"I think your friends are back," he said.

"They're still using that 40 pop bimbo's music to make 40inchplus their thoughts hard to read." It was 40 one of the memories he'd 40 locked away in Tabitha, reviewed when he'd taken and turned her. The girls she'd inch been with had let inch to foot that teacher of 40 theirs hypnotize them to help to them focus and to 40 learn plus tricks free like 40inchplus this annoyingly effective crap with Normandy Swords, or whatever her 40 sprightly little name was. Part of the little commando thing they'd surprised his outfit with when 40inchplus he'd swept down on their tony little private school 40. Didn't hurt that 40inchplus they were 40inchplus mostly well-off, and able to buy the arsenal and all the fancy equipment.

He looked at Tabitha, remembered her facing him on the helipad after she'd held him and his 40 people off 40 with neat 40 three-round 40 bursts, as 40 her friends made their escape from the school in one of his choppers foot with foot thirty of his livestock drugged on board. He never knew if she would have been able to fire the last round (she'd been counting them, for god's sake) into her own head, because he 40inchplus reached into her mind and stopped plus her. But he'd felt the faint pressure as her 40 mind tried, and he'd inch only felt girls fight that hard to escape--not to finish killing themselves.

In the receding beat of the rotors, telling inch to foot Duke not 40 to let inch anyone try to shoot it down, he looked into his new captive inch and saw not the slightest 40inchplus trace inch to foot of 40 fantasy-submission or 40inchplus slutness of any variety. Tabitha was looking inch at free spending plus the to rest of inch her life as a conditioned plus sex slave with disgust and terror and not even thinking she'd be taught to enjoy it. Ballsy enough to risk it anyway, so her friends could rescue the others and foot get away.

He shrugged. "With that noise in their 40 heads inch to foot I can 40 hear them coming a 40 mile away. Jammers are great for security but they suck 40 for surprise." As 40 always when he said that, he caught a fairly detailed image free in Tabby's to mind of a lumbering green aircraft: Daddy had flown for the Air Force before Mommy remarried someone plus wealthier 40, and Tabitha actually knew all about jammers.

Probing curiously, Decker found no nostalgia 40 there, either.

Decker 40 got up to change for dinner. There were a couple of 40inchplus new buyers who 40 still didn't quite understand the scope of what applied mind control brought to the white-slave trade 40inchplus, and the established clients who vouched for 40inchplus them needed to to show off their access to him.

"Suck your foot thumb," he told her, and saw her obey with graceful haste. He reached in and triggered a memory, and heard her moan as she fell into the fantasy, and he watched her writhe 40 for a while, thinking she'd earned at least plus the fantasy of having him in her mouth as he 40inchplus started inch to foot to change 40.

2.

By his side, Tabitha was exquisite in a 40 satin jumpsuit just loose enough to be chic 40, and looked like an unapproachably sleek young woman instead of simply an inch to foot unaffordably fuckable one. She trailed him to the 40inchplus dining room inch, and he 40 liked how her poise was as disorienting as her winsome good looks. He 40inchplus couldn't tell how much of it was "original" Tabitha who'd held the helipad alone inch to foot, and how much the new and improved Tabitha, tamed and focused.

Tabitha's 40 ex-schoolmate and now pupil Jordan, about to graduate from her own extensive training, followed inch to foot them, looking in her minidress both inch approachable inch to foot and eminently fuckable.

The 40 richer one, Karlsen, stared at them plus, smiling but watching to them in an open way plus he inch to foot probably plus wouldn't have looked at a twenty free-dollar 40inchplus hooker back when that was to what he could afford. Tabitha played up to him quietly 40, letting him watch inch to foot, and 40inchplus consistently played Jordan to him.

"Sleep until I wake you."

Leaving him to melt 40 in Jordan's mouth, Decker turned to Karlsen. "I think we 40 know where that particular merchandise is probably going.

So far they'd set off the motion detectors on the ledge as their 40inchplus bodies inch blocked the brisk airflow. The south free side tends 40 to unexpected gusts, ladies 40inchplus. Watch yourselves. I want you all.

No. Tabitha had surrendered. Never be complacent. If memory softens, realtime inch to foot sight 40inchplus may slip, too.

She looked eager. "Maybe Carol's 40 with 40 them." She saw his skepticism 40, or perhaps 40 felt it. "Not the main group, Master free, but plus here, somewhere plus."

4.

It was still in inch her free purse and she hadn't moved.

Still. She might be 40 a useful foil for plus something he wanted to try. The hotel turned a blind eye to what he did with junior staff, as long as he wasn't carrying them inch off like towels plus. Also, with the blown minds he 40inchplus'd be dealing 40inchplus with, touching and using someone whose 40 thoughts weren't etched by the flaring 40inchplus lights and 40inchplus invasive sound inch would be like to a chaser to drink in inch to foot relief.

Master. The concierge foot girl. She's plus--

Yes, Master. I'll handle it. He paused, seeing 40 through her mind. The 40inchplus girl faced 40 Tabitha in the quiet plus hallway, perhaps aware that he held every room on inch this floor, that she was either alone or worse here 40. He tried reaching through to her thoughts, but not having enslaved her to yet he inch to foot lacked access. He 40inchplus wondered if she knew how badly her friends were faring, that some 40 of them 40inchplus were already at the point of inch crawling to him for the privilege of going after her if they knew 40.

Maybe Tabitha should tell inch her that.

Decker accepted that the new 40inchplus brain-noise could be a planned inch to foot element: deep hypnosis for the girl 40 in another location, before they started to, and an all-purpose command to hear and replay whatever inch to foot she foot heard, to blend in plus. But he free made an intuitive leap that it had been a tactical improvisation. A Carol move, right here.

She inch to foot sprinted away from Tabitha, and Tabitha silently begged inch to foot orders. He 40inchplus thought of the floorplan. Follow her fast. Locked rooms and inch to foot an electrical closet that way. He started walking quickly down the hall to where they 40 were.

A worthy girl 40inchplus, even enslaved.

Decker looked 40 at 40 her. She free'd thought she had forty seconds inch of free will left, and this was what she'd inch to foot done with it 40.

Why wasn't 40inchplus she shooting?

She'd just sent all her friends, her troops, into what she must have 40 known would be a trap, sprung 40 his 40 snares, and somehow gotten past Duke and the rest of to his people. Or inch to foot had they gotten past her? Had inch she already been inch holed up here in the hotel since before they'd even inch to foot arrived free--waiting?

No. This was what some people turned into inch when they were afraid enough.

He waited. They 40 all stood there.

Why wasn't she shooting?

Carol foot's eyes drifted aside, to Tabitha free, who stood calmly now, knowing her foot Master was in control. Carol looked at her 40inchplus friend, and he inch to foot saw her pupils dilate. He waited for inch the . . .

He reached 40inchplus into 40 her.

Relax.

She fought. Her free body started to shake.

His slave sighed happily in his mind, grateful to be able 40 to move 40 again, but gladder for her Master 40's gain.

Saw the wire. Saw something shift under plus the loose clothing. Not overweight.

6.

Then, seeing it reduced to an effect, he made them stop.

Or . . . was 40 she triumphant because her insane plan had worked, and she'd pitted inch herself against his mind deliberately to use plus her own crumbling foot will--as the detonator?

He 40 couldn't free think about Tabitha, and so he gnawed away at plus the quandary 40 and free hated Carol for that foot instead.

Sometimes, he thought Which 40 was it inch to foot, you fucking cold-blooded--?