Terri skipped along beside the vampire, smiling brightly as she looked around at the crisp morning sky excitedly, ‘where are we going Abel?’ she asked impatiently.
Chuckling, Abel shook his head, ‘patience my love, it is a surprise, we will be there in just a few moments’ he replied fondly.
‘I don’t like surprises’ the human huffed, her face clouding slightly.
‘I don’t believe you little one, you love surprises’ the vampire murmured.
Terri’s pout broke into another wide smile, ‘it’s true, I adore surprises, my dad used to have to leave my birthday presents at our neighbours as I’d get so over excited, I’d throw up knowing that they were in the house, and I couldn’t see them’ she confided with an embarrassed giggle.
Abel looked down at the young woman beside him, his heart fluttering a
