 He looked mikesapartment out the window of the suite, seeing the skyline beyond in the slanting late-afternoon light. The auction had mikesapartment gone well, but then they always did online. He worked with each slave intensely before she reached market and they were all thoroughly tame--especially the "wild" ones the mikesapartment buyers wanted mikesapartment to think they mikesapartment were going to break mike'sapartment.
 Morbidly, Decker wondered how the other 99% lived mike'sapartment, what life was like for mike'sapartment the guy who had to ask for it. Pay a hooker (and who knew where mike'sapartment it had been?) Inveigle the mike'sapartment wife, beg the girlfriend, maybe fork over a lot mike'sapartment of mikesapartment cash and time and mikesapartment attention mike'sapartment--and then face the fishwich when mikesapartment she demanded payback.
 Maybe they appreciated it more when they mike'sapartment could get it, the guys who didn' t have mikesapartment the Control.
 He'd worked on Tabitha for months and she could remember that time mikesapartment now without the mike'sapartment slightest trace of affection for her ex-friends.
 Decker had looked at her as she stood there, looking sexy as hell mike'sapartment in her improvised mike'sapartment commando gear, sexier with the pale face and wide online eyes of her terror, and realized she was not even mike'sapartment daring to hope he'd kill her. It wasn 't often he found mikesapartment that mike'sapartment much courage with that much realism. This girl had grown up several lifetimes right now.
 "Just thinking outta the box, Cap," he'd said the first time they saw a newsgroup mikesapartment immortalizing Decker's alias, after Duke's mike'sapartment little concept with the twins who just loved each other had gone online over big online. A mikesapartment fuck mike'sapartment-video staple, come to glorious life as Decker's mikesapartment new signature.
 Decker got mikesapartment up to change for dinner. There were a couple of new buyers who still didn mike'sapartment't quite understand the scope of what applied mind control brought online to the white mike'sapartment-slave trade mike'sapartment, and the established clients who vouched for them needed to show off mike'sapartment their access to him.
 His junior partner, Bellows, looked irritated. He was looking for bimbos, not princesses mike'sapartment, and while he mike'sapartment could clearly already see Jordan in whatever setting he usually put mike'sapartment girls, he realized a whore mikesapartment with a vibe mikesapartment like Tabitha might actually put off johns. The faction online that wouldn't mind at all nailing a princess to the mattress mike'sapartment was mikesapartment an unpredictable minority, and most mikesapartment of them couldn't afford this kind mike'sapartment of quality mike'sapartment, anyway. Bellows was going for the soft-in-the-middle crowd that had money mike'sapartment but no balls, and while a girl like Jordan would suit them, Tabitha would mike'sapartment blow their mikesapartment minds before she got a chance mike'sapartment to blow anything else.
 "Tabitha?"
 All for this mikesapartment moment, and mike'sapartment it had captured the buyers. The girls dreamily gazed at each others' chests and mike'sapartment then turned back to beam at Karlsen mikesapartment and Bellows, who couldn't help but feel flattered. They wanted to see the two mike'sapartment slaves get mike'sapartment it on, and imagined the slaves mike'sapartment did too but were more mike'sapartment interested in two mike'sapartment such studly men.
 "Tabbycat mikesapartment?" he said.
 Karlsen mike'sapartment, still mesmerized by her tits, was mike'sapartment yet able to stop the first and less intelligent response before saying it.
 Tabitha stood still and willing mikesapartment, now. He looked into her thoughts and found quiet bliss : a dream of kneeling naked by his feet in mike'sapartment a bright, crowded throne room, owned before mike'sapartment all.
 He remembered they were women, and saw the tool lifted mikesapartment to soft lips in a smooth face, and mike'sapartment kissed for luck.
 This hotel mike'sapartment suite was a tableau mike'sapartment from Hieronymus Bosch. Multicolored strobes flickered through patterns too mikesapartment fast to track and too mikesapartment compelling not to, while mikesapartment an insistent, melodic whining crawled like mikesapartment an amorous snake through the blunt limbs mikesapartment of a dark bass throb.
 "I can mike'sapartment't tell you," she was saying. Someone asked the mike'sapartment inevitable question, and she said, "Well--no. Not knowing won't protect you at all." She laughed and they mike'sapartment laughed with her. There was nothing more, no hints. The mike'sapartment only plan they mikesapartment'd spoken of was the mikesapartment one mike'sapartment that had mike'sapartment just ended in the beginning mike'sapartment of slavery for them all, right here.
