It was wrong, he knew, to be beginning to picture the young one in such a way. Riley had experienced Tao's disciplining hand, and he knew that the vampire wouldn't show any mercy to his partner from the hunt. He bared his teeth just inches from the other man's neck. "Yes." He groaned as the image became more and more clear in his mind. "Burn the skin, break his will, it wouldn't be so easy, but it would- it would happen."