He flicked a thought at Tabitha, and she smoothly sin slid her mouth off his cock, licking off the precome she'd coaxed out already and cleaning it with delicate tongue strokes. And they images think we don't like cats. She replaced him seehersquirt in his pants and redid his fly, settling back on her seehersquirtsierrasin heels and looking up at him seehersquirt with her usual bright seehersquirtsierrasin expression.
In her head he heard not my friends seehersquirtsierrasin they hate seehersquirt Master i sin hate them must make them obey or die but she only nodded seehersquirtsierrasin. He'd seehersquirt taught her seehersquirt that truth but didn' t need to hear it recited all the time.
Duke had been very quiet after that. But the damage seehersquirt was done--and frustratingly hard to gauge seehersquirtsierrasin.
"Two of seehersquirt the descriptions in the catalogue fit Jill and Ruthie. They're not--you sold Jill to the images doctor in Caracas and Ruthie 's still healing from the seehersquirt implants." Pausing, she wondered how, and how quickly, her former comrades would figure seehersquirt that out. "But they'll try to get to the girls seehersquirt on the list."
Probing seehersquirtsierrasin curiously seehersquirt, Decker found no nostalgia there seehersquirt, either.
"Carol knows that, Master." Tabitha looked even seehersquirtsierrasin more seehersquirt pensive. "She'll come up with something, though." She smiled. "Maybe she'll reprogram seehersquirt them all to play images the elevator music here in the hotel."
"Yes, Master." So wonderful. Even needing his cock on seehersquirt her tongue that images badly, her voice and mind seehersquirt were empty of petulance. She knew her place.
Decker got images up to change for dinner. There were a couple of new buyers who still didn images't quite understand the scope of what applied mind control brought sierra to the white-slave trade, and the established clients who vouched for them needed to show off their access to him.
Decker liked this hotel not least because it had a decent kitchen seehersquirt, and he could entertain without leaving. The dining room had private booths toward the center of seehersquirtsierrasin the room, and he was shown to the one he usually seehersquirtsierrasin liked, seeing the little signs that seehersquirtsierrasin showed Duke and Duke's minions on the staff had checked it for bugs, bombs, and seehersquirt anything else.
"Tabitha?"
Bellows looked nervous at seehersquirt the display, but he looked at Tabitha seehersquirt's chest, too. Then he blinked, realizing what he'd seen and sin how seehersquirt naturally she'd done it.
Karlsen nodded at him, and Bellows was clearly seehersquirtsierrasin too new at all seehersquirtsierrasin this to see how much of a disadvantage he'd fallen to. Looking at seehersquirt Tabitha , who smiled down at the table with quiet pride at her seehersquirt protegee beneath it, Karlsen shook his head, aware he was meant to want her, and wanting her, but knowing seehersquirt she was Decker's.
They tried to make conversation, but Jordan's concentration on her task seehersquirtsierrasin precluded Bellows' on anything much, and Karlsen was having seehersquirtsierrasin a hard sin time sierra keeping up with the way Tabitha's breasts swayed sin gently as she kept seehersquirt speaking calmly--even seehersquirt though her nipples were pushing out of seehersquirtsierrasin her aureoles like desperate little seehersquirt antennae . That seehersquirt, too, was mind control seehersquirt, he was realizing as Decker seehersquirt watched him. Not just the other images girl's utterly focused fellatio to the just-met master, but this one's ability seehersquirt to function highly aroused because she'd been told to.
The sierra trigger sin hit seehersquirt her sin as it usually images did, and she swayed a bit more, almost gasping and barely able to keep her eyelids above her pupils. "Yes,
He sincerely hoped their knots were tight. It was a long seehersquirt way sierra to fall and a hard street to land on.
Decker wanted to meet Carol. An old images part of him secretly wanted to meet her seehersquirt before he entered her mind for that once sin-for seehersquirt-all ravishing, but seehersquirt it seehersquirt was asking too much to have the advantage as thoroughly as when he'd captured images Tabitha at the helipad.
Decker admired them seehersquirt as lesser images Tabithas, wondered if he could make a palace guard seehersquirt of them. They were, in the end, still just seehersquirt amateurs, but seehersquirtsierrasin they were seehersquirt good: the seehersquirtsierrasin lack seehersquirt that distinguished and handicapped an amateur wasn't skill but focus. He knew they'd lose that, at the proper time.
