Rick Logan seethed as he fidgeted on the couch. He was fed up with waiting. Every time he went out with Candace, she would pull this little game with him. She would greet him at the door with a bright smile, and usher him into her living room. Then she would take on an apologetic expression and explain that she hadn't had time to get ready yet, and ask if he would mind waiting a few minutes.

Rick always assented. At first, he'd done this because he was a very patient person, and it didn't matter to him if they were a few minutes late. But after being kept waiting for half an hour for each of their first five dates, he'd begun to get irritated.

So on the sixth date, he'd deliberately shown up fifteen minutes late, in order to give her some extra time to prepare. He'd figured it was the easiest possible solution to the problem. There was no point in haranguing Candace about her tardiness when he could just as easily adjust his own schedule.

Unfortunately, the plan had backfired. When he'd arrived late at her apartment, she'd met him at the door with an angry glare. She'd chastised him for being late, complaining that she'd been ready right on time, that he was a jerk for being late, and that she'd appreciate it if he would try to be a bit more timely in the future.

He should've argued with her, and had it out right then and there. He should've pointed out that _she_ was the one who'd kept him waiting for the first five dates, and that he'd only been trying to solve the problem in a manner that would involve the least inconvenience for both of them.

But he hadn't. He'd been afraid that starting an argument might damage or destroy their budding relationship. He remembered seeing a calculating glint in her eye, as though she'd been testing him, to see whether he'd rebel or not. And he hadn't. He'd meekly agreed that it was his fault, and that he'd try to be on time more often.

And that, Rick reflected, was his problem. He was never good at confrontations. In any dispute, he would always take the easy way out. That was probably why he'd been stuck in the same dead-end job for six years, working in the mailroom of a large medical-supply company. No promotion, no pay raise. Nothing. And that pretty much summed up his life.

Candace Cunningham turned her head and looked at the clock next to the bed, her soft brown hair twisting across the pillow as she did so. Twenty-five minutes. She decided that she'd kept Rick waiting long enough. With a grunt of exertion, she lifted herself off the bed.

She looked at herself in the mirror as she brushed her hair. She kept it simple, brushing it straight down her back. It was important to keep it neat and simple, so that Rick didn't get an inflated notion of how important he was to her. Men were nice enough as diversions, but they were hardly one of the necessities of life.

Candace pondered her relationship with Rick as she looked through her wardrobe for something to wear. It was so much trouble to find clothes for a woman that weren't degrading. After all, the vast majority of clothes were designed by men who could only view a woman as a sex object. Shoes that sacrificed stability and comfort for the sake of putting a curve in the back of the leg, skirts that were designed to bring about thoughts of sex in men, blouses that practically put breasts on display... it was disgraceful. She settled on a pair of brown slacks, a flowery button- down shirt and a pair of brown loafers. Stylish, yet comfortable. She was ready for the evening. She didn't own any makeup or jewelry; these, too, were male inventions designed with the debasement of woman in mind.

Rick stood as Candace entered the living room, sighing in wonder as he did every time he saw her face. She was quite beautiful. Wide brown eyes gazed out under thick eyebrows. High cheekbones framed an aqualine nose, and a wide mouth smiled beneath it. A thick mane of chestnut brown hair fell down her back, framing her face.

Though the slacks and shirt hid it, Rick knew her body to be quite attractive. Years of vegetarian eating had given her a thin, though not quite willowy figure. Her breasts were small but quite pert, and her legs and ass thin, but shapely.

For the hundredth time, Rick looked at her, thinking that if only she would put some effort into it, she could be dynamite. All she'd need was the right clothes, a little makeup, and some jewelry and she could be sexy as all hell. But he knew what she thought on these subjects, and didn't want to get an earful, so he let it lie.

"You look fabulous."

"Thanks," she replied. "Let's go."

Rick treated her to a nice dinner at a charming Italian restaurant. They talked about the usual things; the weather, politics, movies, her job. Candace was an editor for Woman's Work, a prominent and rather militant feminist magazine.

Rick had read a few issues of the magazine at her urging, and was rather distuurbed by its contents. Rick fully supported most of the ideals of the women's movement, but he thought Woman's Work was far too radical. He hadn't said as much to Candace, though. Not yet.

Although the content of their conversation was not unusual, Rick detected a certain weariness in Candace's manner. But their dinner ended without incident, and Rick drove her home as usual.

It was with a sense of relief that Candace closed the door behind her after Rick dropped her off. Thank god that was over!

When she'd first started going out with Rick, they'd had a good time. She'd been amused by his quick mind and ready wit. And he was pretty handsome, too. Candace had had high hopes at the beginning that Rick would turn out to be different from other men. But as the weeks and months wore on, it'd become obvious that that wasn't the case.

He'd begun to pay increasing amounts of attention to her body. She'd caught a number of sidelong glances at her breasts and ass. It was so frustrating! Try to have a decent, equal- status relationship with a man, and you always wound up being viewed as a sex object.

She had to admit to herself, though, that she enjoyed the attention. It was fun to play with mens' minds, get them aroused and watch them boil in frustration. Served them right, for all they'd done to keep her gender in the dirt.

And it had been fun to do it to Rick, once she'd discovered that he was just an ordinary mind-in-the-pants sleazeball like all the rest. She'd occasionally arrange things so that her breast would press againt his arm, or her hand would innocently brush his crotch. Sometimes she could see him getting hard through his pants. She enjoyed the control she had over him.

But ultimately, it was getting stale, and even dangerous. Rick was starting to get bolder. Several times he'd tried to kiss her, and she'd had to make up some clever ruse on the spot to avoid it. She knew what men were capable of - rape, or worse - and she didn't want to risk provoking the rapist in Rick.

So it was time to get someone new. Tomorrow, she decided, she'd dump him. They already had dinner plans, and she could break it to him gently. Tomorrow.

Rick went to work the next day feeling more depressed than ever about his relationship with Candace.

"Yo, Rick!" Rick looked up in the direction the voice had come from just in time to see a small package sailing toward him through the air. He caught it deftly. "That needs to go up to Briggs, pronto!" The voice belonged to Harvey Sheldon, the mail room chief. "It's several hours late, and he's been calling me every fifteen minutes since six this morning."

"On my way," Rick responded without enthusiasm, heading for the elevator. Damon Briggs, vice-president for marketing, was the primary reason Rick had been stuck in this dead-end job for so long. Three times Rick had applied for open positions in marketing, and three times Briggs had turned him down, despite the fact that he had clearly been the best-qualified candidate all three times.

Rick punched the elevator button for the marketing floor, visualizing Briggs's slack-jowled, bulldog face. "The problem with you, Rick," said Briggs's voice, echoing in his head, "is that you just don't have the drive. Sure, you look good on paper, but you just don't have that special something it takes to make it in the corporate world. Probably never in your life are you gonna grab the bull by the balls, Rick. I really don't think you belong here."

And of course, he'd just sat there and taken it, as he'd taken so many other things in his life. A stronger person, Rick thought, would have stood up to Briggs, demanded a chance to prove himself. But he'd just sat there and listened to Briggs drive him into the ground.

The elevator pinged as it reached the 25th floor, where the marketing department was located. Rick stepped out and strode through the glass doors into the marketing lobby.

