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off her.
    Mason has a surprise for Rose at the dance that he’s personally arranged. He gets Jesse and Ralf to admit—once and for all—that they were lying about Rose being a blood whore. Well, duh . Rose already knew that, but at least now everyone else will too. But that’s not all! How did Mia get the boys to lie about what happened? She slept with them— both of them.
    Jesse . . . and Ralf? Um, eww !
    The secret is out and Mia is mad as hell. She’s ready to blame everyone for her mistakes and share her pain—which all stemmed from her treatment at the hands of Lissa’s brother. Mia confronts Lissa and tells her point-blank that her craziness is going to get her locked up. Rose, automatically defending her best friend even when they’re not speaking, responds by punching Mia in the face and breaking her nose.
    Rose has never been all that great at impulse control.
    Devastated by Mia’s taunts and that everyone heard them, Lissa flees the dance, and Rose yells for Christian to go after her. She’d do it herself, but she’s being escorted by guardians back to her dorm room so she doesn’t get in any more trouble.
    Once in her room, a worried Rose reaches out to Lissa through their bond. In the chapel attic, Christian is soothing Lissa and her mood is improving . . . but suddenly guardians bust in. They knock Christian out and kidnap Lissa!

THE NECKLACE
     
    Rose knows she needs to find help immediately, but her thoughts suddenly become fuzzy. Something tells her to go to Dimitri, so she heads to his room. It’s very hard for her to focus, especially when he answers his door bare-chested and fresh from the shower.
    Rose’s desire for Dimitri skyrockets and she can’t seem to control it. Dimitri grabs her wrists to stop her from crossing a line between them, but the second his hands land on her skin, he’s also seized by whatever force is affecting Rose. Now he wants her too. Badly.
    “Do you think I’m pretty?”
    He regarded me with utter seriousness, like he always did. “I think you’re beautiful.”
    “Beautiful?”
    “You are so beautiful, it hurts me sometimes.”
    —page 283
     
     
    Things get hot and heavy between them—fast! Before too long, Rose is naked and Dimitri isn’t far from it. She’s overwhelmed with desire for him and thinks she’ll lose her virginity to him—which is totally okay with her. But when Dimitri removes her necklace, the voice urging her to be with him is gone. The attraction is still there—no doubt about it—but the need is less intense. They realize the necklace is charmed with a compulsion spell—in this case, lust . When Dimitri throws it out the window, clarity returns, and with it, Rose remembers that Lissa is in terrible danger!
    They race to tell Kirova what Rose saw through the bond, but the headmistress doesn’t believe her. At least, not until an injured Christian staggers in.
    The group moves immediately into action to rescue Lissa. Dimitri insists Rose come along because through the bond, Rose can tell the direction that Lissa and her captors are headed.
    She’s able to see who took her best friend—it’s Victor Dashkov! Kind and helpful, practically a member of Lissa’s family, Victor Dashkov!
    He’s the one who gave Rose the charmed necklace—he was trying to stop her from intervening in this kidnapping. Through the bond, Rose sees and hears what a shocked and frightened Lissa is now experiencing—that Victor knows about Lissa’s ability to heal and wants her to do the same with his disease.
    Victor has suspected this for a while—ever since the car accident that killed her parents. Rose watches on and is as stunned as Lissa is when he reveals something the girls weren’t fully aware of until this very moment. In the accident that killed Lissa’s parents and brother . . . Rose also died. But there was a difference—Lissa brought Rose back to life with “spirit.” It’s what forged the psychic bond between them. Because of this,