Before the induction, Penny's conscious brain would only allow the deeper desire to be hypnotized to manifest itself through nervousness and veiled ho...tility towards Mistress Catherine. But once the induction started, that subconscious desire to be hypnotized took over, pushing through her desire to remain in control, brushing past her notions that hypnosis wasn't real, even overwhelming her desire to protect Sandy. Penny had clearly buried her desires quite deeply, but those desires were also. The waiter sets them down and leaves, the gaze of the lovers never broken. She starts to eat with the elegance of a lady. He watches her graceful movements before turning to his juicy thick steak. They both eat in what seems like unbreakable silence. The food disappearing without a word between them. Glass after glass of wine following the food. The waiter returns with a waitress, taking the plates and replacing them with two smaller plates, a slice of seductive chocolate cake on both. Again. "He's going to take the van to get crushed. It will never be found," Hammond answered.The transfer from the van to the large truck went like clockwork. Carl woke by the time they got there. He was feeling sick to his stomach, but otherwise he was unhurt. Well, his chest was a little tender. At least they didn't have to carry him to the truck.The truck drove out of town with Carl, Samantha, and Hammond riding in a space surrounded by mattress boxes. After half an hour, the truck pulled up to a. Opening her mail she quickly discarded the obvious spam, read the two short emails from her brother and her niece, chuckled over the "Joke A Day" message, filed a recipe newsletter, and prepared to click off, but changed her mind as she recalled a conversation she had heard in the cafeteria at the school while she was at lunch.Two other teachers had been laughing over a third teacher's description of her "blind date" with a guy she'd met on the internet through a personal ad she had placed..