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Chapter 1

Meredith desperately struggled against thetable She closed her eyes, straining her h her, but the restraints wouldn’t budge

“Please,” she begged, hot tears running down her cheeks

Jack ignored her pleas, focusing intently on her neck as he slowly slid a hypodermic needle beneath her skin

“Aler Meredith’s neck was too numb to feel the needle, but the injection burned as it spread through her veins She gasped and tried once more to rip her arm away from her captor

Jack’s eyes were on hers as she writhed The saht of him as a mentor, as one of the best hunters she’d ever met Before she knew Jack was a vampire Before he had murdered Stefan

Before she’d known he was changing her

“I don’t want to be a va Her eyes blurred with tears Meredith thought of Cristian, the vaenerations of her family whose life mission had been to destroy the supernatural race She couldn’t becoh

A brief s “It’s done ”

Meredith ached everywhere She began to shake her head slowly, back and forth, as her breath caed, anxious spurts “I’ll kill myself,” she said desperately

Jack grinned more widely “Go ahead and try,” he said “I’ve perfected the treatments We’re unkillable ”

With a fresh flare of panic, Meredith again slaainst the restraints The heavy, nu, and metal bit sharply into her wrists In a burst of effort, she snapped thetable and, still shaky on her feet, hit the floor hard

On her hands and knees, she scrabbled for the door, expecting Jack to hoist her back onto the table at any moment But Jack didn’t led She could hear herself breathing, a harsh, desperate panting, as she pulled herself across the floor She just needed to get out

Sheonto the knob

“You’ll be back,” Jack said, his voice an eerie calm