The girl sucking off Decker did something new with her extremeasses tongue. More by habitual courtesy than for any extremeasses other reason, he grunted in acknowledgement. He was too preoccupied to enjoy it extremeasses, really.
It was always good for her.
"They're still using that pop bimbo's music extremeasses to extremeasses make extremeasses their thoughts hard to read." It was one of the memories he'd locked away in Tabitha, reviewed when extremeasses he extremeasses'd taken and turned her. The girls she'd been with had let that teacher of theirs hypnotize them to extremeasses help them focus and to learn tricks extremeasses like this annoyingly effective crap with extremeasses Normandy Swords, or extremeasses whatever her sprightly little name was. Part of the little commando thing they'd extremeasses surprised his outfit with when he'd swept down on their tony little extremeasses private school. Didn't hurt that they were mostly well-off, and extremeasses able to buy the arsenal and all the fancy equipment extremeasses.
Tabitha smiled extremeasses. "Teri, for sure. She always had to extremeasses be unique. Everyone extremeasses else just went with Eva's suggestion." Eva, the extremeasses teacher extremeasses, was dead now, but Decker had been surprised at what she extremeasses'd extremeasses done with a clutch of schoolgirls. They extremeasses'd fought him well extremeasses. Her star pupil extremeasses, a girl named Carol extremeasses, led welcome them now, and she was no extremeasses mean adversary either.
Decker admired anyone who took it all seriously. It depressed him extremeasses that only these fucking schoolgirls, victims in any extremeasses proper universe, got the idea. He accepted the fact that he'd created them, he and people like him who'd done so much and extremeasses frightened so many with mind control in recent extremeasses years. But extremeasses these women had risen to it.
He looked extremeasses at Tabitha, remembered her facing him on extremeasses the helipad after she extremeasses'd held him and his people off with neat three-round bursts, as her extremeasses friends made their escape from the school in welcome one extremeasses of his choppers with thirty of his livestock drugged on board. He never knew if she extremeasses would extremeasses have been able to fire the last round (she extremeasses'd been counting them, for god's sake) into extremeasses her own head extremeasses, because he reached into her mind and stopped her. But he'd felt the faint pressure extremeasses as her mind tried, and he'd only felt girls fight that hard to escape extremeasses--not extremeasses to extremeasses finish killing themselves.
It almost made extremeasses him sad.
Decker extremeasses nodded, groaning inwardly. Duke extremeasses's idea three years ago extremeasses, his move extremeasses toward being extremeasses "innovative extremeasses" in "marketing." White slavery was an old business, and it liked old values--decent product extremeasses prepped extremeasses right. Gimmicks were for amateurs. Which extremeasses Duke was, with anything other than extremeasses an Uzi or a cattle prod.
"Carol knows that extremeasses, Master." Tabitha looked even more welcome pensive. "She'll extremeasses come up with something extremeasses, though extremeasses." She smiled. "Maybe she'll reprogram them all to play the elevator music here in the hotel."
Tabitha grinned back and extremeasses shook her head. "No one's that extremeasses ruthless, Master."
Maybe she really was that extremeasses ruthless.
Decker liked this hotel not least because it had extremeasses a extremeasses decent kitchen extremeasses, and welcome he could entertain without leaving. The dining room had private booths toward the extremeasses center extremeasses of the extremeasses room, and he was shown to the one he usually liked, seeing extremeasses the extremeasses little signs that showed Duke and Duke's minions on the staff had checked it for extremeasses bugs, bombs extremeasses, and anything else.
"Tabitha? Take Jordan's top off, too." Jordan extremeasses held still as extremeasses Tabitha reached extremeasses up and undid extremeasses her, freeing another pair of breasts innocent of any support. As she did it they made indefinable soft sounds, helpful and girlish and almost too quiet to hear, and Decker heard both men's breathing change.
Wide extremeasses-eyed, Jordan shook her head, her extremeasses gaze still welcome trapped in extremeasses infinity and incidentally intersecting Bellows. Decker extremeasses caught Karlsen extremeasses's glance, and extremeasses they shared a welcome smile it wasn extremeasses't necessary to show their distracted colleague.
Looking her over as though inspecting a sister before her date, Tabitha hefted each breast extremeasses. "You're paid for tonight."
Karlsen smiled and nodded. Decker could welcome see that he would extremeasses get over this quickly, distracted extremeasses as welcome he was by his greater passion for the profit that Jordan and a covey of extremeasses girls just as extremeasses skilled--and utterly obedient--as she was would generate extremeasses for whoever owned them extremeasses. His brain was extremeasses already extremeasses visibly turning over.
