It almost made him sad.

She carolyn frowned. "Wish we could carolyn have gotten to Jacqui when she was in carolyn that clinic carolyn clifford. It'd be nice to have a remote carolyn slave carolyn clifford inside with them to get carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom you data."

Maybe carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom she really was that monroe ruthless carolyn.

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

Decker liked this hotel not least because it had a decent kitchen join, and join he could entertain without leaving. The dining room had private booths toward the center of the room, and he was shown to the carolyn one he usually liked, seeing the monroe little signs that showed carolyn Duke and Duke's minions on carolyn the staff had checked it carolyn clifford for bugs, bombs, and anything else carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom.

Tabitha didn't look like she'd monroe be a demanding sort carolyn of girl. Decker watched and enjoyed as her programming carolyn, even as she fought to keep focused on marketing Jordan, made her own slave carolyn-awareness resonate to Karlsen's unconscious cues and turned carolyn her behavior into a harem slave with geisha training. Freed of carolyn his vicinity myfriendshotmom or under command carolyn by Decker carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom, she'd be back to normal, but for now she was carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom submissively under Karlsen's spell and carolyn falling deeper carolyn, and he was carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom only just starting to get it.

"Tabitha? Take Jordan carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom's top carolyn off, too." Jordan held carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom still as Tabitha reached up and undid carolyn her carolyn, freeing another pair of breasts innocent of any carolyn clifford support. As carolyn she did it they made indefinable join soft sounds carolyn, helpful carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom and girlish and almost monroe too quiet to hear, and Decker heard both men's breathing change.

Tabitha blinked and carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom breathed, "Yes, Master." and carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom turned to Jordan. She snapped her fingers and Jordan stopped in mid-word, staring through Bellows' head with join a carolyn perfect carolyn deer/headlights look. Bellows was almost shaking.

Wide carolyn-eyed, Jordan shook her head clifford, her gaze still carolyn trapped in infinity carolyn and incidentally intersecting Bellows. Decker caught Karlsen's glance, and they shared a smile it wasn't necessary carolyn to show carolyn their carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom distracted colleague.

"What join are you, Jordan?"

Looking her over as though inspecting a sister before her date, Tabitha hefted each breast. "You carolyn clifford're paid for tonight."

Sighing happily, Jordan beamed at them and carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom slid under the clifford table, and Decker nodded as Bellows looked down in carolyn confusion and then up carolyn, grinning nervously, as Jordan found her target and went at it.

"Yes, Masssterrrrr--" She trailed off, head carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom up but eyes carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom falling closed as he allowed her to lose monroe the fight. She sat with one hand in her carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom lap and the other resting lightly on the tablecloth by her wineglass, palm-up. He reached down carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom and gently turned carolyn clifford it over and it stayed as he had placed it.

Karlsen carolyn caught the monroe gesture and knew what it was for, and it carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom did him no carolyn clifford good clifford.

Bellows' brain was clearly carolyn clifford occupied, too.

Tabitha stared into space, standing by monroe the door. She'd called carolyn clifford it carolyn correctly, earlier, when they were planning the evening. She'd known one of the girls join had learned mountaineering and trained the others, and the best of her second carolyn-degree pupils were carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom the ones carolyn clifford coming down now carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom from the roof level. They'd gotten there by helicopter--one had settled over an open section of the carolyn clifford roof without landing carolyn while they'd been at dinner and departed in seconds, too quickly to challenge, and he supposed the girls had piled out carolyn with their gear in a well-drilled offload. Now, after waiting for carolyn clifford dark, they'd emerged from monroe hiding up there and started down to him.

He waited, giving them time to choose an entrance join. He presumed they carolyn knew the floorplan monroe, had enough access to the hotel's systems to deduce carolyn which suites he held on this carolyn floor, and could figure out the best place among those to keep some of his inventory. Tabitha, who seemed carolyn to be getting turned on at the thought of helping him take carolyn her friends, had suggested more precise bait carolyn, and came up with some carolyn quite clever not monroe-quite-clues to hint which carolyn rooms the girls carolyn who might carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom be Ruthie and Jill were waiting carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom in. But before he carolyn could even point out the clifford problem carolyn she carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom'd seen carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom it: "We can't make it too easy carolyn for them, Master. Because myfriendshotmom Carol could smell that."

