"Then you are sleeping by my side every night from now on." Tom said. Not that he did much good when she was gushing blood from a vampire neck wound... but he helped. A little. (He may have saved her life, actually, but he was freaking out so much he hated himself for being useless.)
"I think she'll understand. Besides, this is... this is what people do, isn't it? The first step toward happily ever after?"