We kissed with dropped teeth, bleeding each other and ignoring the stings. I wrapped my arms and then my legs around him. He supported me with a gasp and then lowered us to the floor.

"Oh, Alexis, I missed you. I missed you so much!"

He pulled back to look at me. "My love, my beautiful, beautiful love."

He kissed me and stroked my tongue with his until I thought I'd faint. Alexis, who had not touched another human for four hundred years until me, was now running ...