Dino looked over his head to see the ceiling become a mirror. Then he felt his legs being pulled further apart. He looked at him again. "Is this supposed to scare me?"

Tyler shrugged. "Personally, I don't give a d.a.m.n." He took a pair of cutting shears out of his pocket.

"Especially for leather."

"It appears you are well prepared," he replied, licking his lips. "But I suggest you feed me. I'm hungry."

Tyler eyed him. "And if I don't?"

"I'm liable to break these constraints and suck you dry." He met his gaze.

Tyler felt a hot flush move over his body. His c.o.c.k did something he hadn't felt it do in a long time, it began to throb.

Dino smiled at him. "That turn you on, Tyler?"

Tyler gave him a dirty look, then left the room.

A few minutes later he came back with a gla.s.s filled with blood. "Will this do?"

"Is it human?"

"Yes. It came from the blood bank."

He nodded.

Tyler brought it over and held the gla.s.s to his lips.

He drank it greedily.

When he took the gla.s.s away, a drop of blood lingered on his lips. Tyler watched his tongue dart out, sweeping it away.

He moaned inwardly, and put the empty gla.s.s aside.

Dino smiled seductively at him. "h.o.r.n.y as h.e.l.l, aren't you? Do you want me, Tyler?"

Tyler pursed his lips. "You shut up. I'm in charge. Don't talk."

"Anything you say," he grinned.

"This is not a joke," Tyler snapped.

Dino met his gaze. "I know that, my love."

"I'm not your love," Tyler told him.

Dino fell quiet and waited.

Tyler moved forward with the shears. He leaned down and cut up the length of one leg of his pants, then straight through up to the waist. One half of his pants fell away revealing the white bikini underwear he was wearing. His s.e.x swelled up over the waistband. He tried to ignore it, but irresistibly, he brushed his hand against it as he cut down the other side to his boot. The pants landed in a heap on the floor.

Dino looked down at him. "Are you going to buy me a new pair of pants?"

"No. You won't be needing them," he whispered, his eyes now filled with a definite tint of l.u.s.t.

"That's clear enough," Dino replied.

Tyler leaned down again, running his hands up over his muscular calves and then to his thighs. He stood up. He was wearing a black tee-shirt that definitely had to come off. He put the scissors aside.

With both hands he ripped the tee-shirt up the center. He stood back again, obviously enjoying himself. He licked his lips. "G.o.d, you're so beautiful," he hissed between his teeth. "I should make some sort of law against that. You could make someone lose their mind."

"And have you lost your mind, Tyler?" Dino asked him. "Don't speak," Tyler told him, reaching out to pinch his inviting brown nipples.

Dino's head went back. He sucked in some air as Tyler continued to tug on them without mercy.

Tyler moved one hand down to his c.o.c.k now. He lifted it completely out of the underwear and stood back to admire it.

With his nipples and c.o.c.k hard like that, Tyler could no longer contain his own desire. He opened his pants and withdrew his aching c.o.c.k.

Dino's hot gaze caressed it. "How long it's been since I've been able to look at it. It's beautiful," he whispered. "Tyler, I love you."

Tyler raised tear-filled eyes to him. "You left me. Look at me. I'm helpless. Even with you tied up like that, it's me who is the prisoner." He threw his arms around him and sobbed against his chest.

All he could do was rub his chin against the top of his head. "Tyler, Tyler," he said. "Listen to me. I left because Thor wanted to kill you. It was Thor that night who came to you and if I hadn't stopped him, you'd be dead. I knew you'd never be safe if I stayed with you. And how can we be together? I'm not...I'm a vampire."

"Then make me a vampire too," Tyler looked up at him, pleading. "I hate this life. I never wanted this. I'm miserable without you. Dino, I'm losing my mind."

"I..." he began but Tyler didn't give him the chance to answer. He pressed his mouth against his and kissed him deeply.

Then stepping back from him, he took his s.e.x in his hand and fondled it with such tenderness, Dino moaned deeply in his throat. "Tyler." Ripping the underwear, Tyler threw them aside. "I can't wait anymore."

On his knees, he took his s.e.x in his mouth, making sounds of pleasure as he tasted him.

Dino's head went back, his legs bracing himself as he thrust his hips forward.

He felt Tyler's hands move around to his b.u.t.tocks. His fingers kneaded the flesh there as he continued to pleasure him with his mouth. He released his s.e.x and stood up, quickly discarding his clothing as Dino watched him silently.

Walking over to the closet of treasures, he withdrew an electronic wand that changed shapes with a press of a switch. He showed it to Dino and smiled softly at him. "I plan to torture you."

"So it seems," he replied dryly.

Stopping by the panel, he pressed a switch which caused the room to be surrounded by mirrors. He pressed another which caused Dino's legs to rise upwards off the floor, the constraints adjusting themselves at a higher level on the side of the wall.

"You got to be kidding." Dino laughed.

Underneath him now, Tyler ran his lips over his b.u.t.tocks, reaching around to play with his c.o.c.k. Then roughly he began to prod him with the s.e.x toy. "I know I may not be able to give you what a vampire can, but this will. This will f.u.c.k you for hours in a variety of different ways."

Tyler m.a.s.t.u.r.b.a.t.ed as he watched Dino's face and body contort in the mirror on the ceiling. So s.e.xy. As he continued to impale him with the toy, his erection jutted upward, his tongue darted out across his lips, his eyes changed a variety of hues, from gold, to green, to amber, to blood red. At one point, his jaw opened, revealing those pointed incisors.

Leaving the toy inside him, he went to the panel. He lowered it some so that he could touch him more.

