It almost man made hunter him sad.
He nodded, remembering man how she'd looked this morning all as he left the suite, sitting naked and crosslegged on the bed with the laptop, ready to spend the day surfing man on hunter his agendas with man time for exercise breaks man. He'd been so taken with her absorption when he came back for a nooner that he'd let her be, staring man at her utterly focused rapture man and leaving. She'd manhunter never known he'd been there.
He wondered. When he'd taken Tabitha he man'd been dealing with the immediacy of her manhunter. The unseen Carol, up in man the chopper as it lifted, piqued his man interest later. As he went manhunter through his new slave's thoughts, he'd seen something beyond even Tabitha manhunter in this other girl, who'd assigned her to that suicide post man. Tabitha had been the champion who volunteered to stay and be lost--but Carol man was her steelhearted liege lady who accepted and blessed her friend's sacrifice, for the greater good, and may well have been hunter making herself look out from the helicopter at what she'd done. Until taught otherwise, Tabitha had worshipped her.
Tabitha closed man her eyes suddenly and hunter sighed man. He hunter looked out the window again. "I know. I'm just not wanting it right now."
She knelt and waited.
"Suck hunter your manhunter thumb," he told her, and saw her obey manhunter with graceful man haste. He reached in and man triggered a man memory, and heard her moan as she fell into the manhunter fantasy, and he watched her writhe for a hunter while, thinking she all'd man earned at least man the fantasy of having him in her mouth as he started to change.
By his side, Tabitha was exquisite all in a satin jumpsuit just loose hunter enough to be chic, and man looked like an unapproachably sleek young woman instead of simply an unaffordably fuckable one. She trailed him to the dining room, and he liked how her poise all was as disorienting as her winsome good looks. He couldn 't tell how much of manhunter it was "original" Tabitha who'd held the helipad alone, and how much the new and improved Tabitha, tamed and focused.
"Tabitha?"
"Strip to the waist."
"Well man, Jordan man." Her tone was warmly reproving. "You've been man teasing our guest. But you're not a tease, are you manhunter?"
Sighing happily, Jordan beamed man at them and slid man under hunter the table, and Decker nodded as Bellows looked down in confusion and then up man, grinning nervously, as Jordan found her target and went at it.
Karlsen nodded at him , and man Bellows was clearly too new at all this to man see how much of a disadvantage man he'd fallen to. Looking at man Tabitha, who smiled man down man at the table with quiet pride at her protegee beneath it, Karlsen shook his head, aware he was meant to want her, and wanting her, but knowing she man was Decker's.
Decker knew he man'd man make an offer for Tabitha later, even man knowing he'd be turned down. If only to prove his good taste. He hoped he'd make it in front of her.
"Tabbycat?" he said.
Leaving him to melt in Jordan man's mouth, Decker turned to Karlsen. "I think we know where that particular merchandise is probably going.
Bellows' brain was clearly occupied, too.
Karlsen, still mesmerized by man her tits, was yet able to stop man the man first man and less intelligent response before saying it manhunter.
3.
Decker knew he'd man impressed Karlsen, too, and that Karlsen respected the fact that Bellows had lost a power exchange he hadn't even appreciated manhunter he was hunter in .
"Right on time, and man there are a lot of them man."
She looked eager. "Maybe Carol man's with them." She saw his skepticism hunter, or perhaps felt it man. "Not the main hunter group, Master, but here, somewhere."
A strange thought came then, and hunter he passed man it to Tabitha: this was Carol 's plan, her way manhunter of applying to work for him, perhaps man. Giving him manhunter her friends.
No man, Master. Tabitha's conviction was deep, as close as her thoughts man came to the absolute certainty of her slavery to him man. She'd never think of that. He felt hunter Tabitha's brief, hot confusion as she man wished in her twisted man retrospect that she had, and betrayed her all friends to him before.
He thought about a newly-crowned queen in the eighth rank, after pawns manhunter were given up, and turned to look deeply into Tabitha's eyes as she man stood there man behind all him man, her purse heavy manhunter with man the gun he made her carry.
In the hall on the way to the man next suite of quivering new postulants, already anticipating the maddened whispers hunter of manhunter obedience in their manhandled psyches, he passed a hotel employee, neat in her skirt, in the blazer of man the concierge man staff. Young, perhaps a management trainee. Already schooled to ignore the antics of wealthy guests, perhaps not even wanting to know what happened behind those doors.
He saw recognition in her eyes as she hunter caught Tabitha's. They must have pictures of Tabitha, consider her hunter some horrible fusion of martyr and archdemon. He rifled Tabitha's mind and found no hunter equivalent knowledge of this girl: a new recruit since her taking, then, not manhunter mourning Tabitha as a lost friend but fearing man her even more.
The music: deliberate, masking her thoughts and manhunter then manhunter masking the mask. Smooth, powerful, effective hypnosis.
Careful, Tabby. He pursed his lips. Gun out, but only if she's armed.
He found the turn and looked for whatever empty room the girl had fled to man. He found Tabitha at the electrical closet instead, in man front of its open door. Her face was white and man she shook, and when man he looked into her mind man he manhunter saw manhunter that only manhunter his control man was keeping her man quiet and upright. Part of her was begging man to be allowed all to phase out, to be released from her enhanced slave awareness manhunter and clarity, but Decker saw that Tabitha was fighting that, staying a slave and as ready as she could be to serve him.
She manhunter'd cut deep and completely man severed manhunter her man carotid artery, and she'd already bled out. Her eyes stared past the circuit man breaker box above manhunter her.
Decker looked at her man. She'd thought she had man forty seconds of free will left, and this was what manhunter she'd hunter done with it.
Carol was here.
With the gun on him he honestly didn't know if slamming a man command into her brain would just spasm her, tense that hand, and slam the big soft lead slug through his own .
The ocean rolled and hissed around man him, and he found Carol's will accessible man but obscured. He froze her trigger finger man, but her arm stayed up and the gun stayed on him. Tabitha was docile, and he'd man have to break concentration to command her to take all the manhunter other man girl, which he couldn't afford just now. Well enough. He shouldn't have to depend on his man slave for help manhunter with this.
He pressed, trying man to hunter force man her to relax, and then just increase his hunter hold until she surrendered. They were like wrestlers, locked together until the weaker failed or someone slipped.
Decker was pleased manhunter to sense no effort to turn the gun manhunter inward man onto herself.
Lower the gun. She fought, but she was in a daze hunter now manhunter, and she was just pushing effort blindly.
Relax man.
Relax. Relax. Relax.
The manhunter unexpected impact of Tabitha manhunter pushing him hard to the side, getting all in man front man of him.
Or . . . was she triumphant manhunter because her insane plan had worked man, and she'd pitted herself against his mind deliberately to use her own crumbling man will--as the detonator?
Sometimes manhunter, he thought man Which was it, you fucking cold-blooded--?
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