[ He lifts a hand to stroke back her hair — the fact that she even has a choice to begin with is more than most vampires he knows, if not all of them. He certainly didn't have much of a say in whether he would turn or not and in a way, that makes this important. She can choose and so he must let her, even if he so desperately wants to nudge her rather firmly in one direction. ]
It's not all that bad, you know... best thing that ever happened to me.