Carrick shrugged out of the dressing gown as Karena pushed it from his shoulders, then wrapped his arms around the younger vampire to pull her close.
"And I you," he replied. "I always knew I'd see you again. The gods wouldn't be so cruel as to keep you from me for eternity..." His lips left her mouth only long enough to nuzzle at her throat and inhale the scent of her hair before returning for another kiss, this one deeper and hungrier.
He let the dressing gown fall to the floor by the side of the bed, then reached to unfasten her robe to bare her body to his eager gaze. The tattoos that he had grumbled about when she first arrived stood in colourful contrast to her milk-white skin, and he bent his head to kiss each of them almost tenderly. "I'll have to learn your body all over again, won't I?" he asked.