* Please Review! I really love Jerry and Winter so here they are! Please read Her Choice to see how they got to this point and to understand Winter more.*

Jerry stalked through the basement of their house. He knew just where his wife was but he liked to pretend like he was hunting her. It was fun to him. He had shut down their bond so he knew she knew he was coming for her. He only shut the bond off when he was stalking her. Sometimes she would play along and hide somewhere in their house. He was so good at stalking that every time he found her, it scared her. She would scream, enhancing their play. But that night, she was at the computer, working on her book.

Jerry grabbed the sliding doors to their den. He pushed them open and stared hard into her back. When the doors clicked into their place, he started towards her slowly. He came up to her back and bent down. He wrapped his hand around her throat and brought his fangs down. They stopped right against the skin at her shoulder. Her eyes closed right away.

" I'm hungry." He hissed out.

" One hour, Jay. I just need one hour." She whispered.

" Let me snack on you." He continued to hiss.

" I can't, you know what that does to me." Winter said. Jerry tighten his hold on her throat then slowly let his tongue make a line up her neck. She shuddered. " Jay." He let her go and came around the front of her. He took a her hand and pulled her up. " Jay, I have to work."

" You have to feed your mate." He said as held her arms out and interlaced their fingers together. He pulled her to him and brought his mouth to her neck. " Don't try and deny that you don't want me." He whispered into her skin. Winter's eyes were still closed.

" How would you know? You shut our bond down." She whispered. In the next second, he blew the bond wide open, rushing her with his thoughts, feelings, and images of what he wanted to do to her. He pushed his wants and feelings into her so hard, Winter's knees buckled and she moaned. Her sex started aching for him. " That's not fair." She moaned. He chuckled as he dropped her hands to grab her throat again.

" It's not fair to keep me waiting." He growled.

He tilted her head hard and sank his fangs into her neck. She cried out and grabbed him. Jerry wrapped his free arm around her waist to keep her from falling. He drank hard from her for a few seconds before he brought her to the floor. She laid on her back with him still attracted to her throat. His hands roamed her body while she trembled. Drinking from each other was as sexual an act as performing oral sex. They could have, and had a few times, orgasms from the drinking alone so when he felt hers building he pulled out of her.

Winter started undressing herself quickly. Jerry grinned and joined her. Yanking her pants and panties down, ripping her shoes off. He opened his pants and pulled himself out. He scratched across his chest, bring some ripples of blood out. Winter's eyes darken and she growled at the sight. He brought his chest to her mouth and entered her as she latched onto him. He pumped into her hard as she drank. This wasn't going to last long and they both knew it. One of his hands was on the back of her head, holding her to him, while the other was on the floor. Her legs were spread wide as they moved and thrust together.

" Ah, fuck..." He hissed out. Her mouth pulled away as she came. Her body tensed, she squeezed her eyes shut and she clawed at the carpet. He brought his forehead to hers and hit her hard before he joined her orgasm. There was a mixture of moans, groans, soft pants and loud cursing.

When they started to come down, he laid fully on top of her. His head was turned towards her and his eyes were closed. Winter kissed him gently and smiled while she sighed. Her content flowed through him. They were both completely relaxed and comfortable. One thing he loved about having a bond with her was that he didn't have to talk because she knew what he was feeling. There was no guessing between the two of them. They were connected and would always be.

" I love you but I have to work. Everyone will be in an hour or so and I need to get that chapter finished." She said.

They were having the vampires in the area to their house to announce that they were mated. When a vampire became mated to another vampire, a ceremony of sorts was given. It showed to the other vampires that they were off limits. If another vampire tried to move in on a mated vampire, the intruding vampire could be put to death. Jerry had been to a few of the ceremonies and had always hated them. He thought they were dull and useless but now he couldn't wait to make his claim on her.

" Are you excited, Love?" He asked as he came on his knees. Winter smiled and sat up to grab her clothes.

" I'm excited, nervous and scared." She said. She stood up and started slipping her panties on.

" What are you nervous for?" He asked, adjusting himself.

" Well, we have never drank from each other in front of people. It's always been a private thing, between us. It feels almost like we are going to be having sex in front of them." She said.

" Some mated couples do have sex during the ceremony." He said as they dressed.

" You have seen that?" She asked in shock. Jerry smiled and moved towards her. He started doing up her zipper and the button of her jeans.

" I have. Some males feel it is needed to prove their mate belongs to them." He said.

