Page 130 of Road Trip with a Vampire

“Zelda.”

I stopped talking midsentence, turning to face him. He walked towards me, the look in his eyes one of such reverence I didn’t trust myself to speak.

When he reached me, he lifted a hand and gently, gently pushed a lock of hair that had fallen into my eyes away from my face.

“You got this for me?” His voice was husky, raw. Disbelief laced his words.

I nodded, swallowing around the lump in my throat. My heart was so full as he looked at me, close to bursting. “For your new business venture. Do you like it?”

He huffed an incredulous laugh. “Do I like it?” he repeated as though he couldn’t believe the question. “Zelda.”

Wordlessly he placed his hands on my shoulders, gently guiding me backwards through the empty room until my back was flush against the wall. He peered down at me with such utter devotion, all cogent thought fled.

“Do I like it?” he murmured again under his breath. My body was pressed between the hard wall behind me and the plane of his chest, but his eyes were on my lips. Hungry. “I’ve never had a better gift.”

By now Peter and I had kissed in just about every imaginable way. And in some ways I’dneverimagined, which was honestly shocking to me given how many centuries I’d been imagining things. This kiss, though, would be seared into my mind forever. The press of his lips to mine was gentle and needy all at once, sealing us together in a way words never could. His hands on my hips were his unspoken gratitude, his fingertips pressing into my flesh his vow to never leave.

By the time we broke apart, I was gasping, both from the kiss and from the enormity of everything that had just passed between us.

“What do you think of Elliott and Turret as a name for this new enterprise?” Peter asked, suddenly shy.

My heart soared at his words. At the image it painted of the two of us, working together into the future on projects big and small. I twined my arms around his neck, grinning so broadly I didn’t think I’d ever be able to stop.

“I think,” I said, pressing a kiss to the corner of his mouth. “I think it sounds fantastic.”