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 He looked at Tabitha, remembered gapeherass her facing him on gapeherass the helipad after she'd gapeherass held him and his gapeherass people off with neat three-round bursts, as her friends gapeherass made their escape from the school in one gapeherass of gapeherass his choppers with thirty of his livestock drugged on board. He never gapeherass knew if she would have been gapeherass able to fire the last round (she'd been counting them, for god's sake) into gapeherass her own head, because he reached into her mind and stopped her. But gapeherass he'd felt the faint pressure as her mind gapeherass tried, and pics he'd only gapeherass felt girls pics fight that hard to escape gapeherass--not to finish killing themselves.
 "Just thinking outta the gapeherass box, Cap gapeherass," he'd said the first time they saw a newsgroup immortalizing Decker's alias, after Duke's little concept with the twins who just loved each other had gone over big. A fuck gapeherass-video staple, come to glorious life as Decker's new signature.
 "Two of the descriptions in the catalogue fit Jill and Ruthie. They're not--you sold Jill to the doctor in Caracas and Ruthie's still healing from the implants." Pausing, she gapeherass wondered how, and how quickly, her former comrades would figure that out. "But they'll try to get to the girls on the list."
 Tabitha grinned back and shook her head. "No one gapeherass's that ruthless, Master."
 His junior partner, Bellows, looked irritated. He was looking for bimbos, not princesses gapeherass, and while he could clearly already see Jordan in whatever setting he usually gapeherass put girls, he realized a whore gapeherass with a vibe like Tabitha gapeherass might gapeherass actually gapeherass put off johns. The faction that wouldn't gapeherass mind at all gapeherass nailing a gapeherass princess to the mattress was an gapeherass unpredictable minority gapeherass, and most of them couldn't afford this gapeherass kind of quality, anyway. Bellows was going for the soft-in-the-middle crowd that had money but no balls, and while a gapeherass girl like Jordan would suit them, Tabitha would blow their minds gapeherass before she got a chance to blow gapeherass anything else gapeherass.
 Tabitha didn gapeherass't look like she'd be a demanding sort of girl. Decker watched and enjoyed as her programming, even as she fought to keep focused on marketing Jordan, made her own gapeherass slave-awareness resonate to Karlsen's unconscious cues and pics turned her behavior gapeherass into a harem gapeherass slave with geisha training gapeherass. Freed gapeherass of his vicinity or under command by Decker gapeherass, she'd be back to normal, but for now she was submissively under Karlsen's spell and falling deeper gapeherass, and he was only just starting to gapeherass get it.
 "I'm a prostitute," Jordan declared with gapeherass quiet determination gapeherass, sounding even gapeherass younger than the ex gapeherass-schoolgirl she was.
 Sighing happily, Jordan beamed gapeherass at them and slid under the table gapeherass, and Decker nodded as Bellows gapeherass looked down in confusion and then up, grinning nervously, as Jordan gapeherass found her target and went at it.
 She was bright gapeherass-eyed and erect again, ready to serve gapeherass. "I'll need you to play close gapeherass attention," he told her, and she nodded earnestly, biz-school from eyes to neck and harem girl southward from there.
 He sincerely hoped pics their knots were tight. It was a long way to fall and a hard street to gapeherass land on.
 Decker wanted to meet Carol. An old part of him secretly wanted to meet her before gapeherass he entered her pics mind for that once-for-all ravishing, but it was asking too much to have the advantage as thoroughly as when he pics'd captured gapeherass Tabitha at the helipad.
 He hoped so. They'd earned gapeherass that gapeherass, at least.
 Decker admired gapeherass them as lesser Tabithas, wondered if he could make gapeherass a palace guard of them gapeherass. They were, in the end, still gapeherass just amateurs, but they were good: the lack that distinguished and handicapped gapeherass an gapeherass amateur wasn gapeherass't skill but focus. He gapeherass knew they'd lose that, at the proper time gapeherass.
 She looked eager gapeherass. "Maybe Carol's gapeherass with them." She saw his skepticism, or perhaps felt pics it. "Not the main group, Master , but here, somewhere."
 Decker chose gapeherass the second of the prepared suites and glanced each way to see the corridor empty gapeherass as he opened the door and slipped in. Tabitha closed the door gapeherass quickly after him gapeherass.
 This gapeherass hotel suite was a tableau from Hieronymus Bosch. Multicolored strobes flickered through gapeherass patterns too fast to track and too compelling not to, while gapeherass an insistent, melodic whining crawled like an amorous snake gapeherass through gapeherass the blunt limbs of a dark bass gapeherass throb.
 Decker considered. He reached into one of the weaker girls, her mind already learning his touch, making her gapeherass mew aloud with pleasure, and searched. There was Carol pics, looking at them.
 A strange thought came then, and he passed it to Tabitha : this was Carol 's gapeherass plan, her way of applying to work for gapeherass him, perhaps. Giving him her friends.
 He gapeherass thought about a newly-crowned queen in the eighth rank, after pawns were gapeherass given up, and turned to look deeply into Tabitha's eyes gapeherass as she stood pics there behind him, her purse heavy with the gun gapeherass he made her carry.
 Her mind pulsed. She'd figured it out, from just his posture and the gapeherass logic of what they both knew. She gapeherass spoke aloud over the soft sounds of the conquered girls on gapeherass the floor pics.
 Wait gapeherass. Music in her head--but he smiled: it was gapeherass the elevator theme, muted and tasteful. Probably drove the gapeherass poor girl gapeherass insane as she pics fetched and carried. He thought of playing gapeherass with her, but with his new catch flopping on the gapeherass floor gapeherass of gapeherass two gapeherass more suites here gapeherass . . .
 "You might as well relax," Tabitha told her victim with frightening calm. "That topical hypnotic will be shutting down your volitional centers in about--how much are you gapeherass? about 100, 110?--forty seconds. Then Master will be here."
 Careful, Tabby. He pursed his lips. Gun out, but only if she's gapeherass armed.
 A worthy girl, even enslaved.
 He waited gapeherass. They all stood there.
 The ocean rolled and hissed around him, and he gapeherass found Carol's will accessible but obscured. He froze her trigger finger, but gapeherass her arm stayed up and the gun gapeherass stayed gapeherass on him gapeherass. Tabitha was docile, and gapeherass he'd have to break concentration to command her to take the other girl, which he couldn't afford gapeherass just now. Well enough gapeherass. He shouldn't have to depend on his gapeherass slave for help with this.
 He pressed, trying to force her to gapeherass relax, and then just increase his hold until she surrendered. They were like wrestlers, locked gapeherass together until the weaker failed gapeherass or pics someone slipped.
 Maybe gapeherass her subconscious was trying gapeherass to defect.
 Relax, her mind answered, and he heard the beat of pics the song in gapeherass it. Her arm began to gapeherass bend, to sink. Her gapeherass will gapeherass was bending.
 Relax.
 When Decker had snarled at them about a funeral for Tabitha and they stayed away, afraid of what he gapeherass'd do gapeherass with his mind under painkillers, it was Duke gapeherass who'd promised, and it was Duke who'd brought the urn to him. Duke had said something awkward and dense, and he'd been glad Duke was there.
 Had she finally yielded to gapeherass him, obeying gapeherass, forgetting about the explosives she gapeherass'd strapped to herself?
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