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

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

* * *

Amelia was back at the cabin sitting at the kitchen table, while Byron made a phone call. Something had changed inside her, but what she didn’t know. The voices that she had discovered and heard in the circle were still there but were only a muffled whisper, a mishmash of voices, and she couldn’t tease them apart.

She tapped her fingers against the kitchen table incessantly. Since she’d left the circle, it felt like she had brought the energy from it with her. Her nerves were buzzing. It was most intense in her sex and her nipples and 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 a little tense and jumpy.”

Amelia walked over to Byron, unbuttoned her coat, and slipped it off. She loosened Byron’s tie and slipped her hands under her collar. “I just feel 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 her legs around her waist. They kissed feverishly, and Amelia just felt hotter by the second. There was a torrent of energy inside her, and it was desperate to get out.

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

Amelia was naked, but Byron still had her jockey shorts on. Amelia couldn’t wait and pulled Byron onto the bed on top of her. The need inside her was stronger than she had ever felt, and the utter bliss she experienced when Byron 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 first bite and suck of her blood. It wasn’t fast enough for Amelia. She was overwhelmed 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 it with 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.