An arm slid around her waist, the muscled flesh the same temperature as her own. "Ready to go?"
Elise smiled and turned into Blake's embrace. He was faintly flushed from a recent breakfast of plasma, but the new silky luminescence to his skin looked very different than when he'd been human.
"I'm ready now."
Elise was ready for a lot of things, the first of which was living with the man she loved. And maybe next was learning how to drive. Or how to play chess.
Now that she had Blake, the possibilities were suddenly endless-and wonderful.