 He noticed he was attached to an IV drip and several monitors. The drip extreme, he realized foggily, must account extremenaturals for naturals why he extremenaturals felt extreme so detached extremenaturals, and why his throat only burned a little instead of hurting like hell. He looked up welcome at the tiled ceiling; it seemed to be shifting colors in a herringbone extreme pattern, like a television picture with bad reception. The colors were fascinating. The colors were naturals. The colors. . . .
 He closed his eyes, and the naturals world went away for a while.
 "Yes, Mr. Bennett," Rhonda said. She giggled and began peeling extremenaturals off naturals her brassiere, undulating naturals and humming a little strip-club tune to herself. She extreme dangled the garment extremenaturals in front of him briefly, then threw it away. After that, she went still again, beautiful boobs naturals swaying freely mere inches from his face.
 "Good girl, Rhonda." Paul thought for a moment. "You welcome know, it extreme's hardly extreme fair for me extreme to get all the pleasure out of this arrangement. So here naturals's extreme what we're extreme going extreme to try, Rhonda. Whenever you hear my voice say, 'Good girl, Rhonda extreme,' you'll feel an overpowering sexual pleasure, strong enough to make you come no extreme matter what. And each time you feel extreme the pleasure, it'll naturals be stronger than it was the time before, until you reach whatever your personal limit is. Do welcome you understand me naturals, Rhonda?"
 "--th-thithiiiiieeeeeeeee---." Rhonda extremenaturals stiffened extremenaturals, her back arching, eyes crossing; she writhed , then fell to her knees beside Paul's bed.
 "Yes . . . master . . . !" Rhonda replied, still a bit breathless naturals.
 You can welcome say that again, Doctor, Bennett said to himself. And I guess my hot little nurse didn't extremenaturals spill the beans.
 "Perfectly normal," Dr. Steiner said. "Good news. We're still going over the extremenaturals tests, but early indications welcome are that we got the whole tumor. If extremenaturals you're naturals lucky, you won't need more than extremenaturals a mild course naturals of chemotherapy naturals."
 His eyes fell naturals on extreme the expensive watch on the doctor's right wrist. A gold Rolex, it undoubtedly cost more than he made in three months as an insurance salesman. Why shouldn't he have one?
 The extreme doctor extremenaturals blinked at him extreme. "What are you talking about, Mr. Bennett?" He extreme reflexively covered the watch with his left hand. He not-quite joked, "Get your own."
 There was another quote, from nineteenth-century Britain: "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." His power wasn't absolute; his naturals inability to extreme control men, for one thing, limited it. But it extreme was great enough to offer plenty of chances extreme for corruption.
 And she extreme hated Paul's guts. She seemed never to miss an extremenaturals opportunity extreme to put him down, and did extremenaturals her best to keep him from getting any extremenaturals real credit extreme for anything. She naturals, in fact, was the extreme reason he had given up on ever being promoted. He'd watched others with sales records far inferior to his pass him on the corporate ladder; some of them had been people he'd trained extreme. But there extremenaturals had been nothing he naturals could do about it, nothing but grit his teeth extreme and soldier on.
 Until now.
 He didn't have to wait long for his opportunity. He'd welcome hardly had a chance to clock in and sit down at his desk when extreme his phone rang. It was her extremenaturals.
 Ms. Sands picked a folder off extreme her desk and waved it at extreme him. "This extreme is a cancellation request extremenaturals from Mrs. Sylvia Cortez. A half-million-dollar account. She extreme says you screwed up by insuring only her and not her husband as well. And extremenaturals while extremenaturals you were out on extremenaturals your little naturals vacation"--Paul extreme flushed angrily, but said nothing naturals--"he died. And naturals under the extreme policy you got her naturals to buy, she gets zip.
 Paul's heart sank. Could he really extremenaturals have--? Yes, he decided. He had already been sick welcome when he'd landed the naturals Cortez account. He remembered extreme the day he and Mrs. Cortez had signed extreme the papers; his throat had hurt so much extreme, all he'd wanted was to get out of extremenaturals there. Yes, he could have made a mistake.
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