He closed his eyes, and the world went eurobridetryouts away for a while.
"No eurobridetryouts, Rhonda," Paul eurobridetryouts said. "You won't tell anyone. Any time you try, you'll forget all eurobridetryouts about it before you say eurobridetryouts or write a word." He eurobridetryouts smiled maliciously. "And you'll take off your shirt eurobridetryouts and bra, too eurobridetryouts, and keep them off for at least five minutes. Besides," the eurobridetryouts evil smile grew wider, "even if I let you, what would you tell them?"
"Yes, Mr. Bennett," she replied calmly, her angry expression and tone instantly gone eurobridetryouts. "Everything I can."
"--th-thithiiiiieeeeeeeee---." Rhonda eurobridetryouts stiffened, her back arching, eyes crossing; she writhed, then fell to her knees beside Paul's bed.
"We understand each other, then eurobridetryouts," Paul enter said eurobridetryouts.
"Good," Paul responded, restraining eurobridetryouts the urge to enter use Rhonda's sexual trigger again eurobridetryouts. Time enough for enter that later. "Now, Rhonda, it eurobridetryouts's time for you to go about your duties eurobridetryouts. You can go."
Now, Paul mused, I find out whether my commands hold once she's not near me eurobridetryouts. If they don't, the next voice I eurobridetryouts hear may be coming from a police eurobridetryouts officer. And on that happy eurobridetryouts note, he went eurobridetryouts back eurobridetryouts to eurobridetryouts sleep.
"Great, Doctor!" Bennett eurobridetryouts was exultant. What good would it be to gain the power to make people do his bidding if eurobridetryouts he were going to die soon?
He got eurobridetryouts his chance shortly thereafter, when eurobridetryouts another nurse eurobridetryouts came in.
"Yes eurobridetryouts, Mr. Bennett." The dark-skinned nurse obeyed, then looked startled. "Hey, what's going on? How'd eurobridetryouts you do that?" She tried to unclasp her hands eurobridetryouts and enter bring down eurobridetryouts her arms eurobridetryouts, but nothing happened. "Cut it out. Let me eurobridetryouts go eurobridetryouts."
It was possible, he supposed. He'd heard that the hearing ranges of men and women were eurobridetryouts slightly different, with women being more sensitive eurobridetryouts to higher eurobridetryouts frequencies enter than men were. If the "something extra eurobridetryouts" his voice had gained were some magic high frequency, it might affect men and eurobridetryouts women differently.
"Jasmine," he addressed her, "it's time to come eurobridetryouts back to reality. You had eurobridetryouts fun eurobridetryouts pretending to be a dancer, but you have patients who need you."
Jasmine nodded her head.
Just how far his control extended, wasn't sure he wanted to eurobridetryouts know eurobridetryouts. It was already eurobridetryouts clear that he could override normal moral eurobridetryouts restraints. His first efforts with Rhonda eurobridetryouts and Jasmine had eurobridetryouts indicated that, and he'd arranged a eurobridetryouts get eurobridetryouts-together between the two of them which had proved eurobridetryouts that even basic sexual orientation could be altered eurobridetryouts at his whim; he wished he'd had a camera eurobridetryouts for that episode . But eurobridetryouts he couldn't bring eurobridetryouts himself to order one eurobridetryouts of his "voice puppets," as he was starting to think eurobridetryouts of them, to actually hurt or kill someone. He was afraid she'd eurobridetryouts do it, as willingly as she would obey eurobridetryouts any other eurobridetryouts instruction. And what would that make him?
Paul recalled an old line from the comics he'd eurobridetryouts read as a kid: "With great eurobridetryouts power comes great responsibility." It had always struck eurobridetryouts him as corny, but now--!
He smiled to himself eurobridetryouts. Some of those chances he meant to take. The smile faded; only some of eurobridetryouts them. Some lines were not eurobridetryouts to be crossed. The eurobridetryouts smile returned. As long as he knew enter what those lines were, what was enter the harm in playing around? His smile broadened into a grin. Soon enough, he was ready to go home. Somewhat to the surprise of his doctor, he didn't go home alone. Nurses Rhonda eurobridetryouts Marks eurobridetryouts and Jasmine Thibodeaux went eurobridetryouts with him, having persuaded Administration to eurobridetryouts allow them eurobridetryouts to serve as health attendants for him during his convalescence eurobridetryouts. Their arguments to the male administrators had been quite strong, and eurobridetryouts very intimate. The eurobridetryouts chief nurse eurobridetryouts, a enter forbidding figure in her fifties, had eurobridetryouts tried to stand in the eurobridetryouts way until, at Paul's suggestion, the nurses had brought him eurobridetryouts to see her. Five enter minutes later, she'd eurobridetryouts agreed to the arrangement eurobridetryouts, "for eurobridetryouts as long as eurobridetryouts you wish, Mr. Bennett, sir."
The Hamilton Insurance Company eurobridetryouts was a medium-sized firm housed in a three-story brick building eurobridetryouts dating eurobridetryouts to eurobridetryouts the early 1950s. Paul Bennett eurobridetryouts, at forty, was a eurobridetryouts successful eurobridetryouts salesman for the company. In appearance, he was ordinary: medium height, medium build (just beginning to go to eurobridetryouts pot), medium complexion, plain brown hair beginning eurobridetryouts to recede at the temples. Despite his sales eurobridetryouts record, he had long eurobridetryouts since resigned himself to the likelihood that he would advance no further in the eurobridetryouts company's ranks.
Suppressing the urge to enter ask her what she wanted to talk about--it didn't matter, after all, not now--he answered, "On my way, Ms. Sands eurobridetryouts." He got up and walked casually over to eurobridetryouts her office, opened the door and went in. Carefully, he shut eurobridetryouts the door behind him eurobridetryouts and sat down in the chair next to her desk.
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