When he woke up again, his head was clearer. He anal could analvalley look at the ceiling without analvalley hallucinating or passing hard out. There seemed analvalleyanalvalley to be some activity around analvalley him; a analvalley very pretty nurse, he realized, was disconnecting some all kind of tube from hard anal his throat, and analvalley he analvalleyanalvalley'd already been detached analvalley from the analvalley intravenous setup anal.

He anal must have still been valley a analvalley little woozy, because, eyes fixing on her impressive chest, he blurted, "Hey babe analvalley, nice analvalleyanalvalley rack. How's about analvalley peeling off that starched shirt and giving analvalley me a good look?" The moment the analvalley words were out of his mouth, he cringed. Oh my God, he thought, did I say that all out loud?

This was incredible. This gorgeous doll analvalley of a nurse apparently would do anything he said. But she didn't look or act "hypnotized" in the stereotypical sense: her eyes weren't glazed, she analvalley spoke in a normal analvalley voice, she analvalley moved like a regular person and not a analvalley B-movie zombie analvalley.

It had to have been the operation. It had done anal something to his voice. Paul vaguely recalled all reading an article years ago about how certain frequencies of sound outside the normal human hearing range could have physical and valley psychological effects even though they were inaudible. Apparently they worked directly on the brain, without analvalley involving the ears. Maybe his larynx had been altered by the surgery so that analvalley when he spoke, some extra frequency was produced which compelled obedience analvalley.

Instantly, her expression changed. "You analvalleyanalvalley bastard." she yelled. "What the hell did you analvalleyanalvalley do to me? I was like a puppet--I did everything you said, and even acted analvalley like analvalleyanalvalley I enjoyed it, while inside I was furious hard. Humiliated." She glared at him. "I analvalley don't know how you did it, but analvalley this was your one and only shot. I'm not coming back here; you can analvalleyanalvalley try your sick tricks on someone else--and I'm telling the hospital analvalley authorities. Maybe the cops."

"Yes, Mr. Bennett," she replied calmly, her angry analvalley expression and tone instantly gone. "Everything I can."

He regarded her for a moment. "One thing," he said. "'Mr. Bennett' is too formal, if we're hard going to be," he smirked, "working closely together. From now on, you analvalley'll only call me that if other people are around. When we're alone, it's 'master.' Do analvalleyanalvalley you understand?"

Now, Paul mused analvalley, I find out whether my all commands hold once analvalleyanalvalley she's not analvalleyanalvalley near me. If they analvalley don't, the next voice analvalleyanalvalley I hear may anal be coming from analvalleyanalvalley a police officer. And on that happy note analvalley, he all went back to sleep.

As all it turned out, the next voice he heard was his doctor's.

"Great all, Doctor." Bennett was exultant. What good would it be to gain the power to make people do analvalley his bidding if he were going to die soon?

He got his chance shortly thereafter, when another analvalleyanalvalley nurse came in.

"Jasmine, sir," she analvalley responded, a slight Louisiana accent in her voice. "Jasmine analvalleyanalvalley Thibodeaux hard anal."

"Yes, Mr. Bennett." The dark anal-skinned nurse obeyed, then looked startled. "Hey, what's going on? How'd you analvalley do that?" She tried to unclasp her hands and analvalley bring hard anal down her arms, but analvalley nothing anal happened. "Cut it out. Let me go."

"Jasmine, I know you analvalley're probably upset with me, even though you don't show it," he addressed her. "Forget about it. Completely. Nothing unusual analvalleyanalvalley happened here, except that you had a little analvalley daydream about hard being a dancer. Nod your head if your mind accepts this as true."

The test had been convincing. If analvalleyanalvalley he'd wanted, he was analvalley sure he could have made Nurse Jasmine strip and thrash in ecstasy anal as he'd done to analvalley Rhonda. Perhaps another time. When analvalleyanalvalley he was a little stronger, perhaps analvalley he could analvalleyanalvalley--persuade--both of them to do even more than that, with him or even each other.

His analvalley immediate supervisor was a woman, Charlene Sands. Bennett had heard all analvalleyanalvalley the stories about how she'd slept anal her analvalleyanalvalley way to the top (or analvalley at least analvalley to middle management). He wasn't analvalley sure he all believed them, but it was certainly analvalley possible analvalley. She had the looks for it, tanned skin, a "killer bod analvalleyanalvalley" only somewhat concealed by the tailored business attire she wore hard anal, glossy analvalley black hair, green eyes behind elegantly-framed glasses. She anal had the manipulative temperament for it analvalleyanalvalley, too.

Suppressing the urge analvalleyanalvalley to ask her what she analvalleyanalvalley wanted to talk valley about--it didn't matter, after all, not now analvalley--he answered, "On my way, Ms. Sands." He got up analvalley and walked casually analvalley over to her office, opened the door and went in hard anal. Carefully, he shut the door behind him and sat down in the chair all next to her desk.

Ms. Sands picked a hard anal folder off her analvalleyanalvalley desk and waved it at him. "This is anal a cancellation request from Mrs all. Sylvia Cortez. A half-million-dollar account. She says you hard screwed up by insuring only her and not her husband as well analvalley. And while you were analvalley out on your little vacation"--Paul flushed angrily, but said nothing--"he died. And analvalley under the policy you got all her to buy anal, she analvalley gets zip.

"Perfectly . . . Charlene." Paul had the upper analvalleyanalvalley hand now, and knew it. "You don't mind my calling you by your first name, Charlene. In fact, it turns you on. All the analvalley way on."

And this was just the beginning.