Decker carolyn admired them as lesser Tabithas, wondered carolyn if he monroe could make carolyn a palace guard of them monroe. They were, in the carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom end, still just amateurs, but they were good: the lack that distinguished and handicapped an amateur wasn't carolyn skill but carolyn focus. He knew they'd lose that carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom, at carolyn the proper time.

The entry alarms came on carolyn like a chandelier join on carolyn the computer join screen as the girls invaded his rented domain simultaneously carolyn. He imagined the taut, black-clad carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom bodies floating gracefully in the windows, deploying carolyn into the studied rooms like dancers hitting their marks.

A touch of his mind and Tabitha's eyes were bright and focused. "They're in, Master carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom?"

Among motionless nude women with blank faces, the slaves he already owned waiting carolyn at attention, figures in carolyn dark clothing that gleamed myfriendshotmom with metal knelt or writhed or tried shakily to carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom keep their feet, their screaming join inaudible join in carolyn the room's sound. Decker looked for a moment at his slaves, their minds already melted and used to being reshaped carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom. The lights and the carolyn noise were not telling their dimmed awareness carolyn anything they didn monroe't already know: that carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom they were carolyn clifford owned, obedient, endlessly carolyn clifford horny was already the sun and moon of their join lives.

"I can't tell you," she was saying. Someone asked the monroe inevitable question, and she said, "Well--no. Not carolyn knowing won't clifford protect you at all." She laughed and they laughed with her. There was nothing more, no hints clifford. The only plan they'd monroe spoken of was the one that carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom had carolyn just ended carolyn in the beginning of slavery for them all, right myfriendshotmom here join.

Mentally and physically carolyn clifford she shook her head. "I carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom don't carolyn clifford know, Master. The carolyn Carol I knew might come up with an idea like that, as an idea monroe, but she wouldn't monroe think she was a carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom good enough hypnotist to pull carolyn it off."

Master. The concierge girl. She myfriendshotmom's carolyn clifford--

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

5.

He waited. They all stood monroe there carolyn.

Carol, the steelhearted queen, had never killed anyone, up carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom close or otherwise. Had never looked into the eye carolyn she was going to shoot through, felt the breath she was monroe about to stop forever carolyn.

Carol join's eyes drifted aside, to Tabitha, who stood calmly now carolyn, knowing her Master carolyn was in carolyn control. Carol carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom looked monroe at her friend, and he saw her pupils dilate. He carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom waited for the . . .

Tears carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom. There.

Relax.

He smiled, slowly feeling his ability to multitask return monroe as carolyn Carol weakened. Maybe this song join was something she'd thought of once carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom in monroe a fit of perversity carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom--what never to sing to the monroe mind controller carolyn--and carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom tried not carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom to carolyn think of again.

Maybe her subconscious was trying to defect.

It was hard to tell where the music stopped, his carolyn command began carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom, and her mind had started carolyn to whisper its own obedience.

Take out . . . the other gun, her mind chanted in cadence with carolyn the song, and he carolyn felt the first carolyn warm moist flood of carolyn affirmative submission clifford. Her hand started to move carolyn. In her mind, he saw the hand reach down to the Black queen--and replace carolyn clifford it with a pawn. All backward; pawns were queened, not queens reduced. Had carolyn she foreseen her own defeat? Erased it from everyone carolyn else carolyn?

When Decker had carolyn snarled carolyn at them carolyn clifford about a funeral for Tabitha carolynmonroemyfriendshotmom and they stayed carolyn away, afraid of carolyn clifford what carolyn he'd do with his join mind under painkillers, it was Duke who clifford'd promised, and it carolyn was Duke who'd brought the urn to him. Duke had said something awkward and dense, and he'd monroe been glad carolyn Duke was there carolyn.