"Morning, Rick," said Jennifer Cipriani, Briggs's secretary. Jennifer was a pudgy Mediterranean woman who looked to be about thirty. Her face was rather pretty, with strong classical features, but the fact that she was about thirty pounds overweight kept her from being attractive, in Rick's view.

Unfortunately, he'd had to brush off a number of passes she'd made at him. In spite of this, though, they'd become friends, and shared between them a certain wry humor regarding Briggs.

The standard half-eaten bar of chocolate lay in its wrapper on her desk. Jennifer nibbled absentmindedly at it as she scribbled Briggs's signature on a sheaf of papers. "What can I do for you?" she asked, looking up and smiling at Rick.

"Morning, Jen. Package for Mr. Briggs."

"Oooh, he's been waiting for that all morning. Better take it in. He's alone right now." Jennifer spoke into the intercom. "Rick's here with that packace, Mr. Briggs."

"Thanks, Jen," Rick said, walking past her desk to the big oak doors. A large gold-finished plate announced the entrance to "The Office of Damon Briggs, Vice-President of Marketing." Rick pushed the doors open and strode in.

The corpusculent form of Damon Briggs greeted him from behind the desk. "Rick! Good to see you again!" he exclaimed without much sincerity. "Let's have it." A pudgy hand reached for the package. Rick passed it over to him. "Thanks, Rick," Briggs said, eagerly tearing the package open.

Rick turned and left, waving goodbye to Jennifer as he headed to the elevator. He'd almost made it when Briggs's yell of anguish hit him from behind.

"No! Dammit, dammit, dammit!"

Rick turned just in time to see Briggs storm out of the office, the opened package in one hand. "The stupid bastards screwed up again! Jennifer, get on the phone to Dexalco and tell them we wanted tetracamine, not tetracaTHALamine. Make sure whichever moron you speak to understands the difference between four syllables and five. Christ."

Briggs's jaw worked furiously as he strode over to Rick and thrust the package into his hands. "Take this down to pharmaceutical disposal, Rick, and get rid of it."

Rick accepted the package and watched as Briggs strode angrily back to his office. Jennifer, already dialing the phone, looked ruefully at him. "It's a great day already, Rick!" she said.

"Good luck with Briggs," Rick replied, and headed for the elevator. Curiously, he examined the contents of the package.

There were six small vials of liquid and several sheets of paper. Rick glanced over the top sheet as he waited for the elevator.

Beneath the letterhead of Dexalco Pharmaceuticals was a short description of the drug.

TETRACATHALAMINE: Strong hypnotic drug. Dosage of 5 drops standard solution will put a 125-pound subject into a deeply suggestible mental state in approximately thirty minutes. Standard hypnotic techniques may then be used. Required dosage varies with weight. No known...

Rick was interrupted by the chime of the arriving elevator. He stuffed the paper back into the box as a gray-haired executive walked past him out of the elevator. He could get into big trouble for reading mail.

Rick stepped into the elevator and pressed the button for the third floor, where the company's pharmaceutical disposal unit was located. Federal law required the disposal of unused narcotics according to a complex set of safety guidelines.

The elevator doors closed and the car descended. Rick pondered what he'd read, an idea slowly creeping into his mind. Could he... make use of the drug? He could drug Candace, hypnotize her to be more friendly toward him, to...

No, he couldn't do that. The thought of forcing a woman to have sex with him was revolting. Even a hypnotized sexual partner was still, in reality, an unwilling one.

Besides, he had to take the drug to the disposal unit. These things were tracked carefully, and if the package wasn't handed over to the disposal technicians, it would eventually be traced to him, and he'd be in trouble. The package had to go to disposal. And that was that. But what if...

Rick looked in the box again. Six vials of liquid. What if there were only five when it got to the dispossal techs? Would they notice? Maybe. He wasn't sure how thoroughly they checked these things.

But if they did notice, how likely would they be to track it down? Probably not very likely, he guessed. After all, they dealt with several thousand bottles and packages every day. What would one missing vial count for among all that?

But could he possibly bring himself to do this sort of thing? It was immoral to hypnotize people for your own gain. Wasn't it? Unbidden, Briggs's face appeared in Rick's mind. "You're probably never gonna grab the bull by the balls, Rick."

Rick snatched one of the vials out of the package and thrust it into his pocket just as the elevator doors opened. Nonchalantly, he strode to the disposal desk, placing the package on the counter. "Package from Briggs," he informed the technician behind the desk, fighting to keep the tremor from his voice.

The tech took it and made a cursory examination of the contents. "Thanks. Here's your receipt."

Rick took the receipt and hurried to the elevator before his nervousness could show. Flush with success, he reached into his pocket and fingered the vial.

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When he got back to the mailroom, Rick found himself in the middle of a crisis. Three regular mailbags from the Los Angeles office had run into unexpected delays and had all arrived while Rick was running the errand for Briggs. It took the rest of the day for the mailroom staff to get all the backed-up mail delivered. Consequently, Rick forgot about the vial.

He arrived at Candace's aparment promptly at 7:00 that evening, right on time for their dinner date. Half an hour later, they left and went to a vegetarian restaurant that Candace liked. Rick hated vegetarian food, but it was all she would eat. This meant that most of the time, he had to eat it as well. Occasionally, they would go to a normal restaurant, where she would get a salad or something non-meaty. At those places, he occasionally got a meat dish, but she made her disapproval evident whenever he did this.

During their dinner conversation, Rick detected the same weariness in Candace's manner he'd seen last night. But it was stronger tonight. She seemed to be a bit nervous about something. After finishing the meal, they ordered after-dinner drinks. Candace excused herself to go to the restroom.

Rick took the opportunity to ponder the situation. What had her so worked up? It was as though she had something really big she needed to get off her chest. Something...

Of course! She was going to dump him! She was trying to find the right moment to tell him. He felt a surge of anger wash over him. Dammit, they'd been dating for months, he'd paid for every meal, and he hadn't gotten so much as a kiss from her. Why had she strung him along for so long? He leaned back, thrusting his hands into his pockets...

...and his fingers burshed against the glass vial. He started, remembering it for the first time since getting out of the elevator. Slowly, carefully, he pulled it out of his pocket and held it up to the light. Inside, the clear liquid sloshed around.

Rick gazed at the vial. It wasn't right to do this to someone, but... dammit, she'd been such a bitch. He could see it now. She'd strung him along, using him as a source of free food while keeping him at arms' length emotionally and physically, teasing him all the while to keep up his interest. She had manipulated him, coldly and cynically, and it was only fair to give her a little taste in return.

Resolved, Rick unscrewed the top of the bottle, pulling out the built-in dropper. He filled the dropper and struggled to recall the writing on the sheet. Five drops. Yes, that was it. Placing the dropper over Candace's drink, he squeezed and watched the drops fall. One... two... three... four... five. Hurriedly, he screwed the cap back onto the top of the bottle and shoved it back into his pocket.

Candace reappeared a moment later and took her seat. They talked and drank as they sipped their drinks. Rick watched Candace for any sign that the drug was affecting her behavior, and found none. But the sheet had said thirty minutes, hadn't it? He thought so, but it was hard to remember.