"Let extremeasses me get my secretary extremeasses on extremeasses the line, then extremeasses." Decker tapped Tabitha on her nearer nipple, suppressing his reaction to her eager intake of breath. "Tabbycat extremeasses. Wake now."
3.
Decker heard the maddening extremeasses little voice in their heads welcome before he welcome saw the first silent alarm extremeasses. As he extremeasses looked at the floorplan on the screen to see where the girls were coming, the nightmarish extremeasses conceit extremeasses occurred to him that Normandy Swords extremeasses was the voice in their heads, that extremeasses the pop diva was in extremeasses fact a extremeasses wily controller from way back and was sending legions of mindless extremeasses, subliminally enslaved fans against him.
They were taking extremeasses a while, and extremeasses he decided it wasn't funk. Not with these girls extremeasses. A technical problem with something they had. He extremeasses closed his eyes and pictured the malfunctioning gadget extremeasses, the silent curse, the thing set quietly out of the way extremeasses while extremeasses someone pulled out something old-fashioned, the prybar extremeasses or the knife, to use instead extremeasses of the broken tech-toy.
He remembered they extremeasses were women, and saw the welcome tool lifted to soft lips extremeasses in a extremeasses smooth face, and kissed for luck.
The entry welcome alarms came on like a chandelier on the computer screen as extremeasses the welcome girls invaded his rented extremeasses domain simultaneously. He imagined the taut, black-clad bodies floating gracefully in the windows, deploying into the studied rooms like dancers hitting their marks.
He tried to see Carol sitting in a room elsewhere in extremeasses the hotel, or extremeasses on a lonely perch on the extremeasses roof extremeasses, waiting it out.
Decker chose the second of the prepared extremeasses suites and glanced each way extremeasses to see extremeasses the corridor empty as he opened the door and slipped in. Tabitha closed the door quickly after him .
Behind him, he extremeasses knew extremeasses Tabitha extremeasses was alert and excited, her extremeasses mind immunized by his personal training, avidly watching her old comrades being broken extremeasses before extremeasses her eyes extremeasses by her extremeasses master extremeasses's subliminals.
4.
Her mind pulsed. She extremeasses'd extremeasses figured extremeasses it out, from just his posture and the logic of what they both knew extremeasses. She spoke aloud over extremeasses the welcome soft sounds of the conquered girls extremeasses on the extremeasses floor.
Mentally and physically extremeasses she extremeasses shook her head. "I don extremeasses't extremeasses know, Master. The Carol extremeasses I extremeasses knew might extremeasses come up extremeasses with an idea like that, as an idea, but extremeasses she wouldn't think she was a good enough hypnotist welcome to pull it off."
Neither could he, but he tried to keep his extremeasses mind open. He led Tabitha out after extremeasses activating the extremeasses next set of commands in the slaves in the room. They went to the closets and drawers to get the bindings and drugs to begin preparing deeper enslavement for the women extremeasses who'd come to rescue them from mind-slavery.
His extremeasses inhibition against using her gun was extremeasses below words and welcome instant, but he felt Tabitha already minded that way.
He saw recognition in her extremeasses eyes as she caught Tabitha's. They must have extremeasses pictures of Tabitha , consider her some horrible extremeasses fusion of martyr and archdemon . He rifled Tabitha's mind and extremeasses found no equivalent knowledge of this girl: a new extremeasses recruit since her taking extremeasses, then, not mourning Tabitha as a lost friend but fearing her even more.
The music: deliberate, masking her thoughts and extremeasses then masking the mask. Smooth, powerful, effective hypnosis extremeasses.
It extremeasses was a pleasure extremeasses to feel his slave respond. Tabitha pulled her extremeasses perfume spray from the extremeasses purse, sending a stream of it into the girl's face and stepping back for good measure extremeasses as though to extremeasses dodge the droplets. The girl froze and gaped and he felt extremeasses Tabitha use her corrupted-angel smile. It was so convincingly malign extremeasses that Decker himself almost wondered for a second what might be in the extremeasses vial.
He extremeasses found the extremeasses turn and looked for whatever empty extremeasses room the girl welcome had fled to. He found Tabitha at the electrical closet instead, in extremeasses front extremeasses of its open door. Her face extremeasses was extremeasses white and she shook, and when extremeasses he looked into her mind he saw that only his control was keeping her extremeasses quiet and upright. Part of her was begging extremeasses to be allowed to phase out, to be released extremeasses from her enhanced slave awareness and clarity, but Decker saw that Tabitha was welcome fighting that, staying a slave and as ready as she could be to serve him.
