I wasn't even surprised by the change in me since I knew that the magnitude of the improvement depended on the type of death. Walking out of the bathroom I wore the dark suit we found. It wasn't perfect but it would do for the rest of the night. I went to Chloe who was sitting on a sofa waiting with a faraway look in her eyes. I cough and she noticed I was ready. As she turned to face me, I immediately thought about our passionate make-out session. If Thorn didn't stop us I didn't dare imagine how far we would go.

As I was in a daze looking at her, she got self-conscious and asked :

"What?"

"I was just wondering what was that earlier?"

A blush crept onto her originally pale chick, she avoid starring at me directly and answered:

"This...sorry, I lost control, the mark was originally a way to indicate the claim of a person to other vampires, it was supposed to be me taking a little bit of your blood while leaving a bit of my vampire signature on you. But as soon as I tasted your blood.....it was like ambrosia, I wanted more and more of it I couldn't stop. Vampire's fangs contain a powerful agent capable of bringing pleasure to their victims making them tame during the blood-drinking process and the more powerful the vampire is the more potent is this agent, that's why you lost control."

'So it was like that but wait...' I realized something.

"I understand your bloodlust and my own desire now but where did yours come from?" I asked her smiling.

She once again avoided my gaze and acted like I didn't speak.

"We should get back to the party, Stella is alone there." before she rapidly left the room.

I looked at her back and smiled cockily to myself.

'You wouldn't admit it but you like me.' Shaking those thoughts away I catch up to her and we went back to the reception room.

We found Stella in a corner of the room next to a couple that was having a hard time not doing it right here and now. The male had the female pressed against a wall, his tongue deep in her throat and his holding her butt while her legs were wrapped around his waist.

Stella was just sitting next to them with an intoxicated expression on her face. Her face was flushed and radiating vitality.

Chloe cough softly to make her aware of our presence. She looked at us nonchalantly before getting up and coming toward us leaving the couple. As she came close her eyes glowing a devilish purple, my heart started to speed up and Chloe was blushing, my thoughts were slowing down, and my pen*s started to harden I looked at both Chloe and Stella with hungry eyes.

Before things could spiral out of control Chloe said:

" Stella, stop it, you are affecting us!!"

Stella seemed to come back to herself and said embarrassedly

"Sorry I was lost in the high and didn't notice it was still on."

"What was that?" I asked startled as soon as I regained my mind.

"Ah, this is my demon power is LUST, I can make anybody feel lust and lose their mind and since I can devour lust as well to become more powerful it's convenient."

"You mean your half demon genes were from a succubus?!" I asked stunned.

'WHY were those girls so dangerous?' I lamented inwardly, both making me lose control twice in one hour.

But I've got to admit that tonight I saw more action than the last 17 years of my life.

Once the couple was not in her vicinity anymore they regained their spirits looking at each other confused.

We went back to our table and sat down. Chloe's father had already been back in the room before us, he was entertaining the guess and receiving gifts.

Now that she was back to herself Stella seemed to notice something about us, she frowned before smiling and saying:

"Both of you have been naughty" in a sing-song voice.

Chloe looked uncomfortable. She then sighed and told her what happened with her father.

"You are truly a monster even coming back from this?" Stella looked at me amazed after hearing the story about my spectacular revival.

As she was observing me more and more she said:

"You feel much more powerful than you were before your death even your looks became much more beautiful." she noticed

At her remark, Chloe too observed me carefully.

"I always knew there was something about you because it was the same last time after Luke killed you and I saw you again, you became more powerful."

I could see they were both puzzled by my weird power.

I just laughed awkwardly.

The atmosphere soon returned to normal, we spent the rest of the night drinking, dancing, and having fun ignoring the death glare lunch from time to time by Luke and the creepy one of his father.

We left the hotel just before dawn as the party come to an end. Stella reluctantly left with Luke and Atticus while Chloe's driver brought us to my apartment.

She accompanied me to my doorsteps and said:

"Thank you again for tonight, I am sorry about my father killing you," she said smiling.

Looking at her smiling in the light of dawn was truly beautiful.

"No worries I knew I would die at least once during the course of the evening" I responded jokingly.

We both shared a laugh, we became much more closely after tonight's adventure. I looked at her and an impulse ran through my head, I decided to run with it, life was too short, literally.

I closed on her surprised face and gave her a deep kiss while holding her close. She was taken by surprise and didn't respond immediately, instead of the slap I thought I would receive she hugged me even tighter and reciprocated my kiss.

The time we spent on my step door is lost on me. It was only after a while that we stopped and she left while smiling enchantingly.

I looked at her back as she disappeared in the elevator of my building.

I stayed still for a while before entering my apartment and going to my room. I directly crashed on the bed and before I fell into a deep sleep I sent back to her the 10.000.000$ i had accepted for the mission with this message:

"I will still help you with Luke and your father, it's just that I have no need for the money now. The party was fun, call me."