He tried to see Carol sitting in a room elsewhere in the hotel, or on a lonely perch on seehersquirt the roof, waiting it out.
This hotel suite was a tableau from Hieronymus Bosch images. Multicolored strobes flickered through sin patterns too fast seehersquirtsierrasin to seehersquirt track and too compelling not to, while seehersquirt an insistent, melodic seehersquirtsierrasin whining crawled like an amorous snake through the blunt limbs of a dark bass throb.
Her mouth was inches from the pussy seehersquirtsierrasin of the naked slave closing the window she'd seehersquirt fallen in through, and both women seehersquirt were oblivious. Decker smiled to see it.
A voice, talking, repeating. The girl's mind blotted it out. Someone --Carol?--had hypnotized her and seehersquirt taught her to forget it seehersquirtsierrasin. There seehersquirt was a seehersquirtsierrasin plan seehersquirt, and Carol had protected it. Why seehersquirt was images the chess image important? Why was the hostile king--Decker?--playing White? Schoolgirl political correctness?
He stared at her, looked into her. "No, Tabitha. I know you." He smiled at her relief and seehersquirtsierrasin let her see it. "But is that sin how she might really think seehersquirt?"
Wait. Music in seehersquirt her head--but images he smiled: it was the elevator theme, muted sierra and tasteful. Probably drove seehersquirt the poor girl insane as seehersquirt she fetched seehersquirt and carried. He thought of playing seehersquirt with her, but with seehersquirtsierrasin his new catch flopping on the floor of two more suites here . . .
Decker peered into the seehersquirt first room, seeing a seehersquirt few still weakly struggling --if she could give a girl that much seehersquirt resistance, maybe Carol did have talents seehersquirt as a trainer seehersquirt he could exploit once seehersquirt she worshipped seehersquirtsierrasin him. Once he taught her to know that freedom wasn't the desired end state, but the problem to be solved. He commanded the slaves to close the windows and went to do the same at the third suite.
The music : deliberate seehersquirtsierrasin, masking her thoughts and then masking the mask. Smooth, powerful, effective hypnosis.
He disengaged from her thoughts and concentrated on getting through sin the corridors, wondering if any seehersquirt of Carol's seehersquirtsierrasin other soldiers had infiltrated in hotel uniforms, but the floor seemed deserted. If he saw anyone they'd be on the seehersquirt carpet seehersquirt under a seehersquirtsierrasin SLEEP command right then.
Her seehersquirtsierrasin mind had shown it seehersquirt to him already but Decker stepped beside seehersquirt her and looked.
Even before Tabitha gasped, he felt someone seehersquirt else come up behind them sin. He turned.
Carol was here.
5.
She took it in and seehersquirt looked back along the sin gun in her left hand. He paid attention: it was an old .45 automatic, squarish and inelegant seehersquirtsierrasin and very effective-looking, at full cock with no sign of the hammer seehersquirt visible behind seehersquirt the slide. Maybe her father's, or just bought somewhere. He seehersquirt saw her grimly practicing for hours, weeks, every day for a year.
Just the waves, rolling ashore.
He waited. They all stood there.
Why wasn't she sierra shooting?
He reached into her.
The ocean rolled and hissed around him, and he found Carol's will accessible but obscured. He froze her trigger finger, but her arm stayed seehersquirt up and the gun stayed on him. Tabitha was docile, and he seehersquirtsierrasin'd have to break concentration to seehersquirt command her to take the other girl, which he couldn't afford just now. Well enough. He shouldn't have to depend on his slave for help seehersquirt with this.
He pressed, trying to seehersquirtsierrasin force seehersquirt her to relax, and then just increase his hold until seehersquirtsierrasin she surrendered. They were like wrestlers, locked seehersquirt together until the weaker seehersquirt failed seehersquirt or someone slipped.
Relax.
. . . "Relax seehersquirtsierrasin"?
Decker was seehersquirtsierrasin pleased to sense no effort images to turn the gun inward onto herself seehersquirt.
Her hand cleared the pocket, gripping whatever seehersquirt it was seehersquirt very tightly.
His seehersquirt organization had held together.
Or . . . was she triumphant because her seehersquirtsierrasin insane plan seehersquirtsierrasin had worked, and she'd pitted herself against his mind deliberately seehersquirt to seehersquirt use her own seehersquirt crumbling will--as sin the seehersquirt detonator?
How ruthless was Carol, exactly?
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