She laughed softly. A gravelly, painful sound. But it reached her dark eyes. "We have always had time. And we have always found each other through time."

Her fingers reached out to find his face, her dark eyes blinking as she drug the tips against his stubbled jaw.

"Forgive me?" Selene looked up at him. "It has been so long and all I have wished for was to look upon you and see the man you were before I broke you. Come back to me, my love, please."

There was no man she would beg for. No man that could put her on her knees or get her to risk her life for other than him. In her long life of mistakes he had been the one thing that had been right. "I need blood, my love."