They finished their drinks and began the drive home, continuing the incessant conversation. It was as though they were both talking more excitedly and animatedly, and with more feigned interest, because they both knew that something bad was coming up, Rick mused.

He took no notice when her participation began to drop off. She stopped offering her own ideas and opinions, and started simply agreeing to whatever he said. Gradually, her responses became monosyllabic.

Suddenly, he realized what had happened.

"Candace?" he ventured.

"Mmm. Yes?" she responded, staring ahead out the front of the car.

"How are you feeling?"

She thought for a moment. "Fine, I guess." Her face remained forward. Take it slowly, Rick told himself. Make sure it's working. "Look out the window to your right," he said.

"Okay." Her head swiveled ninety degrees to the right, and remained facing that way. She made no other move.

Rick couldn't believe it. Here was the most independent- minded woman he'd ever met, accepting his odd suggestions as though they were perfectly natural. He racked his brain to recall what he could of hypnosis.

The important thing seemed to be that the subject wouldn't respond to all suggestions, just those that seemed reasonable. So having her, say, engage in sex with him right here in the car was probably out of the question. Take it slowly, he admonished himself again. "Candace?"

"Yes?" Her voice was muffled; Rick realized she was still looking out the window.

"Face forward again." She did so immediately. "I want you to answer the questions I ask honestly and completely."

"Okay," she agreed.

"What do you think of me?"

"I thought you were a nice guy when we first met, but lately I've come to realize that you're just like all the other men."

Hmmm. This was interesting. "And what are other men like?"

"They're only interested in sex. They can only view women as sex objects. They'd probably rape any woman they could if they thought they could get away with it."

This was really unusual, Rick thought. He'd known she was very much into women's liberation, even to the point of being somewhat bitter toward men in general, but he'd had no idea she harbored such a misandronistic streak. "So... you think I would rape you if I thought I could get away with it?"

"Well, not necessarily. But after we'd been together long enough, I'm sure you'd do it eventually. That's why I'm planning to break up with you when you drop me off."

So his instincts had been on the right track, Rick thought. "What made you realize that I'm like that?"

"The way you keep looking at my body. You look at my breasts, or my butt, or my legs. I can tell you're thinking about having sex with me. It's quite demeaning."

"Have you ever had sex with a man?"

"No. I could never let a man have that sort of power over me. Besides, I can bring myself more pleasure masturbating than any man could ever give me."

"Really?"

"Yes. Men only care about themselves."

A thought crossed Rick's mind. "Have you ever had sex with another woman?"

"No."

Rick paused for a moment, considering what to do. The first priority was to preserve the relationship. If he stopped seeing Candace, no amount of drug could get what he wanted.

But, he reminded himself again, it was important to be careful in this, and take things in slow, natural steps.

How best to do this? he wondered. He didn't have the foggiest clue as to what was the best way to make a suggestion, so he decided to just try the easy way.

"Candace?"

"Yes?"

"You don't really think I'm as bad as other men," Rick said in what he hoped was a calm voice. "Sure, I'm still a man, and that carries some intrinsic meaning, but I'm actually very civilized compared to most. Isn't that right?"

Her face scrunched up in thought. "Yes, I suppose so. You're not nearly as bad as I thought."

"In fact, maybe you don't need to break off our relationship just yet. You could probably date me safely for at least another month. Don't you think so?"

"Yes... yes, that's right. I don't need to dump you just yet." She sat back, pleased at her realization.

Rick smiled a bit at her choice of words. It was funny that she should talk about dumping him when he was clearly the one in control. He decided to take one more small step tonight. "And when I look at you, like I want to have sex with you, you won't find it disgusting anymore. In fact, when you see me looking at your body, you'll get a little excited by it. Almost like you were masturbating. Not really stong, but noticeable... and pleasurable. Okay?"

She shrugged. "Okay." Rick decided to hold it there for the evening. He didn't want to press his luck. But he had to clean up after himself. What was the mumbo-jumbo that hypnotists did when they were done? "Candace, I'm going to start slowly counting down from five. You're going to feel your mind get fuzzier and more confused as I do so. When I reach one, you will have forgotten everything that's happened since I asked you how you were feeling a few minutes ago. Remember that?"

"Uh-huh."

"Good. All you'll be able to remember will be that we had a nice conversation on the way home. All right?"

"Okay."

"Here we go. Five... four... three... two... one." Candace made no movement, simply staring ahead. Carefully, Rick tried to restart the conversation. "So... have you tried that new Chinese takeout place?"

"No."

Well, Rick thought, even if he'd successfully caused her to block out the conversation, she'd still be under the influence of the drug. He continued to talk as though they were having a perfectly ordinary conversation. Gradually, her speech moved from monosyllabic responses to simple statements of agreement. Soon she was back into the swing of things, offering up her own opinions and ideas in response to Rick's. He relaxed, confident that she'd forgotten their earlier conversation.

Rick dropped her off at her apartment. She never invited him in, so there was no point in parking. "Thanks for dinner, Rick," she said sweetly.

"You're welcome," he responded, glancing at her chest. She flushed a little at that, and opened her mouth as though about to say something.

But whatever words had been about to come out froze in her mouth, and a puzzled look crossed her face. Rick did his best to look confused. "Candace?"

"Ummm... oh, nothing. Nothing," she said hurriedly. "How about dinner tomorrow?"

"Sounds good. Seven o'clock?"

"Sure. See you then." She got out of the car, closed the door, and hurried up to the building. Rick smiled, pleased with a job well done, as he drove off into the night.

Candace paused at the door to her building. Why had she done that? She'd planned the whole evening to dump Rick when he dropped her off. Why hadn't she done it? And why the hell had she been so... excited... by that glance he'd given her breasts?

Confused, she unlocked the door and hurried up the stairs to her apartment. Dammit, it had just been another one of those lustful sex-crazed male looks at her body. Those had never had any effect on her before, other than inspiring disgust at men in general. Why had that glance from Rick seemed so... different?

She entered the apartment and sat down on the couch to think. Rick seemed... different, somehow. Less of a creep. Kinder. In fact, why had she been planning to dump him in the first place?

She thought back to the reasoning she'd used earlier, when she'd made the decision to dump him. None of it seemed to make sense anymore. Well, at any rate, Rick would probably be worth having around for at least... oh, at least another month. Over the course of the next week and a half, Rick took Candace out to dinner five times, and often to a movie afterward. For the most part, her manner on these dates was unchanged. But several times Rick let her catch him looking at her breasts, ass or legs. Rick noted with pleasure the flush of excitement that rushed into her face. She would nervously look away whenever this happened. He was enjoying their time together quite a bit more, knowing that his glances got her excited.

When he was at work, however, he was a nervous wreck. He toiled at his job in dread, constantly worried that some inventory-checker somewhere would discover the missing vial of drug and trace it to him. Every time the P.A. system came on, Rick's heart leapt into his throat. The only positive effect of the whole ordeal was that his nerves drove him to work very hard at his job, earning quite a bit of admiration from his supervisor.

