. uh... he... enjoys this?" he asked Lisa, not takinghis eyes off of his former boss and company owner."Enjoy it? Perhaps. More accurately, she's been...conditioned to it.Part of the breaking process. Part of the reason you hired me forthis. We've been over this before Douglas. Simply altering herphysically just wouldn't do. She'd fight her way through that. We hadto break her, mentally, just as we did physically. So, we did. It'sbecome a learned and patterned behavior now. Fully conditioned.. "What?" You're going to ask us what?" Shawna asked."And who was that, anyway? Nick?" Hope added."That was Ally," he explained, putting his phone away in his pocket. "Nick asked her to marry him..." he started, but Hope's squeal of delight cut him off."Aren't you excited?" she asked, having turned to Shawna who showed no obvious reaction."That was about two years ago, wasn't it?" she asked."Yes," he replied, clearly enunciating with a pointed look for Hope."Sorry," she muttered, obviously not. We decided to play five card stud poker, with thedealer calling out what was wild. We all had 5 items ofcloths we could lose, so the game would be fair andquick. I lost the first hand and had to remove 1 of mysocks.Ellen lost the next 2 hands and removed both socks andher shirt. She was wearing your standard bra, nothingfancy, but there was no mistaking her very erect nipples,which poked through the material. Bonnie lost the nexthand and removed her socks. I lost the next hand andremoved my. She was waiting at the bus stop when I picked her up in my repaired and repainted Chevy Silverado.She asked what was up and I got right to it. “I’d like you to take a ride with me, to show you something. It will take an hour or so, then I will drive you home. Does that work for you?”That meant she had to trust me, so she had to think about it. We had gotten better, but trust was not in her nature, every time her baby cried she was reminded of the pain that misplaced trust could bring. On the.