The instruction was simple, polite, and utterly irresistible. One moment, Braeden was walking through the door at the end of a long Friday afternoon, thinking of nothing more than the afternoon commute and his ill-fitting shoes and the frustrating conversation he had this morning with an employee who didn't seem to be responding to training, and the next Linda's words were hitting him with the force of a thunderbolt. He didn't question them; he didn't have the chance. He simply sank to the floor, his warm brown eyes glazing over as his expression went blank and drowsy for his Queen.
"That's right, honey," Linda cooed, her delicate pink fingers stroking his hairless scalp, smoothing away the tension in his muscles until every last stress furrow melted away from the dark brown flesh of his forehead. "It's so much easier to be on your knees for me, isn't it? So relaxing to let all that strength drain away and be my very good pet for a little while." She reached out and pushed the door shut, closing off the outside world and leaving the two of them wonderfully, blissfully alone together. Braeden realized he was sinking ever deeper into a soft hypnotic trance, but the knowledge seemed abstract and disconnected. His experience and his awareness drifted ever further apart as he nodded and sighed and blinked his heavy, drowsy eyes.
Linda cupped his chin in her fingers and turned his head up to look at her. His gaze locked onto her bright blue eyes, staring in rapt fascination as she smiled down at him. "No need to think anymore, darling. No need to carry any of those heavy burdens and responsibilities. All you need to do right now is drift deeper for me, allow your will to fade away so that you can be so blank and relaxed and happy for me. Isn't that right, sweetie?" He felt himself nodding, despite the fact that his neck muscles had turned to water. It didn't even occur to him that her hand was doing all the work now.
"Of course I'm right. I'm always right." Her voice was soft and lilting, sweet and silvery and loving in Braeden's ears, and it reminded him of all the other times she'd taken him unexpectedly into the warm, floaty embrace of her hypnotic power. Some of them he remembered with a blissful smile every day he woke up next to his beautiful wife; others slept in his memory until he sank deep for her again and recalled all the wonderful programming she'd instilled in his mind that he'd happily agreed to forget. But it was always that same beautiful voice in the back of his head. His Queen's voice.
He'd been submitting to that voice for ten years now, ever since the day when he first met Linda at the local hypnosis munch and found himself unable to stop staring at the beautiful woman four seats down whose radiant confidence belied her tiny, delicate body. She looked like she couldn't open a mason jar without help, but even back when she was a novice hypnotist, she knew exactly what she wanted and wasn't shy about going after it. The munch wasn't supposed to be a place to meet potential partners, but it didn't take long for her to break that rule. And Braeden wasn't about to remind her of it.
It started with an offer to practice together at the end of the munch, when the formal presentation was over and the party room they rented broke up into smaller gatherings to try out all the things they'd been discussing over the previous thirty minutes. Braeden had even less experience going into trance than Linda did at hypnotizing someone, but she quickly found the right cadence and the perfect tone of voice to soothe him into a rapt, fascinated state of calm enjoyment. The rules of the organization didn't allow for touch in a public venue, and both of them were careful to respect that; nonetheless, he surfaced back into consciousness with a throbbing erection. Her playful grin told him that she'd noticed.
Within a few weeks, they were texting each other all day and meeting each other every afternoon at his apartment for more 'practice' in hypnosis. The practice usually ended up much like Braeden's current situation--his blank eyes gazing up into hers, eyelids gradually getting impossibly heavy from the strain of staring at an angle until he couldn't keep them open any longer. He was a good foot and a half taller than Linda, but from his knees she was always taller than him. And before long he wound up flat on his back anyway.
A sense of deja vu overwhelmed him as Linda gently rocked his body from side to side, the motion leaving him ragdoll limp until she was able to easily guide him all the way to the floor and roll him into a supine position with his fluttering eyelids staring up at the ceiling and her body straddling his. "That's it, cutie pie," she cooed, one hand unbuttoning his shirt while the other explored the warm flesh beneath it. "Deeper and deeper for your Queen now. Deeper and deeper into relaxation, my drowsy darling."