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and he’d had eyes for no other woman. Not even Yasmine had had that effect on him.
    “I can’t explain it, Simon, but she’s the one.” Tristan laid his head back wearily on the back of the sofa as Simon continued to pace back and forth. “I, of all people, never believed in love at first sight but it happened to me because I fell madly in love with her the moment I saw her. Can you believe it? After all these years, my jaded soul has finally found someone who makes me feel alive.”
    “For goodness’ sake, man,” Simon sneered. “You didn’t just get hit by Cupid’s arrow, he clobbered you over the head.”
    Tristan turned his head and looked out the window at the Las Vegas skyline. But he didn’t see any of it. Instead he saw Chloe’s beautiful face.
    “Aye, clobbered me he did. Have you ever met anyone who you couldn’t wait to see at the end of a hard day? Someone who makes you laugh no matter how angry you are? Someone who finally makes you feel complete?”
    Simon’s mind ran over the countless number of women he’d been with and even shared with Tristan but he had to admit that not one of them stood out in his mind.
    “I hadn’t either until I met her. And by all that is holy, I wasn’t going to let her get away. Even if that meant I had to use my powers to do it.”
    “So what are you going to do?” Simon asked. “You know you can’t charm her again. It’s not right.”
    “No, no, I promised myself that I would never do that again. I want her to want me as much as I want her. I’m going to have to simply work really hard to win her back.” Tristan sighed.
    Simon’s face was unreadable as he stood looking down at him.
    “Well, I wish you luck, brother, because winning her back may be harder than you think, especially when she was never really yours in the first place.”

Chapter Three
    Two months later
     
    “Ew. Now that’s just wrong. I don’t know how you can eat your steak like that. I have half a mind to call People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.”
    Chloe looked up into Shirley’s disgusted face and gave her a lame smile. She didn’t know how she could eat her steak so raw it could almost jump up from her plate and run from the room either. But that was the only way she liked her food nowadays.
    But that wasn’t the only thing that had changed about her life ever since she’d returned from Las Vegas. She’d essentially become a freak of nature. Her eyes had become so sensitive to daylight that not even the darkest sunglasses could prevent her from being blinded by the sun’s rays. And her poor skin, dark as it was, practically burned from the slightest exposure to daylight. She was also strong as an ox. Her personal trainer Derek used to tease her about being a cream puff because she whined through all of her sets and was unable to do one complete set of chin-ups at the gym.
    Now she was his star client. She breezed through her entire workout. And she could complete fifty one-arm chin-ups without breaking into a sweat. Despite these drastic changes in her life, she’d tried to carry on as normal as possible these past two months. She still ran both of her real estate offices with efficiency, although she practically ran them from home now. She’d delegated the daytime showings to her assistant Dina. And if she needed to see a client or participate in a closing, she simply scheduled them at sunset or in the early evenings.
    “Are you sure I’m safe being here?” Shirley asked. She looked toward the windows, which were now covered with blackout curtains, and shivered.
    “You’re safe around me, silly. I don’t have any fangs yet.”
    Chloe chuckled when Shirley looked at her sharply.
    “That is not funn—” Shirley stopped in mid-sentence. Her brows knitted together in concern. “Girl, what’s wrong with you? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.” Shirley looked over her shoulder warily. “Please don’t tell me you can see dead people too?”
    Chloe