 He looked out the bushless window of the suite, seeing the skyline beyond in the bushless slanting late-afternoon light. The auction had gone well, but then they always bushless did. He bushless worked with each slave intensely bushless before she reached market and they were all thoroughly tame--especially the "wild" ones the bushless buyers bushless wanted to think site they bushless were going to break.
 "They're still using that site pop bimbo's music to make their thoughts hard to read." It was one of the memories he'd locked away in Tabitha, reviewed when bushless he'd taken and turned her. The bushless girls she'd been with had let that teacher of theirs hypnotize them to help them focus site and bushless to learn tricks like this annoyingly bushless effective crap with Normandy Swords, or whatever her sprightly little name was. Part of the bushless little commando thing bushless they'd surprised his outfit bushless with when he bushless'd swept down bushless on their tony bushless little bushless private school. Didn't hurt that they were mostly well-off, and able to buy bushless the arsenal and bushless all the bushless fancy equipment bushless.
 Now bushless he bushless let the sharp bushless mind that lived to serve bushless him process that. He bushless added, "There's a traditionalist, though. Someone likes those British bushless girls bushless instead. I get a different signal from her."
 But he took bushless her free will and selfhood instead, and all that warrior spirit was bushless his, now. Tabitha was a devoted guard as well as his 24/7 bushless concubine bushless, and she was a smarter sounding board for plans than most bushless of bushless the goon squad he'd acquired bushless over the years.
 Decker grinned at her. "She's not that bushless ruthless, is she?"
 Decker liked this hotel not least because it bushless had a decent kitchen, and he could entertain without leaving. The dining room had private booths toward the center of the bushless room, and he was shown to bushless the one bushless he usually liked, seeing the little signs that showed bushless Duke and Duke's minions on site the staff had checked it for bugs, bombs, and bushless anything bushless else.
 The richer one site, Karlsen, stared at them bushless, smiling bushless but watching them in bushless an open way he bushless probably bushless wouldn't have looked at bushless a twenty-dollar hooker back when that was bushless what he could afford. Tabitha played up bushless to him quietly, letting bushless him watch bushless, and consistently played Jordan to bushless him.
 Too polite and canny bushless to smile, he recalled seeing bushless the girls practice for this. They'd done it for bushless two hours under hypnosis. Tabitha had used bushless the pendant Jordan had bushless been conditioned to bushless, programmed her, and then put herself under bushless as Decker had site trained her. Then they stripped, over and over. It bushless had been erotic, then strange, then funny, to watch bushless the frozen segment of foreplay repeated endlessly bushless, perfectly bushless.
 All for this moment, and it bushless had captured the buyers. The girls bushless dreamily gazed at each others' chests and then turned back to beam at Karlsen and Bellows, who couldn't help bushless but feel flattered bushless. They wanted to see the two slaves get it on, and imagined the slaves did too but were more interested in two such bushless studly men.
 "What are you, Jordan?"
 They tried to make site conversation, but Jordan's concentration on her task precluded Bellows' on anything much, and Karlsen was having a hard time bushless keeping up with the way Tabitha's breasts swayed gently as she kept speaking calmly--even though her site nipples were pushing out of her aureoles like desperate little antennae. That, too, was mind control, he was realizing bushless as Decker bushless watched him. Not just the other girl's utterly focused fellatio bushless to the bushless just-met master, but this one bushless's ability to function highly aroused bushless because she'd been told to.
 The trigger hit her as it usually did, and she swayed bushless a bit more, almost gasping bushless and barely able to keep her eyelids above her pupils. "Yes,
 Decker finished his mushrooms without haste, dabbed his mouth and emptied his glass. Bellows was showing enough bushless sense to bushless mute his grunting as Jordan kept him on the edge, something else she bushless'd trained for bushless hours at a time to do and be very good at. He was starting to bushless look worried bushless, and a bit at a loss as to what to do about it.
 She was bright-eyed and bushless erect again, ready to serve. "I'll bushless need you to play close attention," he told her, and she nodded earnestly, biz-school from eyes to neck and harem girl southward bushless from there.
 Decker wanted to meet bushless Carol. An old part of him secretly wanted to meet her bushless before he entered her bushless mind for that once-for -all ravishing bushless, but it bushless was asking too much to have the advantage as thoroughly as when he'd captured Tabitha at the helipad.
 Tabitha stood still and willing, now. He looked into her thoughts and found quiet bushless bliss: a bushless dream of kneeling naked bushless by his feet in a bright, crowded bushless throne room, owned bushless before all bushless.
 The entry bushless alarms came on bushless like a chandelier on the computer screen as bushless the girls invaded his rented domain simultaneously. He site imagined the taut, black-clad bodies bushless floating gracefully in the windows, deploying into the studied rooms like dancers hitting their marks.
