They can stop anytime.

Yeah this is getting old fast. "Could you get rid of the blood now? I'm... I can work more on comfort near the stuff later."

"Sure." She drops it into the ground and buries it—doesn't drink it, she's done human blood before and she knows the difference and much prefers her brain on animal blood.

And now he can kiss her without growling except in a good way!

Very good, that. Also extremely hot, that he can make these noises now.

Gosh being a mated vampire is distracting. Wonderfully distracting. To both of them.

Is there anything else he'd like to do now that he's a vankire?

Fly around with the wing pack! And chat with friends and family on the crystals a bit.

But beyond that, not really. Nothing that doesn't require being human-safe.

How about Empire Imports?

"Have you checked what our and their legal status even is now? I'm not particularly revenge leaning but I'm worrying they'll be shady in other ways now..."

"I have not, and I don't really have the faintest clue. I'm not sure they were shady, though? Since apparently the law that ducked us over was a very obscure one that had changed very recently..."

"Well, it was more the crown's meddling... I'm sure they just wanted their tax money. So you're right."

"I should probably call them and figure it out."

"I wouldn't mind if you did."

So she does.

Empire imports is happy to continue taking her money for deliveries of various parts and stuff, but doesn't want to touch her selling stuff to them again with a ten foot pole. They kept their legal status by the skin of their teeth and are under a bunch of watchdogs now.

Neither Terel nor Sadde are in any ongoing legal trouble. Except Sadde's income tax, which she should visit the tax guys she hired to finalize in exacting detail.

...okay, she thanks them and will think about deliveries of various parts. Meantime, uh, tax guys?

Have done exemplary work, require more information on some things, and signatures, and, ahem, payment.

Right she's still very rich, what do they need?

A personal visit or meeting a courier someplace, with a medium-ish amount of money.

Right. And what are the complications, exactly?

This one furniture store owner says he paid her some money, is this true?

Yep.

So they need some details on that, and some paperwork regarding this other thing, and she needs to send furniture guy a legal notice that she acknowledges he reported the work and it is now taxable.

Sure, she can do all that.