" I do not want that." She said quickly.

" Neither do I. I don't like the idea of any of those bastards seeing you naked or knowing what you look like when you're cumming. That is for me and me only." Jerry said. " But some males want others to see their partners naked or to see how their partners orgasm. Some males think it proves how strong and how much of a male they are. Some think it will prove to others that they can pleasure their mates but I don't need it. I know I please you. I know how to bring you pleasure and I don't need to prove to anyone that you orgasm under me." He said. She laughed as she flushed.

" Yeah, you do." She said. She stepped away and back over to the computer where she sat down. He walked behind her and started to rub her shoulders.

" Don't be nervous, Love. It will be fine. Raphel will be there and his clan. You know all of them. There will only be a few here that you have never met. It will be simple and easy. I drink from your throat and you drink from my wrist then it's over." He reassured her.

" This is like a human wedding, isn't it?" She asked.

" Yeah, only we can't get divorced." He said. " The only way we can be broken up, be an unmated couple is if we both agree to it, if we both released each other but even then it will be hard since I am your maker." He kissed the top of her head. " Get to work, Love. I will leave you alone for a while." He gave her shoulders a final squeeze before he left the den, closing the doors behind him.

Jerry had collected enough money throughout his long life that she didn't need to work but Winter was not comfortable living off of him. She brought in her own money from writing and selling her paintings under a different name. As far as the human world was concerned, Winter Collins had disappeared from her hospital room one night and was never seen again. She had been so sick at the time, the hospital told the police she couldn't have lived more then two hours after her disappearance. The doctors and staff there had went to court, stating that. All of her asserts had been released to Jerry as it stated in her will.

Jerry wandered through the hallway of their home. He had shut down their bond again because it helped her work. She needed a clear head and he understood that. Plus he didn't want her to get any more nervous or upset about the ceremony. She was a vampire herself but that didn't mean she was comfortable around their kind. She was new, only 9 months into the change, and still held onto some of her human ways. He was nervous because he knew of some of the vampires that were going to be coming that night. Some of the women he had been with sexually, although Winter didn't know that and he wasn't going to tell her. Before her, Jerry had been ruthless and over sexed. He would fuck anything that was female and spread her legs. He took lives and never looked back. Being with Winter had changed him for the best. She knew he had a ruthless side as he had once talked to her about his plan to build a vampire hive but she still didn't know how bad or evil he had been and he wanted to keep it that way.

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He let her work for another hour before he returned to the den. He walked into her clicking away on the computer. He strolled over to her and ran his fingers down then up her arms. He kissed the top of her head and watched as she saved her work. She shut the menus down then turned the computer off. Without a word she tilted her head up and looked at him. Jerry smiled down at her.

" Are you ready, Love? They will be here anytime." He said softly. He brought his hands to her throat and started to stroke her gently.

' I'm scared.' Her words slipped through his mind. Her eyes reflecting how she felt.

" There is no need to be scared. They are like you are now. None of them will come for you. None of them will try and hurt you or drink from you. You are mine and they all know it. None of them would ever cross me." He promised his mate as he continued to stroked her. She nodded and sighed. He smiled again. " Have I told you how much I love that you are still so human in your thinking and feelings?"

" It doesn't both you that I don't feel like a vampire?" She asked. He shook his head.

" No, Love. Nothing about you bothers me. I fell for you when you were human. I turned you into a vampire so I would never have to lose you. Now come on, I hear those low life dicks outside right now. The sooner we let them in, the sooner they can leave. I'm going to get all sex up and horny when you start drinking from me so we need to get this done. As soon as they leave we are fucking and it's going to feel amazing." He said, making her smile and laugh.

" It's amazing every time." She said.

Jerry took his wife's hand and gently pulled her up. To the vampires, she was his mate and he was hers. To the human world, she was his wife and he was her husband. He had given her a ring and he was wearing one too even though the vampires don't use wedding rings. There was no need. His scent was all over her as hers was on him. He was in her blood and she was in his. Any vampire that got close to her would smell him on her.

They locked their fingers together and started walking as their doorbell rang. They walked out into the hallway and up the stairs. She swallowed hard and let him take the lead. He walked over to the front door then faced her. He brought her fingers to his lips and kissed them. Than he enclosed her hand with his. He smiled, hoping to reassure her.

' The others are going to want to talk to you but I am only a few thoughts away from you.' He thought. Winter nodded. ' I love you.'

' I love you.' She sent back.