“I’m sorry you felt you had to do that, but not any more.”

“Not any more. I want to show you what I hungered to share with you that day. Do you trust me?”

“Always,” Amelia said without hesitation.

Byron smiled, and quickly got up to get one of her ties. She knew how much Amelia loved to be restrained, and Byron adored to see her strain at her bonds as she made her come.

She held up the tie, and said, “Do you wish this?”

Byron got her answer from Amelia’s broad smile, but she reinforced her desire for it by holding her wrists together above her head and saying, “Yes, please, Principe.”

If she lived to be five thousand years old, she would never find someone as perfect for her as Amelia. After being so out of control for so long with the blood sickness, it was nice to exert some control again.

She tied up Amelia’s wrists, and lay back on top of her again. “I’m so sorry I left you. I don’t know how I survived without you.”

“You did what you thought was the right thing, and you always do the noble thing, but never again, Byron. I have to know everything, and have a say in my future. I have to be your partner in everything.”

“Of course,” Byron said, then sealed her promise with a deep kiss. She then began to kiss her way down to Amelia’s breasts. As gently as she could, she grazed Amelia’s nipple with her fang.

Amelia jumped in surprise, but then grasped the back of Byron’s head. “Yes, again, sweetheart.”

This time Byron sucked her nipple all the way into her wet mouth, and rolled it with her tongue, pressing it against her sharp fang.

Amelia seemed to love this. She gasped, “God, Byron. Yes, like that. Touch me, please, at the same time. I’ll come.”

Byron let her nipple go with an audible pop, and said, “I can do better than that. I want to show you something special.”

Amelia could only watch her partner kiss her way down her body, using her fangs to trace their way over her sensitive skin. It was so much more exciting making love with Byron as a vampire, not only because she wasn’t hiding anything and because she was with the most powerful vampire alive, a vampire capable of killing and ripping her enemy’s throat out, but also because that same vampire was showing her so much gentleness and tenderness, because she loved her.

As Byron reached the fine hair just below her stomach, Amelia just had to say, “I love you, Byron.”

Byron gazed up at her with passion and love, and replied, “I love you too.”

Amelia had to lie back when Byron eased open her legs further and began to kiss intimately. Her hips were rocking and she ached to be filled. “Go inside.”