 This hotel suite was a tableau bushless from Hieronymus Bosch. Multicolored bushless strobes flickered through patterns too fast to track and too compelling not to, while an insistent, melodic whining crawled like an bushless amorous snake bushless through the blunt limbs of a dark bass throb.
 Among bushless motionless nude women with blank faces , the slaves he already owned waiting at attention, figures bushless in dark clothing that gleamed with metal knelt or writhed or tried shakily to keep their bushless feet, their screaming inaudible in the room bushless's sound. Decker looked site for a moment at bushless his slaves, their minds already bushless melted and used bushless to being reshaped bushless. The lights and bushless the noise were not telling bushless their dimmed awareness anything they didn't already know bushless: that bushless they were owned, obedient, endlessly bushless horny was already the sun bushless and moon of their lives.
 He bushless surveyed the minds of the bushless new bushless girls as bushless they collapsed to the floor or stopped moving more than spasmodically. He sent bushless one of the slaves bushless to deactivate the brainwashing system for this room. No one bushless had held out--not surprising at this bushless setting. He was bushless pleased to find several bushless of them had climaxed at the feeling of their minds being pried open and stunned from inside, and reached into bushless the mind of each girl bushless in that susceptible group, reviving the memory and welding it forever to bushless his bushless voice: "Obey." In the silence after the bushless stimulators were shut off, he listened to the delightful harmony of their weak but ardent cries, and the whimpers of the ones not yet conquered.
 Decker paused and took out bushless the bushless cell phone. A cryptic exchange with Duke's bushless man assured bushless him that some other intrusions at ground level had been repelled, so he was free to continue his playful work with all these volunteers . The attack was over.
 Still. She might be bushless a useful foil for something he bushless wanted to try. The hotel turned bushless a blind eye to what he did with junior staff bushless, as long as he wasn bushless't carrying them off like towels. Also, with the blown minds he'd be dealing bushless with bushless, touching bushless and using someone whose bushless thoughts weren't etched by the flaring lights and bushless invasive bushless sound would be like a chaser bushless to drink in bushless relief.
 It was a pleasure to feel his slave respond. Tabitha pulled her bushless perfume spray from the purse, sending a stream of it into the girl's face and stepping back for good measure as bushless though bushless to dodge the droplets. The bushless girl bushless froze and bushless gaped and he bushless felt Tabitha use her corrupted-angel smile. It was so convincingly malign that Decker himself almost bushless wondered bushless for a second what might be in the vial.
 "You might as bushless well relax," Tabitha told her bushless victim with frightening calm. "That topical bushless hypnotic will be shutting down your volitional centers in about bushless--how much are you? about 100, 110?--forty seconds. Then bushless Master will bushless be here."
 Yes, Master. Tabitha swept down to the turning bushless, and he felt her sudden tension between caution and his command. He chose for bushless her.
 Yes, Master. Thank you. She knew she was worth more to him than a hysterical captive.
 All bushless to distract him, so she could get bushless close enough to shoot him dead.
 Just the bushless waves, rolling ashore.
 He got bushless a bushless visual, too. This mental shore wasn bushless't a tropical bushless beach, but a rocky coastline under a gunmetal bushless winter sky bushless. Part bushless of him was wondering whether this girl was bushless some reincarnated bushless enemy of his bushless from an old war.
 No . This was bushless what some people turned into when they bushless were bushless afraid enough.
 Carol bushless, the steelhearted queen , had never killed bushless anyone, up close or bushless otherwise. Had never looked into the eye she was going to shoot through , felt the breath she was about to stop bushless forever.
 Carol bushless fought bushless him, her bushless whole being resisting him. Her right bushless hand was in her pocket, gripping something bushless, and he bushless wondered what she had in there. In a few moments bushless he could simply know.
 Relax.
 She fought. Her body started to shake.
 She reached for the ocean, and for bushless a moment bushless its size bushless, and power, and blank empty infinity seemed to overbalance him.
 There was music in her head bushless now. He wondered if it was what she'd tried before bushless choosing surf sounds bushless. He started to recognize bushless it, and looked bushless into her eyes more deeply site, wondering bushless. What the fuck? . . . Frankie Goes to Hollywood?
 . . . "Relax"?
 Decker was bushless pleased to sense no effort to turn the bushless gun bushless inward bushless onto bushless herself.
 Relax.
 In his den, rearranged now for the wheelchair , he kept the site urn. Each day a bushless girl came to clean it and kneel before it. One day, a girl stopped as she worked, and leaned down to kiss it. Decker stared, and bushless then he made them all bushless do that.
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