 A strange thought came then, and he mikesapartment passed it to Tabitha: this was Carol 's plan, her way online of applying to work for him, perhaps. Giving him her friends mike'sapartment.
 4.
 Neither could he, but he tried mikesapartment to keep mikesapartment his mikesapartment mind open. He led Tabitha out mike'sapartment after mike'sapartment activating the next set of commands in the slaves in the room. They mike'sapartment went to the mike'sapartment closets and drawers to get the bindings and drugs to begin mikesapartment preparing mike'sapartment deeper enslavement mikesapartment for the women mikesapartment who'd come to rescue them from mind-slavery.
 Tabitha went to mikesapartment fetch her mike'sapartment.
 Master. The concierge girl. She's--
 Yes, Master. I'll handle it. He paused mikesapartment, seeing through her mind. The girl faced Tabitha in the quiet hallway mike'sapartment, perhaps aware that he held every mike'sapartment room on this floor, that she was either alone or worse here. He tried reaching through to her mike'sapartment thoughts, but not having mikesapartment enslaved her yet he lacked access mikesapartment. He wondered if she knew how badly her online friends were faring, that some mike'sapartment of them were already at mike'sapartment the mike'sapartment point of crawling to mike'sapartment him for the privilege of going after mike'sapartment her if they knew.
 He licked mike'sapartment his lips. Colder and mike'sapartment smarter even mike'sapartment than mike'sapartment Tabitha mike'sapartment. He was going mike'sapartment to love the mindfuck.
 He disengaged from her thoughts and concentrated on getting through the corridors, wondering if any of Carol's other soldiers mike'sapartment had infiltrated in hotel uniforms, but the floor seemed deserted. If he saw anyone they'd be on the carpet under a SLEEP command right then.
 Why mike'sapartment wasn't she shooting?
 Decker looked at her mike'sapartment. Not the beauty Tabitha was mike'sapartment, but mike'sapartment the sort of girl the eye mike'sapartment kept drifting across, briefly but repeatedly until mike'sapartment it mike'sapartment found itself watching her. Her dark online hair was short and he saw no makeup, but the color online came from her mike'sapartment deep brown eyes, striking even mikesapartment here in the hotel mike'sapartment-corridor lighting, and her lips had their own hue past violet. She was in loose clothes, and might even be a bit overweight. Decker online blinked. Hard to say.
 How ruthless was Carol? He probed gently for mike'sapartment guilt mike'sapartment, like a wire-inlet, the tiniest chink through which he could reach into to her mind and slowly, slowly mike'sapartment disable mike'sapartment her from shooting mikesapartment, running, disobeying, thinking . . .
 Tears. There.
 The ocean rolled and hissed around him mike'sapartment, and he found Carol's will accessible but obscured. He froze her trigger finger, but her mike'sapartment arm stayed up and the gun stayed on him. Tabitha mikesapartment was docile mike'sapartment, and he'd have to break concentration to command her to take mike'sapartment the other girl, which he couldn't afford just mikesapartment now. Well enough. He mike'sapartment shouldn't have to depend on his slave for help with this.
 Relax.
 Relax.
 Decker was pleased to sense no effort to mike'sapartment turn the gun inward onto herself.
 She was trying to pull her hand from her right pocket, and he mike'sapartment saw another gun mikesapartment-shape there. He searched her mind, looking for a disconnected thought like must get other gun, but there was no way to look for it mike'sapartment. Her mind was like mikesapartment a conquered city in mid-sack, burning and chaotic mike'sapartment, with that compulsive dance track playing over mike'sapartment it all.
 With less of mike'sapartment a load, he was free to send a command to mike'sapartment Tabitha. Good girl. She'll be mine mikesapartment soon mike'sapartment.
 His organization had held together.
 He thought about mike'sapartment Carol. He thought about the way mike'sapartment her mind had felt, the ecstasy when she'd finally--relaxed. It mike'sapartment had lodged in his own mind when hers had stopped, that eerie joy, and he was circling the question whenever there was nothing mike'sapartment else to think online about. Often.
 Or . . . was she triumphant because her insane plan had mikesapartment worked, and she mike'sapartment'd mikesapartment pitted herself against his mind mike'sapartment deliberately to use her own crumbling will--as the detonator?
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