"Can we stop now?" Victoria complained. "I'm hungry." She pouted as they came to a halt in the middle of some forest. She looked to her lover, let her lip jut out. She knew it always worked.

James reached out and touched Victoria's face. "Sure baby." Their companion stood a few paces away; rolling his eyes. James tipped his head back and smiled. "Ah…"

"Do you smell something?" Victoria smiled and perked up.

"Lets go." James just smiles, his eyes going dark with hunger.

Victoria smiled predatorily as James wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her lips hard. He felt her bite into lip and moaned.

They pulled back when they heard someone clear their throat.

"Are you two done yet?"

"Laurent, they couldn't run if they wanted to, ain't that right baby?" James asked the red headed minx kissing his neck and running her hand under his shirt.

Laurent just gave him a look, sighing.

James rolls his eyes, "Fine food first."

Victoria smacks James ass before running ahead finally catching the scent over all the forest and animals in the area. They arrived at a clearing where 2 humans were camped out by a fire, kissing.

"Nothing like aroused bodies and warm blood..." Victoria purred. She stepped out in the open growling low scaring the teenagers apart. The male stood first. Victoria slowly approached him running her hand over his chest and circling him.

He stood there shaken by Victoria's appearance. The girl spoke slowly, "What are you doing?"

Victoria flashes her fangs at the couple, "I'm here for a snack, how about you?"

The boy steps away from Victoria to clutch the girl's hand.

"What are you?" The girl says, "What do you want from us?"

Victoria puts her hands on her hips and looks over the scared teenager's shoulders. "James."

James came from hiding. "They always ask the same thing."

James nodded approaching the young girl. 'What do you want?" he taunted the girl before touching her hair. Victoria liked to watch her man play with their prey. She watched the boy shifting on his feet. She could smell the fear and the anger, and a bit of arousal still left over.

"Don't touch her." Before he could even attempt to lunge himself at her mate, Victoria grabbed the boy by the hair, James continued his pointless mind game, "Why are you doing this?"

"Ding you stole the words right out of my mouth." James smiled as he slowly pulled the girls hair away from her neck, watching the boy's reaction to his torment of the girl.

Victoria was getting impatient as she watched them play their game. She just wanted food. James liked to play so she amused him. She watched Laurent approach from and smiled as the look he made whenever he was hungry. A feral animal is what she'd call it.

"Let them hold each other. Give them some peace they'll die together." Laurent stood behind the girl touching her arm with his fingertips. Victoria let the boy go pushing him to the center of the group. The girl stumbled to the boy and cowered together.

"Let's eat." She purred at James. She lunged for the boy pushing him into the dirt on his back. She licked his neck growling, "We'll take the boy."

Laurent grabbed the girl and bit into her neck, taking her away from the campsite.

James knelt by Victoria and her struggling captive as he watched his girlfriend scream nd be dragged away, "Bon appetit."

James and Victoria finished up their meal first. They started a fire for the corpse. Laurent came back with the dead girl and tossed her on the fire, with the other body.

"Oh, they left us clothes." Victoria yelped happily. She looked down at her bloody top and pulled it over her head; not hiding her nakedness. She scavenged through the clothes and found a green shirt tank top, jeans and boots a size to big. She walked over to James. "How do I look?"

James had been watching the entire time as she stripped naked and went through the clothes. "You look great baby..." James loved her slender body and her perfect breasts. Her small waist always drove him crazy when she wanted it from behind.

He got closer and looked at her shirt, "Kiss me I'm Irish." He laughed and picked her up. 'I'll kiss you alright.", he pushed her against a tree claiming her lips in a fiery kiss, nipping and sucking as she moaned grinding her pelvis down into him.

"Do it James please."

"Not until I say so. "He purred pulling away from held on with her legs around his waist as he pulled the shirt over her head catching a rosy nipple in his mouth.

Victoria's back arched off the tree sending them to the ground. ""Oh, I love you." She kissed up his chest and smiled up at him.

Fingers entwined in her hair and pulled. Green eyes connected with brown eyes. "NO one else but me."

"Never." She promised.

They never heard Laurent leave.

….

Laurent paced the forest waiting for them to finish. He hated being in the group sometimes. But James's thirst for power and a challenge, never ceased to amaze him. Then his beauty of a mate was always a sight for sore eyes, Victoria took his breath away.

James never once said I love you back to her. He had "more or less" laid a claim to her and no one else could have his trophy mate.

A twig snapping made him turn and his eyes connected with another. She pounced on him tackling him to the ground," What are you doing in my forest?"

Laurent laid in shock as the blonde ringlets hovered above him. He flipped her and stood. She countered finding her feet and crouching.

"I am merely enjoying the fresh air."

"No one enjoys fresh air here. I smell death on you. Did you kill someone here?" Laurent noticed her gold irises; they darkened just a moment and returned to gold once more.

"two campers a few miles east of here, happened to be in my path…"

"You cannot kill here, it is under my protection." She declared.

"I do apologize I meant no disrespect. My coven is close by with me. We will leave your land in peace."

"Yes, take your coven and go."

Laurent wanted to ask her a few questions, but she turned and left without another word.

….

Laurent returned to his coven love birds as they were done dressing. After feeding Victoria always had a flush color about her and other things too.

"Oh, Laurent look through some of the clothes buddy." James chided as he stood shirtless by a duffel bag he pulled out a leather jacket and looked it over before he tried it on for size. Victoria looked through what she assumed was the girl's things and found a necklace and a ring.

"Hey babe."

James looked at his mate and smiled at the necklace she presented to him, "I love it."

"I know you like a trophy." Victoria smiled sheepishly.

James smiled stretching and inhaling the air. He turned toward Laurent and frowned, "Did you meet someone out there on your walk?"

"Yes, a vampire from a coven?" Laurent looked away and back between James's piercing gaze and the forest.

"Olympic coven?"

"No, they are supposed to be towns away. I doubt it. She exhibited no strength or power I couldn't fight."

"She just let you go?"

"Of course. She just requests we not kill on her territory." Laurent was not going to tell James how she demanded. James would probably enjoy the challenge.

James just shrugs, "Well since she asks so nicely, we will go. After all that is who we are here for, aren't we?"

"After we find them what will we do?"

"This super coven is something I have to see for myself. I bet they dine like Gods."

If any one noticed the gleam of jealousy and intrigue in James eyes and voice, it was Victoria. He had been obsessed with finding this coven for a while now, "Well I would hate to miss that!" Victoria cut in, "Maybe we could they say there is a festival close by according to a flyer I found in the girl's bag. They must have passed a town somewhere hosting it."

James looked at his love, she always knew how to cheer him up.