She took it in extremeasses and looked back along the gun in her left hand. He paid attention: it was an old .45 automatic, squarish and inelegant and extremeasses very effective-looking, at full cock with no sign of the extremeasses hammer visible behind the slide. Maybe her extremeasses father's, or just bought somewhere. He saw her grimly practicing for hours extremeasses, weeks, every day for extremeasses a year extremeasses.
Just the waves, rolling ashore.
Why wasn't she shooting?
Ready to die, he extremeasses had little doubt, and extremeasses admired her.
Decker decided to trip her extremeasses. He sent the image extremeasses of extremeasses the chessboard welcome, the new Black queen, and let her wonder why.
He pounced.
She extremeasses reached for the ocean, and for a moment its extremeasses size, and extremeasses power, and blank empty infinity seemed to overbalance him extremeasses.
Relax. Decker stepped aside, and the gun didn't follow, though extremeasses her eyes, glazing and frantic, tried to.
Another square automatic, but not a design he . . .
The unexpected impact of Tabitha extremeasses pushing him hard to the side, getting in extremeasses front extremeasses of him extremeasses.
His organization had held together extremeasses.
Then extremeasses Decker extremeasses was home, still waking up each day extremeasses surprised extremeasses that he existed extremeasses below the waist, and unable to verify extremeasses it unless he used his hands. The paralysis was complete, and extremeasses the girls only gave him massages now.
Some of them were from Carol's group, though after a while not many of them. When he extremeasses'd gotten out of the hospital, he 'd worked on their minds, sometimes extremeasses around the clock. None extremeasses of the ones in that series were salable extremeasses. Not even the freaks would extremeasses buy them. Duke had to have most of them put to welcome sleep.
The girl sucking off Decker did something new with her extremeasses tongue. More by habitual courtesy than for any extremeasses other reason, he grunted in acknowledgement. He was too preoccupied to enjoy it extremeasses, really.
"They're still using that pop bimbo's music extremeasses to extremeasses make extremeasses their thoughts hard to read." It was one of the memories he'd locked away in Tabitha, reviewed when extremeasses he extremeasses'd taken and turned her. The girls she'd been with had let that teacher of theirs hypnotize them to extremeasses help them focus and to learn tricks extremeasses like this annoyingly effective crap with extremeasses Normandy Swords, or extremeasses whatever her sprightly little name was. Part of the little commando thing they'd extremeasses surprised his outfit with when he'd swept down on their tony little extremeasses private school. Didn't hurt that they were mostly well-off, and extremeasses able to buy the arsenal and all the fancy equipment extremeasses.
Tabitha smiled extremeasses. "Teri, for sure. She always had to extremeasses be unique. Everyone extremeasses else just went with Eva's suggestion." Eva, the extremeasses teacher extremeasses, was dead now, but Decker had been surprised at what she extremeasses'd extremeasses done with a clutch of schoolgirls. They extremeasses'd fought him well extremeasses. Her star pupil extremeasses, a girl named Carol extremeasses, led welcome them now, and she was no extremeasses mean adversary either.
He looked extremeasses at Tabitha, remembered her facing him on extremeasses the helipad after she extremeasses'd held him and his people off with neat three-round bursts, as her extremeasses friends made their escape from the school in welcome one extremeasses of his choppers with thirty of his livestock drugged on board. He never knew if she extremeasses would extremeasses have been able to fire the last round (she extremeasses'd been counting them, for god's sake) into extremeasses her own head extremeasses, because he reached into her mind and stopped her. But he'd felt the faint pressure extremeasses as her mind tried, and he'd only felt girls fight that hard to escape extremeasses--not extremeasses to extremeasses finish killing themselves.
Decker extremeasses nodded, groaning inwardly. Duke extremeasses's idea three years ago extremeasses, his move extremeasses toward being extremeasses "innovative extremeasses" in "marketing." White slavery was an old business, and it liked old values--decent product extremeasses prepped extremeasses right. Gimmicks were for amateurs. Which extremeasses Duke was, with anything other than extremeasses an Uzi or a cattle prod.
Tabitha grinned back and extremeasses shook her head. "No one's that extremeasses ruthless, Master."
Decker liked this hotel not least because it had extremeasses a extremeasses decent kitchen extremeasses, and welcome he could entertain without leaving. The dining room had private booths toward the extremeasses center extremeasses of the extremeasses room, and he was shown to the one he usually liked, seeing extremeasses the extremeasses little signs that showed Duke and Duke's minions on the staff had checked it for extremeasses bugs, bombs extremeasses, and anything else.