On his fifth date with Candace since he'd hypnotized her, Rick got his second chance. Again, it was just after the empty dinner plates had been cleared away and the after-dinner drinks served. Candace took a few sips of her drink and excused herself to go to the bathroom. Rick shot a look at her breasts as she got up, causing her once again to get flustered and hurry away.

Smiling, Rick waited until she was out of sight and pulled the bottle out of his pocket. Measuring carefully, he dispensed five drops into her drink, swirling the glass slightly in order to mix the drug thoroughly.

Candace returned in a few minutes. They finished their drinks and began the drive home. As before, Candace gradually allowed her end of the conversation to drop off into simple yes's and no's. When Rick was confident that the drug had taken effect, he decided it was time to begin.

"How are you feeling, Candace?" "Fine."

"How are your toes feeling?"

A brief shrug. "Fine."

All right, then. "So how do you feel around me?"

She sighed. "Excited. It really affects me when you look at my breasts or my legs like you want to have sex with me. I mean, I know it's the ordinary male lust, but for some reason, when you do it, it has this effect on me."

"So you enjoy it when I look at your body?"

"Yes, I do."

"You'd enjoy it even more if I looked at your body more often, then, wouldn't you?"

Color was rising in her cheeks. She smiled happily. "Oh, yes, I'd enjoy that very much."

"Well, there are a couple things you could do to make me look at you more often."

"Really? What?"

"You could wear some different clothes. Like a skirt that would let some of your legs show, or a blouse that was cut low enough to give a glimpse of your breasts."

She frowned. "No, I couldn't wear those things. They're... degrading. They'll make me a sex object."

Oops. Well, what could he do to control the damage? "But there are plenty of long, conservative skirts that don't reveal much. And blouses that just give a nice view of your upper chest without showing too much of your breasts. Plenty of women wear those. Why don't you try a couple of outfits like that next time you're at the store, and buy a few?"

"Hmmm. Well, okay. It _will_ get me more looks from you, I guess."

"Also, a little bit of lipstick might help."

"Mmmm... okay, I'll try that, too."

"Good girl. And while we're on the subject, you're going to continue to get excited whenever I look at your body. In fact, it's going to get you even more excited than it has been. Okay?"

"Okay," she agreed.

"So I must be kind of special to you, if I make you feel this way, huh?"

"Well, yes, I suppose that's true. Nobody else makes me feel like that."

"Don't you think you should show me how special I am? I mean, do something nice to let me know what I mean to you?"

"Like what?"

"When I drop you off tonight, you can kiss me. Nothing fancy, just a quick peck on the lips. I'll be surprised by it. And it'll let me know how special I am."

"All right, I'll give you a kiss. But that's all."

"Fine. And when you kiss me, you'll feel a surge of pleasure, like you do when I look at you, only stronger."

"Okay."

Rick paused for a moment, a thought percolating up through his mind. He'd accomplished all he really needed to this time, but there was one other thing he was curious to try. Just for fun... "One last thing, Candace. The way you've been getting excited by me looking at you. You're going to start feeling that way when other men look at your body. Not as much as you do for me, but you'll still feel the excitement. Got that?"

"Okay."

Satisfied with his work, Rick led her through the procedure to erase the memory of the conversation from her brain. Gradually, the drug wore off, and her conversational skills picked up again as they arrived at her place.

Candace looked at Rick as he stopped the car in front of her building. He was so... so different.

When she was around him, she felt so... wonderful. It was impossible to describe. Suddenly, some deep part of her subconscious took control of her body. She leaned over and put her lips to Rick's.

An electric thrill shot down her spine at the touch of his lips. She pulled away, startled, trying to compose herself. "Umm... uh... Thanks for dinner, Rick. We're still on for tomorrow, right?" She made a queasy smile in an attempt to hide her nerves.

"Sure, Candace," he replied, smiling broadly. "Pick you up at eight?"

"Uh... yeah, yeah. Okay, see ya!" She hurried out of the car, closing the door behind her, and trotted up to the steps. She heard the car accelerate down the street.

What was coming over her? All her life, she'd striven to be the very model of the independent female, dependent on men for nothing, least of all emotional well-being, and here she was going all goo-goo eyed over Rick! She wasn't so much bothered by the fact that she'd kissed him as by the reason she'd kissed him. Why did he have this power over her?

Confused, she strode up the stairs to her apartment.

Rick glanced back at Candace in the rear-view mirror as he drove off down the street. Perfect. She was slowly, but surely, falling in love with him.

The hypnotic drug had given him the key to a more balanced, a more equal relationship.

With a few more uses of the drug, he could guide Candace and himself in a deep, lasting love, the kind that he'd dreamed of having when he'd first met her.

But something bothered him. Was that what he really wanted, a deep, lasting, "equal" relationship?

Or was he really after something else? It wouldn't have occurred to him to question his own motives if not for that one additional suggestion he'd given to Candace.

She would get turned on by other men looking at her. Why had he done that?

Rick pondered these questions as he drove on into the night.

Candace's Education Two

Rick realized when he got home that he faced a rather critical short-term problem: his supply of the hypnotic drug was low. Looking into the tiny vial, he estimated that at most three doses of the fluid remained. He'd have to get more.

He pondered the problem as he went to bed that night. He had no way to get more himself; he was just a mail clerk. He'd have to make use of Briggs, hypnotize him and get him to order some more. But how best to go about it?

The next morning, he took the half-full vial with him to work, hoping for some excuse to go to Briggs' office. Typically, he was sent up there several times a week, but it could be days until it happened next.

Luck was on his side. A sample of a new anitibiotic had arrived for Briggs. Rick thought about volunteering to take it up, but didn't want to arouse suspicion. Harvey Sheldon, the mail room supervisor, knew that Rick hated Briggs with a passion, and would probably take note of his sudden enthusiasm to see "The Marketing Monster." So Rick remained calm and casual, and got lucky. Sheldon told him to take the package up.

Rick rode the elevator up to the Marketing Department. "Hi, Jen," he greeted the secretary. "Got a package here for Briggs."

"Oh, hi, Rick." Jennifer smiled at him. "Why don't just leave that here, and I'll give it to him, okay?"

"Uh..." Rick thought fast. "I'm afraid I can't do that. Mr Briggs has to sign for it personally."

"Oh." Jennifer frowned at the unusual request. "Well, okay, then, why don't you just take it on in, then."

"Thanks, Jen," Rick responded, relieved. He strode through the doors into Briggs's lair. "Package for you, sir."

"Mmm..." Briggs took the package from Rick's outstretched hand. "Oh, all right. Thanks, Rick."

Rick paused awkwardly before leaving. "Uh..." His eyes searched Briggs's desk, settling on an empty coffee mug. "Can I get you some more coffee, sir?"

Briggs was taken aback by the unusual offer. "Huh?"

"W-Well, sir, I... thought you might like some more coffee," Rick repeated stupidly.

Briggs thought for a moment, and shrugged. "Sure. Here you go. No cream, no sugar."

Rick took the offered mug and walked out of the office. Jennifer looked up as he came out, saw him carrying the mug, and quickly picked hers up off the desk. "Could you get me some, too, Rick?" she asked, thrusting the mug toward him with one hand, nibbling on a block of chocolate with the other.

