THE DAY I SLAYED MY VAMPIRE LOVER
It was an admission of apostasy.
Rusty leaned down, his forehead pressing against hers. He kissed her forehead, then her eyelids, then the curve of her lips, pouring the weight of his two-hundred-year loneliness and his terrified, newfound hope into the contact. They made love one final time that night”a slow, sacred ritual of surrender. Outside, the rain continued its relentless, silver judgment, as if trying to scrub the very memory of the city from the face of the earth.