Amelia and Lucius, A New Love

This tale is set in the world created for my Annan series. Here you will get a taste of the vampires in that world. Lucius is just one vampire, a simple man really, who falls in love with a human who deserves more then what life had given her. He tells her of how he came to be a vampire and gives her the choice of a life of love with him or the life she is living with a man whose love was never true.

Excerpt –

“What was your childhood like?”
Lucius stopped and blinked at her in the moonlight. He didn’t want to lie, he couldn’t, the time he spent watching her, waiting for the right time to approach her, hearing her every thought, were all lies enough in his own mind. He knew what he had to do.
It seems the time has chosen itself, Lucius thought with a laugh.
“Let’s head back.”
“Oh, what I can pour my heart out, but I get nothing?” Amelia’s tone was teasing but she was slightly put off he didn’t want to share.
“I’ll tell you all you want to know about me, and more, but we should head back. We have walked quite a distance.”
“Oh.” Amelia giggled. She felt silly and wished she could blame it on the wine like the night before, but the three glasses she drank did nothing more than warm her while she walked and told Lucius about her life growing up.
“Come on.” Lucius turned them back toward the hotel. “Before I begin,” he stopped and turned to Amelia, taking her face in his hands. “If I can never do this again,” Lucius pressed his lips to hers, kissing her passionately. He kissed her as though it was the last kiss they would share, since it very well could be. “One last kiss before I begin. Just in case you run screaming away from me forever.”
Lucius’ actions made dueling emotions erupt inside Amelia. What he was saying had her worried. Was he married too? A serial killer? However, his kiss pulled something from deep inside her. It screamed, “Stay, stay! Hear what he has to say!” So she stayed.
Lucius smiled down at her, their nearness and the moonlight allowed Amelia to see something in his eyes she had never seen in any man, not even her own husband, and when he spoke she could see the truth plain on his face. “I am deeply in love with you Amelia.”