"Tabitha? Take Jordan's top off, too." Jordan extremeasses held still as extremeasses Tabitha reached extremeasses up and undid extremeasses her, freeing another pair of breasts innocent of any support. As she did it they made indefinable soft sounds, helpful and girlish and almost too quiet to hear, and Decker heard both men's breathing change.
Wide extremeasses-eyed, Jordan shook her head, her extremeasses gaze still welcome trapped in extremeasses infinity and incidentally intersecting Bellows. Decker extremeasses caught Karlsen extremeasses's glance, and extremeasses they shared a welcome smile it wasn extremeasses't necessary to show their distracted colleague.
Karlsen smiled and nodded. Decker could welcome see that he would extremeasses get over this quickly, distracted extremeasses as welcome he was by his greater passion for the profit that Jordan and a covey of extremeasses girls just as extremeasses skilled--and utterly obedient--as she was would generate extremeasses for whoever owned them extremeasses. His brain was extremeasses already extremeasses visibly turning over.
"Let extremeasses me get my secretary extremeasses on extremeasses the line, then extremeasses." Decker tapped Tabitha on her nearer nipple, suppressing his reaction to her eager intake of breath. "Tabbycat extremeasses. Wake now."
Decker heard the maddening extremeasses little voice in their heads welcome before he welcome saw the first silent alarm extremeasses. As he extremeasses looked at the floorplan on the screen to see where the girls were coming, the nightmarish extremeasses conceit extremeasses occurred to him that Normandy Swords extremeasses was the voice in their heads, that extremeasses the pop diva was in extremeasses fact a extremeasses wily controller from way back and was sending legions of mindless extremeasses, subliminally enslaved fans against him.
They were taking extremeasses a while, and extremeasses he decided it wasn't funk. Not with these girls extremeasses. A technical problem with something they had. He extremeasses closed his eyes and pictured the malfunctioning gadget extremeasses, the silent curse, the thing set quietly out of the way extremeasses while extremeasses someone pulled out something old-fashioned, the prybar extremeasses or the knife, to use instead extremeasses of the broken tech-toy.
The entry welcome alarms came on like a chandelier on the computer screen as extremeasses the welcome girls invaded his rented extremeasses domain simultaneously. He imagined the taut, black-clad bodies floating gracefully in the windows, deploying into the studied rooms like dancers hitting their marks.
He tried to see Carol sitting in a room elsewhere in extremeasses the hotel, or extremeasses on a lonely perch on the extremeasses roof extremeasses, waiting it out.
Decker chose the second of the prepared extremeasses suites and glanced each way extremeasses to see extremeasses the corridor empty as he opened the door and slipped in. Tabitha closed the door quickly after him .
4.
Her mind pulsed. She extremeasses'd extremeasses figured extremeasses it out, from just his posture and the logic of what they both knew extremeasses. She spoke aloud over extremeasses the welcome soft sounds of the conquered girls extremeasses on the extremeasses floor.
He extremeasses found the extremeasses turn and looked for whatever empty extremeasses room the girl welcome had fled to. He found Tabitha at the electrical closet instead, in extremeasses front extremeasses of its open door. Her face extremeasses was extremeasses white and she shook, and when extremeasses he looked into her mind he saw that only his control was keeping her extremeasses quiet and upright. Part of her was begging extremeasses to be allowed to phase out, to be released extremeasses from her enhanced slave awareness and clarity, but Decker saw that Tabitha was welcome fighting that, staying a slave and as ready as she could be to serve him.
She took it in extremeasses and looked back along the gun in her left hand. He paid attention: it was an old .45 automatic, squarish and inelegant and extremeasses very effective-looking, at full cock with no sign of the extremeasses hammer visible behind the slide. Maybe her extremeasses father's, or just bought somewhere. He saw her grimly practicing for hours extremeasses, weeks, every day for extremeasses a year extremeasses.
Relax. Decker stepped aside, and the gun didn't follow, though extremeasses her eyes, glazing and frantic, tried to.
His organization had held together extremeasses.
Then extremeasses Decker extremeasses was home, still waking up each day extremeasses surprised extremeasses that he existed extremeasses below the waist, and unable to verify extremeasses it unless he used his hands. The paralysis was complete, and extremeasses the girls only gave him massages now.
Some of them were from Carol's group, though after a while not many of them. When he extremeasses'd gotten out of the hospital, he 'd worked on their minds, sometimes extremeasses around the clock. None extremeasses of the ones in that series were salable extremeasses. Not even the freaks would extremeasses buy them. Duke had to have most of them put to welcome sleep.