Katie watched as Alexis examined her wound, and her eyes startedto flame red, the colour a vampire’s eyes became when they felt extremes ofemotion.

“What’s wrong? Is it that bad?” Katie asked.

Alexis stared silently at her wound, becoming tense with utterfury, it seemed.

“Alexis? Is the wound worse?”

Alexis closed her eyes and shook her head. When she opened them,Alexis looked at her and said with passion and anger, “I hate seeing her biteon you. If I ever find Josie, I won’t break her neck—I’ll sever her head fromher shoulders, so she’ll never harm a human again.”

Katie was taken aback with her honesty. Her heart beat heavily,and her stomach flipped in response to Alexis’s passion. Alexis did feel deeply—shewas sure of it now.

Alexis must have seen her silence as fear of her fury, because shetook a breath and said, “I’m sorry. I hate to see a vampire use such violencein an attempt to feed. New bloods often do, and some vampires never learn totake what they need with care and respect.”

“I know—some are rougher than others, but my best experience cameto me when I was new to giving blood.”

Alexis looked away, clearly not wanting to hear about anexperience she’d had with another vampire.

“Alexis?” Katie touched Alexis’s chin and made her look up to her.“It was you. I was a blood virgin, and you slowly, kindly eased me through myfirst experience. I’ve never had anything close to that feeling that gaveme”—Katie moved her hand to caress Alexis’s cheek—“but then you ran.”

Alexis covered her hand with hers and took a breath. “Katie, I ranthat day because…”

Finally, Alexis was going to explain, to tell her the truth aboutthat day. “Why, tell me?”

Alexis shuffled forward on her knees and put her arms on Katie’swaist. “I ran because—” Suddenly Alexis’s phone started to ring and the intensemoment was gone. Alexis pulled the phone from her pocket and said, “Sorry. Ihave to take it.”

Alexis got up and walked over to the fireplace to talk.

Katie could have screamed. Alexis was so close to acknowledgingwhat happened that day and talking about her feelings, and the moment was gone.

* * *

Amelia was back at the cabin sitting at the kitchen table, whileByron made a phone call. Something had changed inside her, but what she didn’tknow. The voices that she had discovered and heard in the circle were stillthere but were only a muffled whisper, a mishmash of voices, and she couldn’ttease them apart.

She tapped her fingers against the kitchen table incessantly. Sinceshe’d left the circle, it felt like she had brought the energy from it withher. Her nerves were buzzing. It was most intense in her sex and her nipplesand made her long for the touch of her lover to ease her need.

Byron walked back in the door and Amelia jumped up.

“Everything all right?” Amelia asked.

“Yes, I just had to call the office. Are you okay? You look alittle tense and jumpy.”

Amelia walked over to Byron, unbuttoned her coat, and slipped itoff. She loosened Byron’s tie and slipped her hands under her collar. “I justfeel full of energy. Do you need to feed?”

Byron smiled. “Do you want me to feed?”

Instead of answering Amelia kissed Byron and jumped, wrapping herlegs around her waist. They kissed feverishly, and Amelia just felt hotter bythe second. There was a torrent of energy inside her, and it was desperate toget out.

Byron carried her into the bedroom, and between kisses they pulledat each other’s clothes. Amelia saw Byron’s eyes were red, and it just made herwant her all the more.

Amelia was naked, but Byron still had her jockey shorts on. Ameliacouldn’t wait and pulled Byron onto the bed on top of her. The need inside herwas stronger than she had ever felt, and the utter bliss she experienced whenByron sucked her nipple and grasped the other breast was painfully good.

“I need you inside me, Byron. Fuck me, or I’m going to explode.”

Byron grazed her teeth down her neck, teasing her for that firstbite and suck of her blood. It wasn’t fast enough for Amelia. She wasoverwhelmed and needed to set the pace herself.

She pushed Byron onto her back and straddled her. “Let me?”

Byron smiled. “Whatever you want, mia cara.”

Amelia slipped Byron’s strap-on out of her underwear and pumped itwith her hand a few times, making Byron moan as she watched her.

“I need your cock,” Amelia said in a low voice.

She was so turned on that her hands had a slight quiver in them.All she knew was that she needed Byron inside her, or she would explode.

Amelia eased the strap-on inside her and didn’t take her timegetting used to the feel. She pushed it deep and started to thrust. Bryonreached up and squeezed her breasts. They were on fire at her touch.

She leaned over and kissed Byron, sucking her lip and teasing herfangs with her tongue.

“You feel so good, mia cara,” Byron moaned.

The muffled voices were getting louder in her head and seemed toincrease with every thrust she took. Amelia’s heart hammered like it was goingto explode.

“I need to come,” Amelia said in a desperate voice. She sat up andleaned against Byron’s legs.

“I love you,” Byron said.

“I love you.” She held out her wrist to Byron and said, “Feed fromme when I come.”

Byron nodded and took her hand, peppering it with kisses, then scratchingher wrist with her teeth.

Amelia closed her eyes, and her head fell backward. Her hips hadsettled into a slow, deep rhythm, and with each thrust the voices in her headgot louder. Her head was starting to swim, her body to shake, as her orgasm approached.

It was going to be too powerful, too much, but she couldn’t stop,not any more. Her hips sped up, and she moaned deeply, almost as if in pain.All the need and desperate want was ready to explode