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insides. Just like your mother.”
    Stefan’s body tensed as if he’d been the one wearing the shock collar.
    “Say you’re mine. Just say it,” she hissed.
    “Why, so you can get the marking over with?”
    “Trust me.”
    “Don’t do it, Gypsy,” the voice warned.
    “I’m yours,” Stefan declared in a defiant tone.
    Just as the first phase of the mating bond clicked into place, another fifty-thousand volts shot through her. This time, it didn’t begin to ebb as soon as it hit. The jolt before had been a warning—this was a punishment.
    Her beast could’ve combatted the pain easily, but the same collar that jolted her also kept her from turning. Her teeth clamped together; her whole body spasmed. A low guttural sound was torn from her as the volts kept coming.
    Her toes curled, her fingers were knotted into claws and she began to convulse into unnatural poses.
    “Enough!” Stefan demanded.
    “You’ll wish she had that collar on when we let her change to mark you.”
    “And you’ll wish for an easy death,” he returned.
    The voltage stopped, but her flesh continued to contort and she could smell the scent of her own skin burning where the collar made contact. The wounds healed almost immediately.
    The look on Stefan’s face was one of pure rage.
    It was worth it. Now we can talk without them hearing us or even knowing we’re talking. Beth spoke across their new mind link.
    What did Zoranna say to you?
    That you’d need me while you ascended.
    “Are you okay?” he said aloud.
    “Yeah.” She nodded and slid from his lap, looking around the enclosure. Beth noticed cameras everywhere. “Looks like Big Brother is always watching, huh?”
    “Seems to be the case.”
    “What’s to stop you from disabling them? They don’t look rigged.”
    “I thought that would be kind of obvious. They’ll shock you.”
    Beth cast a glance over her shoulder. “So what if they do? I’m just a mark. An asset , I believe is how you thought of me? Doesn’t matter. I’ll heal.”
    “Beth—”
    “No.” She held up her hand to silence him. So much had come through the link when they’d joined. She’d wondered how he thought of her and now she knew. It was as if that bit of knowledge had been drawn to her like a magnet. She wanted it and it erupted to the forefront. Part of her wished she didn’t know, that she could stuff it back down inside of him so deep she never had to see it again.
    But hiding it didn’t change the truth of the matter.
    She dealt in facts, not “would have” or “could have.”
    It was what she deserved for poking through another’s private thoughts. He didn’t allow her inside because he had some unexplainable drive to join with her, it was simply because she’d asked him to trust her.
    Beth , if you’re going to look , you should see everything , he said through their link.
    She didn’t want to, and she scrambled for a way to close their connection, but it was too late. Memories kept slamming into her like a wrecking ball, familiar, but foreign—just like their cabin had been. They were his memories of her, his perceptions.
    Burning in the fire of your hair ...
    Beth saw herself as she’d been the night of the raid, splayed out before him. That wasn’t a view she’d ever wanted, but seeing herself through his eyes was something altogether different. She was... beautiful.
    To him.
    His want of her had been real enough—his desire.
    Sensation shot through her, stabs of lust twisting through her body, and she experienced what he had. Her tight sheath around him, her sounds of pleasure, the weight of her breasts in his hands—it was all so decadent and just a little bit debauched.
    She loved it.
    I think about that all the time , Beth.
    Her body responded, nipples tight and beaded beneath her T-shirt, heart rate skyrocketing as she thought about doing those things with him again.
    Even with the collar on, she thought about sinking her teeth into his shoulder, marking him. She