"Sure thing, Jen," he replied, taking the mug. Rick trotted down the hall to the coffee machine and filled up the mugs, adding a touch of cream to Jennifer's. Carefully, he measured out five droplets of the fluid and dripped them into Briggs's mug. He was about to put the vial with what was left of the fluid back in his pocket when something occurred to him.

He looked down the hall to where Jennifer sat behind the desk, her overweight body crammed into an office chair. He'd always felt sorry for her, for her seeming inability to control her appetite, and her craving for chocolate. He'd been planning to use the last of the fluid on Candace, but...

If his plan worked, he'd have all of the drug he needed. And if it didn't, he would only have one more dose, and that wasn't enough to make much of a difference with Candace. So why not use it to do Jennifer a favor?

Decided, he poured half the remaining fluid, one more dose, into Jennifer's coffee. Replacing the empty vial in his pocket, he carried the coffee back up the hall.

"Here you go, Jen," he said as he passed her the mug.

"Oooh, thanks, Rick," she responded, taking the coffee and sipping it. She smiled at the taste. "You got it just right."

"Of course I did," he remarked casually, carrying the second mug into Briggs's office. "Here you go, sir. Black."

Briggs took the mug and sipped at it. "Thanks, Rick."

"Anytime, Mr. Briggs. Anytime," Rick said as he walked out the door. Briggs shot him a quizzical look in response to his casual manner. Rick ignored it.

Half an hour later, after making the regular 11:00 mail run to the fifth floor, Rick returned to Marketing to see if the drugs had taken effect. Jennifer sat at her desk, looking blankly at the papers before her, her hands resting calmly on the desktop.

"Jennifer?" Rick asked.

"Hmm. Yes?"

Rick tried to think of something to ask next, something unusual, but not so unusual as to make him look like an idiot if the drug hadn't taken effect. "So... been abducted by any UFO's recently?" he asked, mentally kicking himself afterwards.

"No," she replied calmly.

Rick took this as proof enough that she was under the drug. "You really like chocolate, don't you?" he asked nonchalantly.

"I love it."

"You eat it a lot?"

"Three bars a day. Plus some ice cream at home in the evening."

"Well, you know it's bad for you, don't you? You're overweight because you eat so much chocolate."

"Yes, I know. I try to give it up all the time, but I just can't. I become a nervous wreck. It's like I'm addicted to it."

Rick had no idea whether or not he could cure her condition, but he decided it was worth a shot.

"I think from now on, you're going to find you're not so interested in chocolate. As a matter of fact, it just tastes bad to you. You don't know why exactly, but it does. And you won't want to eat it anymore."

"As a matter of fact, you're going to find that sweets in general aren't very tasty. Understand?"

"Okay. Whatever you say."

"And you're going to start being concerned about getting in shape. You're going to join a fitness club and work out regularly three times a week. Concentrate on your chest and your legs, but make sure to get well-conditioned overall. Okay?"

"Sure."

"Good girl." Rick didn't want to leave her at her desk in a suggestible state. If some passerby found her like this, it would seem pretty weird.

"Jennifer, why don't you go to the ladies' room right now, find yourself a stall, and sit in it for fifteen minutes or so? Then you can come back to your desk. When you do, you will have forgotten all about this conversation we had, okay?" Rick hoped this would give her enough time to come down from the drug.

"Sure thing, Rick," she said, getting up and walking down the hall. He watched her, smiling. A new leaf had turned over in her life, he thought.

Rick turned and strode into Briggs's office, calm and confident. Thus he was quite startled to be greeted by Briggs's angry roar.

"What the hell are you doing walking into my office?"

Rick froze, in fear for his job and his career, transfixed by the angry, reddened face of Damon Briggs. His mind whirled.

Think, dammit, think! he told himself. Why was Briggs yelling at him? Did he not drink the coffee?

A quick glance at Briggs's desk confirmed that he had in fact drunk the coffee. What, then? Rick thought quickly through all he knew about the drug and hypnosis in general.

It occurred to him that even if Briggs was in a suggestible state, that wouldn't necessarily keep him from reacting to an unusual situation, such as a mailroom clerk barging into his office without warning. The only thing to do was to try to convince Briggs that this wasn't at all unusual.

"Ummm, well, it isn't that unusual for me to walk into your office, is it, Mr. Briggs?" he asked nervously.

Briggs's brow furrowed. "Well..." he began.

Rick cut him off, pressing the attack. "In fact, it's downright ordinary. I can walk into your office whenever I want. Right?"

Briggs thought for a moment. "Well, yes, now that you mention it, it seems perfectly normal. Yes." He nodded to himself, convinced. "Sorry for yelling at you," he said, in a tone that didn't sound very apologetic. Even in a suggestible state, Rick realized, Briggs was still an asshole.

He decided not to mess with the formalities, and used Briggs's first name. "I can call you Damon, can't I?" he asked.

"Sure, Rick."

"Damon, remember those samples of tetracathalamine that I brought in last week? The ones that got sent here by mistake?"

"Yes. Yes, I do."

"Listen to me carefully. It turns out that you actually do need some tetracathalamine. Thirty minutes after I leave this office today, you are going to have Jennifer call up Dexalco and order ten vials of it. Understand so far?"

"Yes." "Now listen carefully. When it arrives, you are going to get a fresh cup of coffee and tell Jennifer to hold all your calls. You're going to open the package, take out the first vial, and put five drops of the fluid into your coffee. Five drops. No more, no less. You will drink the coffee as quickly as possible. For the next twenty minutes, you will do nothing. When twenty minutes has elapsed, you will call the mailroom and ask to have me sent up to see you. You will tell Mr. Sheldon that the situation is urgent. Then you will sit here and do absolutely nothing until I arrive. Do you understand?"

"Yes."

"Exellent. Now, what do you think of me professionally, Damon?"

"You're a loser. You're a wimp who'll never amount to anything. You're afraid to take action."

He said all this as though he was giving Rick his opinion of the Yankees' chances at the penant this year.

"I see," Rick responded. None of this was any surprise to him. "Well, you'll find your opininon of me has changed. Now you think I'm actually a very capable worker with a bright future in your department. Don't you think so?"

Briggs pondered this, as though wondering why he hadn't realized it sooner. "Why, yes, you are."

"You're so impressed you'll do anything to get me into your deparment, won't you? In fact, you're going to have a position ready for me when you summon me in a few days, aren't you?"

"Why, yes, I most certainly am. I'm not going to let some other department snatch you up!" he said, with quite a bit of conviction.

"Someone of my talent should have an important job, isn't that right, Damon?"

"Of course!"

"Like... Assistant Director of Marketing. Right underneath you."

"Yes, yes... I'll serve Gadsen his notice immediately."

Rick smiled. James Gadsen, the current Assistant Director, was a pompus ass, second only to Briggs himself in that regard. No one would be sorry to see him go.

"But you still won't be able to get rid of Gadsen for at least a month, will you?"

"Well, no, I guess not."

"But if you wait that long, someone else might hire me."

"That's true. Hmmm..." Briggs took on a thoughtful expression.

"So you'll have to hire me immediately, and just give me a month of paid vacaion time."

Briggs brightened. "Yes, that would work."

