The Vampire Affair. Livia Reasoner

you think you ought to call me Jessie?”

      He smiled. “All right. And I’m Michael.”

      She didn’t tell him that in her mind she had already begun to think of him that way.

      Nor did she mention how her heart started pounding harder in her chest the instant his skin made contact with hers, even though just their hands touched, not their lips or bodies or—

      Stop that, she told herself. She had to remember this relationship was all business.

      Vampire-killing business.