Jean-Pierre laughed from the gut as he pulled his wife around to face him. "I need to be in you, now. I cannot wait another moment. Besides, I need to spend as much time as I can with you before the baby comes. I will have to learn to share you then."
"Then by all means, my love, take me to bed and fuck me until you can’t fuck anymore."
"Beware, young one. I have the stamina of a vampire."
She touched the tip of his nose and smiled. "As do I, my love, as do I."
Epilogue
"Elise?"
Jean-Pierre laughed as he heard his granddaughter entering the manor. She had a bad habit of knocking and assuming that she needed to announce her presence. "You grandmother is downstairs painting. She’ll sense your presence soon enough. Come, Adeline, tell me how life at the university is treating you."
He watched as Adeline entered his study. Her long jet black hair was twisted into a bun and she wore her signature faded jeans and sweatshirt. She smiled when she saw him and her blue eyes twinkled. "Ah, you are beautiful, young one."
She rolled her eyes. "Stop it, Jean-Pierre. I hate it when you two walk around and call yourselves grandma and grandpa. You don’t look a day over thirty and Elise looks even younger than that. Only mom looks her age."
Jean-Pierre grew quiet at the mention of his daughter, Marie. "She decided that she did not want to be immortal. It is her life to do with as she pleases."
"Yeah, umm … try to sound like you mean it. I know if you had your way you’d have turned her, but mom is as stubborn as you."
"Thanks, I think," Jean-Pierre said. "You do know that now that you are a young woman, you can choose our way and live forever."
She smiled at him and it warmed his heart. "I know. Mom tells me all the time to do what I want, but I’d like a little bit more time to decide. Is that okay?"
"Oui," Jean-Pierre said, proud of how strong his granddaughter seemed to be.
"Gee, now that you bring French into the mix, I’ve got a favor to ask of you."
"Adeline, you have but to ask and it is yours."
"Can I borrow your guys’ house in France, just for a few months? I’ve decided to spend my last semester abroad and I just thought…."
Jean-Pierre put his hand up and nodded. "What we have is yours, young one. Of course you can." He smiled, as he thought about how destiny was unfolding again before his eyes. Elise had dreamed that Adeline would go to France and that she too would find her mate--and in the process find immortality. If his granddaughter had the opportunity to have even an ounce of the happiness he’d had with Elise then he would do anything to help her.
THE END
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