Later that night, Chloe lay curled on her bed, staring at the shadows shifting across her ceiling but Melinda’s words refused to leave her mind.

“You didn’t say no.”

“She feels everything you feel.”

“She has no reason to defy your will.”

Chloe squeezed her pillow, teeth sinking into her lip. Shame still burned in her chest, but beneath it, something else lingered, possibility.

If what Melinda said was true… then she wasn’t as powerless as she thought.

Her pulse ...