"It feels so good," Colleen said in a contented faraway voice. "I think I could fall in love with you, Ben Wilhelm." Love! A word Ben hadn't heard uttered in this context in a hundred long, lonely years. He had feared he'd never experience love again. Then, less than a day earlier, he had seen Colleen across the club and something inside him just clicked. He felt inexplicably drawn to the intriguing young woman, like some kind of chemical reaction in his brain that he couldn't explain. He wanted to get to know the alluring virgin, to fall in love again. Then they went through so much together in such a short amount of time. The sensitive nerve endings inside Ben's fangs detected Colleen's blood vessels constricting, trying to keep her blood pressure from dropping in response to th