Ethan dragged Vanessa into the underground lab. It was the same room where he had once tortured me. Without a word of explanation, he attached the neural synchronizer's high-output electrode pads to Vanessa. "You liked making other people suffer for you, didn't you?" His eyes were dead, and his voice was cold. "Now you can feel the suffocation Owen endured before he died, along with the agony Claire suffered as her organs failed over the past three years." The instant the device came on, Vanessa let out a bloodcurdling scream. Ethan set the device to the highest level of pain a human body could survive. For three days and three nights, Vanessa's screams and pleas echoed through the lab. She endured the suffocating cold that had seized Owen's infected lungs when he was drenched in

