Black Sunshine: A Dark Vampire Romance

Everyone nods, and Yvonne is tearing up, dabbing her eyes with a napkin. I’m not used to everyone in this house being so sentimental.

Solon flashes her a charming smile, then looks at the rest of us. “As a very old proverb says, we are all visitors to this time, to this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love…” he looks at me at that, “and then we return home.” He pauses, raising his glass higher. “May we all not return home for a long, long time.”

I look around the table at my new family, my found family, joy leaping up inside of my chest. It doesn’t negate the family I already have, my parents at home, just like my vampire side doesn’t negate the witch side and vice versa. I am an Ouroboros, one side feeding the other, and I have other beings in my life who care for me and look out for me, too.

And then there’s the one at the head of the table, raising his glass of wine.

Staring at me with all the devotion and intensity in the world.

Because he knows that the world belongs to us now.

And some day, together

…we’re going to change it.

THE END