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I wait for her to catch her breath. Then I lie on top of her, still half in her, and she strokes my hair.
“I wasn’t too bad?” she asks. “For a first timer?”
“Too bad?” I take her face in my hands and meet her eyes. “You were amazing, my beautiful queen. I want to take you like that every day for the rest of our lives.”
She blinks at me. “Really?”
“Really,” I say, settling beside her and taking her in my arms. “I know we just met. And I know this is too soon…” I trail off as I try to find a way to put the glow in my chest into words. “Janet, until I met you, I thought soulmates were poppycock.”
“Poppycock?” Janet’s gaze drops down between my legs, and I feel myself growing hard again.
“Balderdash,” I say.
“What?” Janet stares at me blankly.
“Poppycock means balderdash.” I struggle to think of a more modern saying. “Nonsense.”
“Oh…” she whispers.
“I thought authors made soulmates up, same as how they made up vampires needing to be invited in and not having a soul. At least, I assume we have a soul.” I pull her closer. “We’re definitely not cursed, just a different species than humans. But that’s not what I was trying to say.”
“It’s not?”
“No.” I shake my head. “I was trying to say that somehow, between the moment when you appeared on my front porch and this moment right here, I’ve fallen in love with you.”
“Love?” she whispers, eyes wide.
I meet her eyes again and press my hand to her breastbone just over her heart. “You feel it too, don’t you?” I ask. “That we were meant for one another.”
“Soulmates…” she whispers.
I nuzzle her neck, resisting the urge to bite. “Exactly.”
“I never thought I’d fall in love,” she says quietly. “I didn’t think there was a man out there for me.”
I smile, flashing a fang. “No, not a man. A vampire.”
She nods, eyes unfocused. I almost think she’s fallen asleep, despite her somewhat uneven breathing and elevated heart rate, when she whispers, “I love you, too.”
“You don’t have to say it back if you’re not ready. I’m willing to wait. As long as it takes. I’m immortal…” And that longing to walk into the sun and end my endless existence is completely gone. There’s only one desire left—to stay by Janet’s side for all eternity.
“I didn’t know it could happen so fast,” she says. Then, as if reading my mind, she adds, “But I can’t imagine ever leaving your side.”
I cover her lips with mine and pull her in for a luxurious kiss. I don’t intend to take things further, but I’m already hard. I grab Janet’s hips, but she pulls back.
“Archie… you’ll live so much longer than me… I must be like a blip in your long life.”
I sit up, ignoring our nakedness and the scent of our love-making. “I love you, Janet, and I want to be with you forever.”
“Forever?” she asks, nibbling on her lip. “Do you mean I could… become a vampire?”
I nod.
“I don’t know,” she says. “I need my job to pay the bills, and I can’t do it if I need to avoid the sun, and…”
“I’ve amassed some wealth in my long life. You wouldn’t need to work, not unless you wanted to.”
She nods. “What about Page? And my family? I see my aunt and cousins at Christmas, and I keep in touch with a few friends from library school. If I just disappeared…”