Coming around to the side of him, he looked down into his face. He kissed his cheek, his chin, his mouth, his neck. He touched his chest, his nipples, ran his hand over his stomach, his s.e.x. He forgot all about the s.e.x toy.

He wrapped his arms around his waist and laid his head on his chest.

"This is torture?" Dino whispered.

"d.a.m.n you," Tyler said, stepping away from him. He took the s.e.x toy out and turned it off, throwing it aside. "You didn't even c.u.m."

"It's not a plastic toy that's going to do it for me, Tyler." He smiled at him and then winked.

"You're impossible," Tyler said.

"I know, and that's why you love me so much," he replied simply as Tyler walked over and pressed the b.u.t.ton that would lower his body to the floor again.

"I don't love you. I hate you," Tyler told him, half seriously.

Dino laughed.

Tyler folded his arms across his naked chest and lowered his head.

He looked like a small boy suddenly. "Why don't you release me so that I can give you what you really want?"

Tyler looked up at him. "So you can escape?"

"I might not escape, at least not before I drink your blood and ravish your body."

Dino's gazed shifted to Tyler's s.e.x. It stiffened significantly.

Tyler knew where he was looking. "That's not fair."

"I never promised to be fair. Besides, I'm the one in chains."

"No," Tyler shook his head sadly, "I'm in chains. Don't you think I know you could break those any time you wanted to?"

Dino lifted an eyebrow, obviously surprised. .

"But I can't get rid of mine. They've been with me for ten years."

"Come here, Tyler," he said. "Come here and let me kiss you."

Tyler came closer. Dino pressed his lips against his and gave him a soft kiss. Then he said against his mouth, "I don't know how to keep you safe. I couldn't stand it if something was to happen to you."

"But it won't," Tyler said. "I'm surrounded by people. I have an army at my disposal...I..."

"Tyler," Dino sighed. "That won't stop Thor. You remember that night he almost killed you in your room."

"Yes, and you saved me," Tyler told him.

"But, Tyler..."

"Then make me what you are," Tyler pleaded, running his hands down his flanks.

"I..."

"I was one once. I was Joey, right?"

He nodded.

"You can bring Joey back. Bring him back, Dino. Maybe that's what was meant to be all along. Maybe we keep meeting in different lives because we are meant to be immortal. Have you ever considered that?"

Tyler kissed his chest now, running his tongue over each succulent nipple, than reaching down to fondle his s.e.x.

Dino moaned. "I want to f.u.c.k you." With one motion, his hands were free. The chains lay broken on the floor.

Before Tyler could react, he grabbed his hips and turned him around. "Your turn," he said, moving his teeth along the tender skin of his throat. Grabbing both his arms, he pushed them up above his head. "You won't be able to move them anymore," he whispered.

True enough, it was if his wrists were caught over his head.

Dino's hands moved down over his flesh now. "Oh, Tyler, Tyler," he moaned against him. "I need to touch you like this. I need to run my hands over your chest, play with your nipples, fondle your s.e.x. I want to feel you squirm like that in my arms, moan against my skin. Tell me you're mine."

"I'm yours, oh yes...yes..." Tyler moaned, his head going back against his shoulder as his hands roamed freely over his body. He was on fire, his nipples tingling with pleasure, his protruding s.e.x rigid with need.

When he felt his s.e.x moving inside him, he let out a series of continual moans, his chest heaving with pleasure as the vampire's hands continued to wring sensation from his over-stimulated flesh. When he felt the first stab of pain, it mingled with the pleasure, causing him to sigh deeply, run his tongue over his lips. The blood that ran down his chest and over his left nipple only served to increase his literal swooning.

Dino stepped out of the chains that held his ankles, bringing Tyler's body against the wall so that he could thrust deeper into him. Then he lifted them up until he had Tyler on the table above them. Pulling him up to his knees, he continued to thrust, causing Tyler's body to convulse with ecstasy.

Do it. Do it, my love. Bring us back together, the way it was meant to be. Two immortals, eternal souls... for the rest of time. Do it. You have the power.

Dino bit deeper into his flesh. He continued to thrust in and out of him until he felt his body go slack. He turned him over. There was a smile on his face. He leaned down and licked the blood from his neck. Then lifting his still engorged s.e.x, he drew his nail down the length of it. Blood rushed to the surface. Bringing his s.e.x to Tyler's lips, he let the blood drip into his mouth. A few seconds later, Tyler's tongue emerged and began to lick the head of his c.o.c.k.

Dino sucked in some breath, closing his eyes. "Yes," he urged. "Take it."

Tyler's mouth opened and eagerly, he took his s.e.x in his mouth, sucking deeply on his blood. After a few minutes, Dino felt himself weakening. He was about to pull away when he exploded into his mouth. A powerful o.r.g.a.s.m shot through his body which caused him to fall backwards, practically toppling off the table.

Anxiously, he checked to see that Tyler was breathing. He was. And after a few minutes, he noticed that his hair had taken on a brilliant sheen. His skin seemed softer, and more radiant.

Dino opened his mouth and there were the points of his teeth in the retracted position. He sat back. He was filled with a mixture of relief and regret.

He curled up beside him, wondering if he had done the right thing. It was clear that being apart was too painful. It was driving Tyler mad, and he hadn't even realised what it was doing to him until he saw him again. He couldn't stay with him under the constant threat that Thor might get to him. At least now as a vampire, he had a fighting chance. And maybe Tyler had been right. Maybe it had all been leading back to this, back to where it had started.

Curling up next to him, he wrapped his arms around him and slept.