"And I'll come in and start work when Gadsen leaves."

"Yes, you can come in then."

"I'll have a nice, large office and my own secretary."

"Of course."

"Good, good," Rick responded. "Smart choice. Now when I walk out that door, you are going to forget that this conversation ever happened. And you aren't going to answer your phone for another fifteen minutes. Got it?"

"Got it," Briggs responded cheerfully.

Rick strode out of the office without another word.

Candace strode out of the bookstore. She clutched her purchases tightly to her breast, as though hoping that the writings of several prominent radical feminists would have the power to physically deflect the admiring glances men shot her way. She caught a pair of teenage boys nudging each other as they looked in her direction, and felt the blood rush to her face.

It had never been like this before. Men had always looked at her like that, practically ever since she'd reached puberty. She knew she was attractive by any standard. But until now, it had been something she could ignore, or even use to her advantage, teasing men to get what she wanted from them.

And then, so suddenly, just a couple days ago, she'd started feeling these sudden flashes of pleasure whenever she noticed a man looking at her. It was almost like she was getting horny just from the attention.

She noticed a department store to her left. It was nothing unusual, just the same department store where she usually bought her clothes. But this time, she noticed something different.

Her eyes were drawn to a skirt in the display window. It was nothing special, just an ordinary, casual white skirt extending a foot below the mannequin's knees. Quite conservative.

Something about it entranced Candace. Unbidden, an image of herself in the skirt floated into her mind. As she walked, her calves were alternately exposed by the swishing of the skirt. Men would look her way, and... ooh, it was so exciting.

She snapped herself out of it. She couldn't possibly wear that thing, displaying her legs like some sort of floozy. It would make a mockery of all she stood for. Horny, single- minded men staring at her legs, and Rick...

Rick, oh, Rick! The looks she could get from him! She got excited just thinking about it! She had to have that skirt.

Candace strolled confidently into the store, her previous mores forgotten, and searched out the women's casual wear section. She found a friendly salesgirl there, who helped her try on several skirts and some matching blouses.

Looking at herself in the mirror, she had to admit she was quite pretty. And she didn't really mind dressing for looks. After all, if men had so much fun looking at her, wasn't it only fair that she should have a little fun, too?

After a few hours, she had four skirts and three blouses that could be combined in any number of ways. a couple of belts, and three pairs of casual leather shoes. She had struck up quite a rapport with the salesgirl, who was very helpful with her advice.

The total bill was upwards of five hundred dollars. Candace handed over her credit card, and the purchases were charged. "Well! Anything else?" the salesgirl asked buoyantly.

"Uh... yes. Could you point me to the cosmetics counter?"

Rick picked Candace up that evening at eight, and couldn't believe his eyes. She looked incredible! The dowdy old slacks and shirt were gone, replaced by a simple white cotton blouse and a blue denim skirt. The half-inch heels of her shoes clicked across the sidewalk as they walked to the car, and her skirt swayed as she walked, giving occasional glimpses of calf.

But her face was the most amazing part of her. She'd been attractive without makeup, but with a light coat of lipstick, some mascara, and the faintest trace of eyeshadow, she was positively gorgeous. He told her so.

"Thank you, Rick," she said demurely, looking away to hide her blush. She was clearly enjoying the attention he was paying her. Rick was pleased. He'd told her specifically to get the lipstick, but the rest of the makeup was her own doing. She was really starting to enjoy the attention she was getting.

They went to dinner at a Greek restaurant. Rick made a point of glancing at some part of her body every few minutes throughout the meal. Often, this would make her get flustered and forget what she was saying. Rick found hiself enjoying the game, trying to disrupt her just at the most complicated part of her sentences.

She got plenty of long looks from other men. Rick noticed many of these. Candace was less often aware of them, since her attention was focused on Rick. Occasionally, however, she would notice, and this would cause her to smile in a goofy way and forget what she was saying.

They went to a movie afterward, a corny romantic comedy. Rick got up during the last half hour to get them some soft drinks. Before returning to the theatre, he dropped what was left of the hypnotic drug into her drink. Being careful to keep Candace's drink in his right hand, and his own in his left, he went back to the theatre and sat down.

Candace thanked him, and sucked down her drink over the rest of the movie. When the movie let out, they climbed into the car to drive home. As usual, Candace gradually slipped into a trance-like state. When Rick was sure she was under the drug's effect, he started talking to her.

"Are you enjoying all the attention you're getting?"

"Oh, yes. It gets me so... excited."

"You mean aroused?"

"Yes, that's it. Aroused."

"Men looking at you?"

"Yes. Especially you."

Rick smiled. "Well, from now on, whenever you see me looking at you, you're going to wonder what it would be like to have sex with me."

"But I can't... you're a man... and men are so..." she sputtered.

"You're just going to wonder," he reassured her. "And tonight, when I drop you off, you're going to give me a kiss. Not a quick kiss, like last time, but a long, passionate kiss. You're starting to fall in love with me, and you want me to know. Got that?"

"Yes."

"And then after you go back to your apartment, you're going to go to bed, and you're going to masturbate. It's going to feel very good, and you're going to have a great orgasm. Aren't you?"

"Yes, I am." "And just before you orgasm, you're going to think of me."

"O-okay." She was having trouble with this. Rick decided to leave it at that.

After leading her through the memory-blocking exercise, Rick resumed normal conversation, and the drug wore off. Soon they were back at her apartment.

"Thanks for the evening, Rick. It was wonderful," she told him.

"You're welcome. I had fun, too," he replied.

She sat there, frozen, staring at him for a second, and then slowly closed her eyes, leaning toward him. Rick leaned toward her, and their lips met. Slowly and softly they kissed, their tongues probing, dancing, intertwining. At long last, Rick was getting a kiss from the woman of his dreams.

After an eternity, they broke apart, gazing into each other's eyes. "Thanks again, Rick," Candace breathed softly, getting out of the car and closing the door.

Rick smiled to himself as he watched her walk up the steps. Two weeks ago, she'd been on the verge of dumping him, and now, with the help of the drug, they'd just had their first kiss. Life was wonderful.

Candace stumbled into her apartment, feeling more confused than ever. How was this happening to her? This was everything she had ever fought against; dependency on a man. Why did it have to feel so good to betray her beliefs?

Half an hour later, she flopped into bed, her clitoris itching for attention. She shoved one hand under her nightshirt and began rubbing gently at the sensitive round nub between her legs. Oooh, it felt so good. Candace had first discovered how to bring herself pleasure when she was thirteen years old, and since then she'd perfected the skill.

She started slowly, gently bringing her clitoris to erection with a series of light brushes. It tickled, but it was pure pleasure. When she was fully hard, she gradually increased the speed and pressure of her strokes, climbing the long hill to orgasm. With her free hand, she caressed her breasts, rubbing the nipples until the stood hard and erect, pointing outward from her body.

When she felt herself approaching orgasm, she slipped the first knuckle of her index finger into her steamy vagina, gently stroking the top of it, bringing her to new heights of sensation. It felt so good, much better than those fleeting rushes she got from being looked at by men.

Her orgasm built inexorably toward a peak. She gloried in it, reaffirming that she and she alone held the key to ultimate ppleasure, not some dickheaded sexist pig men. Her orgasm reached the boiling point...

