He had removed all of it. He put away the equipment and checked Alyson's pulse. His diving watch was in the bedroom, but there was no question that he... pulse was rapid and felt strange. He reached for the stethoscope, snapped the earpieces in his ears, and placed the pickup between the small, tanned, upright cones. He listened for a moment. Minor arrhythmia had already begun. The only good news he could think of was that she'd had a tetanus shot two years earlier. Small comfort, that. He. I love hearing you laugh. The butterflies in my stomach morphed into elephants on a stampede! I don’t know why I was so nervous, I trusted you with most secret thoughts and desires. I couldn’t eat much because of the nerves so we passed on desert. With a wicked glance you lean in and whisper that I would get my desert later. Leaving the restaurant, we went to walk down the pier by the shore of Lake Michigan. It was a warm night but it still felt great to hold your hand. There was a new moon, it. My instinct was that he wasn’t sure whether she was my friend, girlfriend, or wife. I quickly answered and told him we were married, out on a date and our kids were left at home. He was mesmerized by her beauty and told me I was lucky to have her. He then made a comment, which left me feeling a bit mystified, he said “that if he were married to someone as beautiful and sexy as my wife he could never” and just before he finished his thought, he received a text message, excused himself from the. He found her to be pretty suggestible. He had found that using hypnotism you couldn't just have people do whatever you wanted. One rule was that it had to be something they were okay with or agreed with at least subconsciously for their conscious mind not to instantly reject his suggestion. He had once suggested their middle sibling Ashley break up with a boyfriend who Nick could see was treating her poorly, but this broke her out of her suggestible state and she hadn't let him hypnotize her.