... and without warning, and image of Rick leapt into her mind, so vivd it almost seemed real. He lay between her legs, his erect member at the gap between her legs, and he was pushing, pushing into her.

"No, nooooo..." she moaned, fighting to expel the image from her mind. This was not right. But it felt so good! She could just imagine what it would feel like to take that massive piece of meat inside her.

Her body overwhelmed her, the image of Rick dominating her mind. She burst into orgasm, shrieking his name. "Rick, Rick! Oh, Rick! Yes! Yessssss!"

Her body bounced against the bed as she struggled to take his imaginary manhood inside her, her hips straining as waves of pleasure rushed across her body.

She collapsed, exhausted, on the bed, the vision of Rick fading from her mind. As the pleasure drifted away, desperation overcame her. How could this be happening to her? Fantasizing about having sex with a man?

Tired and more confused than ever, Candace drifted off into a troubled sleep.

Rick walked into work the next morning tense and nervous. Today should be the day, he thought. He got right to work, hoping to pass the time until he was called into Briggs's office.

He happened to be in the mailroom when the package from Dexalco came in. He was careful not to be seen looking at it more than casually, however. He didn't want to arouse any suspicion. Prsently, Harvey assigned one of the other workers to take it up to Briggs. Rick mentally prepared himself.

Twenty-five minutes later, Harvey's phone rang, and the word came in that Briggs wanted to see Rick. Rick pretended to be surprised as he walked over to the elevator.

He got off at Marketing and walked over to Jennifer's desk. He was disappointed to see that she was still her same old overweight self. It was unreasonable, though, to expect antything to have changed in two days. It would take time.

He did note with satisfaction, however that there was no chocolate bar on her desk. In fact there was no food or drink at all except a half-eaten apple. Good girl, he thought! He should make sure, though.

"Jennifer!" he cried in mock surprise, "No chocolate?"

She grimaced. "Ugh. No. For some reason, I just haven't felt like having it recently. How's it going, Rick? What brings you up here?"

"Briggs wants to see me."

"Oooh. I'm sorry," she said sympathetically. "Well, I hope he doesn't rip your head off. Go on in."

"Thanks, Jen," he responded, walking through the doors into Briggs's office.

Briggs jerked to life as he entered. "Hello, Rick. What can I do for you?"

"The hypnotic drug came in?"

"Yep. Here it is." He gestured toward an open box on the desk. Inside, Rick saw nine glass vials, just like the one he'd stolen earlier. Sitting beside the box was a tenth vial, partially full. In front of it was a large, empty coffee mug.

"So you followed my instructions, Damon?" Rick asked.

"Yep. To the letter."

"Everything is taken care of?"

"Sure is. You start drawing your new salary tomorrow."

"Great. Good job, Damon." Rick took one of the vials out of the package and put it into one of the drawers of Briggs's desk. Briggs watched with interest.

"Now," Rick instructed him, "the bottle you just saw is for special occasions only. You will remember where it is, but you will never think about it. Never, that is, unless I saiy the words 'We need to have a talk' to you."

"When I do that, you are to immediately come back here and get a fresh cup of coffee. You will then put five drops of that solution into your coffee, and drink it. From that point on, you will sit here and do nothing until I come in and tell you otherwise. Understand?"

"Yes."

"Now, the rest of these," I indicated the package, "were forwarded to the Philadelphia office. You will fill out all the necessary paperwork, as though you'd sent it there, but you will also forge a receipt from the interoffice mail carrier. You will keep this forged receipt in your files. As far as you know, this package was sent to Philadelphia. Is that clear?"

"Uh-huh."

"Good." Rick took the package. He led Briggs through the forget-this-conversation drill, and left the office.

Jennifer was waiting outside, at her desk. She looked at Rick with her best sympathy expression.

"So how bad was it? she asked.

Rick feigned unhappiness. "Not too bad, I guess. He gave me the Assistant Director position."

Jennifer's big brown eyes lit up in wonder. "Really? No, you're joking!" she said, hitting him playfully.

"Really!" Rick exclaimed, all pretense of forlorness gone, a big smile splitting his face. "I'm the new Assistant Director of Marketing!"

Jennifer squealed in delight, jumping up to give him a friendly hug. Rick suffered this as best he could, as her flabby arms enveloped him. She was a friend, after all.

Harvey Sheldon congratulated Rick on his promotion and gave him the rest of the day off. "Hell," he joked, "last thing I want to do is piss off the new Assistant Director of Marketing!" Rick spent the day moving what few personal effects he had at work up to his new office and ordering furniture and supplies from the company store.

That evening, he picked Candace up for a celebratory dinner.

She wore a tasteful blue denim sleeveless top, a long white cotton skirt, and a pair of sensible ladies' shoes. She was gorgeous. Rick made sure to let his eyes roam all up and down her body, causing her no end of pleasurable discomfort.

They went to a pricey Italian restaurant. Rick splurged on good wine, making sure to get Candace good and drunk. And, as usual, he took advantage of her after-dinner trip to the restroom to pour a little bit of the drug into her drink.

On the way, home, Rick waited until she had slipped into a suggestible state before discussing the evening's activities.

"How are you feeling, Candace?"

"Happy."

"Oh? Why are you so happy?"

"Because you keep looking at my body, silly! It gets me so... hot to be looked at like that."

Rick smiled. "Well, from now it's going to make you even hotter, okay?"

"Okay!" she said excitedly. She seemed to really be getting into this.

"You want to get even more attention, don't you, Candace?"

"Oh, do I ever!"

"Well you could get more attention by dressing the right way. A little more... provocatively."

"How do I do that?"

"Well, try some shorter skirts. Men like to see women showing a lot of leg. And wearing blouses with lower necklines will show more of your breasts. That's another good eyecatcher."

"Hmm. I guess I'll try that."

"Also, high heels put a curve in the back of the leg, which a lot of mend find really sexy. And some simple jewelry can draw a lot of attention, too."

She pondered this for a minute, an uncertain look on her face.

"Well, it's the truth," Rick said. "Do it if you want to." He knew, of course, that sooner or later she would. Changing the subject, he asked, "Did you masturbate last night?"

Color rushed to her cheeks. "Yes, I did."

"And what happened?"

"I... I thought of you."

"How did that make you feel?"

"It was so... exciting. But I'm ashamed of it."

"Why?"

"Because you're a man! And men just want to use women and cast them aside. I'm disgusted that I could ever thing about letting you do that to me."

"But if it's so exciting to think about, could it be that bad?"

"Well..."

"You're going to masturbate again tongight. And again you're going to think about me, and you're going to experience the most intense orgasm you've ever had. And you're going to love it."

"Y-yes."

"Tonight, when I drop you off, you're going to give me a long, deep kiss. It's going to feel so good. And when I rub your nipples throught your blouse, you're going to feel a stirring deep within, a desire to have me inside you, filling you up. Understand?"

She was shaking, the power of his suggestions battling with her long-held beliefs. "O-O-Okay."

Rick watched as she calmed down, his suggestion implanting itself in her brain.

Candace snapped herself back to reality. What had been going on? She felt woozy, as though she'd just been asleep. But she hadn't, she knew that. She'd been sitting in the car, riding home with Rick, and... she couldn't remember.

"God, honey, I shouldn't have had so much to drink," she moaned.

"Huh? Oh, I'm sorry. All that wine went to your head, huh?" Rick responded.

"Yeah, I guess so." She leaned her head against his shoulder in a familiar way. A week ago, she wouldn't have been able to picture herself taking such comfort from a man, but now, here she was, leaning on his shoulder as though it was the most natural thing in the world.

Rick pulled up at her apartment. She looked up at him and smiled. "Thanks for dinner," she purred, in a dreamy voice. God, he was so... so... exciting.

"My pleasure," he responded.

She was drawn to his mouth. Slowly, slowly, she leaned forward, closing her eyes and parting her lips. Her conscience pleaded with her not to do this, not to give herself to a man, but she was driven by a fire in her loins.

He leaned over to meet her, and their lips touched, a thrill running through her body at the contact. She felt hot...

Her brain became aware of a gentle stroking on her left nipple. Oh, it felt so sexy... She kissed him with renewed vigor, mashing her lips and tongue against his teeth. His hand on her breast was setting her aflame.

Her hand involuntarily shot to his crotch, grasping the stiff bulge she found there, squeezing, imagining the trasure contained within. Imagining his manhood inside her...

No! She fought the desire. She mustn't let this happen! with a gasp, she broke the kiss and pulled away from Rick. He looked at her, confused.

"I... I gotta go, Rick. Bye." She got out of the car, doing her best to keep a serious, stern expression. She caught a glimpse of him looking at her hard nipples showing through the fabric, and groaned audibly. She closed the door and walked hurriedly to the door.

"I'll call you tomorrow," he said to her back. She turned and looked at him through the window. He was smiling at her. She couldn't help but smile back and wave weakly before turning back to the door. What the hell was happening to her?

She opened the door and shot up the stairs, her clitoris burning, aching for attention.

Rick whistled merrily as he drove home, thinking about Candace. He could picture her running up the stairs as fast as she could, desperate to get to her apartment and relieve the tension in her crotch. He admitted to himself that it was fun to see her like that, to know that he had that effect on her.

He was quite pleased with their little conversation about clothing. Not once had he ever commanded her to start dressing more provocatively. But she'd been interested all the same. And soon, he had no doubt, she would be sporting some more new clothes.

He'd been quite surprised when she'd grabbed his cock. In fact, he'd almost taken it as a signal that she was going to go all the way, and he'd been quite surprised when she pulled away. But all these feelings were new to her, he realized, and she couldn't be expected to realize what sort of signals she was sending.

Ah, well. He would get where he was going soon enough.

Candace stumbled into her apartment, slamming the door in her haste. She was almost too weak to stand. Not even bothering to turn the lights on, she threw herself onto the couch and pulled her skirt up. She was so horny from being with Rick all night, and the feel of his hand on her breast...

The elastic of her panties snapped as she pulled the wet fabric violently away from her. She bypassed her usual opening rountine, shoving one finger deep inside her. With her free hand, she rubbed furiously at her erect clitoris.

The finger in her pussy slid back and forth with a quick rhythm.

She imagined it was Rick, his hard manhood filling her with pleasure. She imagined him thrusting in and out of her, his body moving up and down in time with hers.

Without warning, she came, a torrential avalanche of pleasure rolling over her body as her fingers thrust furiously in and out of her.

Her mind envisioned Rick's throbbing manhood shooting its seed deep within her. She screamed in ecstacy as the imagined semen shot into her belly, and cried out his name.

Rick called Briggs the next day and confirmed that he was now being paid $80,000 per year, the standard salary for an Assistant Director. Excellent. He told Briggs that he would come back to work at the beginning of the next month.

He spent the day lounging around the house, relaxing. His mind wandered to Candace, and he wondered how long it would be before he would get into her bed. Soon, he knew, soon. But it was so hard to be patient.

Aroused, he took a short walk to the newsstand on the corner near his apartment. After a few minutes of browsing, he purchased a soft-core adult magazine, one of the slickly-produced national titles. He'd never done this before, but the frustration of his situation drove him to seek any release he could find.

Back at his apartment, he removed his purchase from the brown paper bag and began to flip through it. The magazine contained ten or so different photo sets. Most were of lone women. Some featured two women in a lesbian situation, and several featured women and men posing in various sexual positions.

His eyes fixed on one of the male-female couples, and he stopped flipping pages. He was captivated by the woman. It wasn't so much her appearance; she was fairly good-looking, but not unusually so for a magazine like this.

It was the way she was dressed, and the expression on her face, that caught his eye. She was lying on her back, legs spread and resting on the shoulders of the male model, who was preparing to shove his cock into her pussy.

Her clothes were nothing short of whorish. A shiny black leather skirt lay bunched around her waist, pulled up by one hand to give her partner access to her pussy. A white fishnet bodystocking had been pulled down her chest, laying bare her breasts, which were so large and round as to be obviously surgical. Black fishet stockings covered her legs, and adorning her feet were shiny black pumps with heels so long they had to be impossible to walk on. But her face was the fascinating part. It was well- made up, her hair immaculately styled. With her free hand, she was gripping the man's cock, pulling it toward her pussy. And the expression on her face was one of pure lust. Lips open, teeth mashed together in determination, eyes fixed on the cock in her hand.

The look that said that the cock was the only thing on her mind, the only thing she needed. The look of a complete slut finally getting the one thing she craved in life.

The strength of Rick's reaction to this picture amazed him. Never before had he found that sort of extreme promiscuity even remotely attractive. But somehow, this picture, this woman, completely entranced him. It was just the fact that she seemed to have so completely dedicated herself to the pursuit of sex, to the point of dressing like a whore and even having her breasts surgically enlarged.

His hand reached down to the zipper of his jeans...

Rick took Candace out every single night for the next several weeks. When the chance arose, typically once every two or three evenings, he slipped the hypnotic fluid into her drink and let it take effect.

On the way home, he would question her and "touch up" her programming, making minor adjustments here and there, generally designed to increase the strength of her desire for him.

Every night when he dropped her off, they would make out for a brief period, his hand rubbing her breasts as she nibbled his ears or kissed his neck or lips.

The first few times, these sessions ended quickly, with Candace breaking things off abruptly and leaving.

But soon, she became more relaxed, and they spent more and more time after each date sitting in his car kissing and nuzzling, Candace getting deliriously hot from Rick's attentions, and Rick getting hot from thinking about how hot he could make Candace. And after Candace left the car, she would always rush up to her apartment and masturbate on the couch, dreaming of Rick's cock filling her up.

While this was going on, Candace's wardrobe shifted again. Now she favored sleveless blouses, often with low necklines, and skirts that left her knees well exposed. Often she would wear a comfortable pair of pumps with heels around two inches in length.

This caused her ass to gyrate a little when she walked, much to the pleasure of Rick and any other men in the area. She wore a bit more makeup, with a brighter color lip gloss. A few simple pieces of jewelry - a couple earrings, a pendant, a bracelet on one arm -completed the look. Casual and tasteful, yet quite sexy.

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