Leyla was a new hire, newly graduated, and this was her first job in the "real world." When I first saw her in my office, I knew she was going to be mine. She had cascading waves of lustrous dark hair, which fell ever so delicately against her chin. Her neck was long and slender. Her features were delicate, as if sketched by an ultrafine pencil. Despite their definition, her lips were full, sensual, red. I wanted to touch her, to own every inch of her skin, to make her come so hard, fierce, and screaming.
I was, and am, a self-employed businesswoman, manufacturing and marketing a boutique line of pheromone-based cosmetics. The name "June Loos" is known the world over for what our products do for our customers. "The Love Potion for the 21st century," as our boxes claim.
"Mrs. Loos, I'm so excited to be working here! This is like a dream come true," she gushed as we shook hands. A flush had crept into her cheeks, one that I appreciated, and expected would be a sign of things to come.
"It's 'Ms.', dear, but you can call me June. I've never been married. Don't really believe in it. Surely that ring on your finger doesn't mean that you..." I pursed my lips and watched her eyes widen.
"I'm engaged!" She thrust her wrist forward to show me the bauble her ring finger carried. "My boyfriend proposed when I got this job!"
I laughed and covered my mouth. "How wonderful for you, dear. I'm sure he's a lovely man who appreciates what a unique and talented individual you are. Leave the date with my secretary, and I'll be sure to send a gift."
"He's ..." her face hardened, and I knew I had struck a nerve. "He's been very kind to me and my family. We don't see eye to eye on everything, but I think we have a good relationship. We don't have a wedding date picked out yet, but I know we'll agree on one soon. I'll be sure to let your secretary know when we have one."
"Now, I've gotten far too personal, Leyla, I apologize. Let's start over. What are you most excited for working for our company?"
"I majored in marketing in college, but I love botany and chemistry. I think that the relationship between humans and plants is so interesting, and I'm just thrilled to be using all of those skills here at your company!"
"In that we are of one mind, Leyla. Humans have parts of their brains that are much, much older than anything modern science has come to understand. With our products, we influence people in ways they can't begin to account for. I look forward to us working together." I locked my gaze with her, and she smiled. I held it for longer than she was comfortable with, and her smile began to waver. Finally, she broke the gaze, and looked away.
Then, her face contorted into a look of horror as she clapped a hand over her nose and mouth; she sneezed! I quickly pulled my handkerchief from my pocket to give to her, the one I'd specially dosed with our Yoni compound, derived from plants first cultivated on the isle of Lesbos. She gratefully took the handkerchief and wiped her face, cleaning the sneeze and inhaling the compounds, soaking them into her mucus membranes. I pictured the Yoni traversing her nasal turbinates, effervescing up to the olfactory cortex, and delivering the payload of dopamine, oxytocin, opioids, and serotonin that equaled an irresistible love connection, dramatically retuning her brain's chemistry, and leaving her vulnerable to the hypnotic triggers I was about to implant.
She fixed her gaze upon me, dropping the handkerchief to the floor; her jaw opened, and her shoulders slumped. She was mine. My (all female) office staff continued their work around us without a pause. They'd seen this routine before. "Leyla," I slowly intoned. "my sex kitten. You will become sexually excited whenever I or one of my managers comes into the room. You won't understand why. When you hear the command phrase 'Rascal', you will forget everything that is happening around you and devote all your energies to pleasing whoever you are with sexually. Whatever they ask, you'll do. If they don't ask anything, get creative, but stop at nothing to turn them on."
"Leyla, you are permanently less. You are dependent on me for your life. My whim becomes your imperative. If I forgot you, you would die. My heart pumps yours too. My absence unmoors you. You float high above the ground, immaterial, until I make you real. Had you a life before you knew me? Impossible." Her eyes were fluttering back and forth as she listened, like she was in REM sleep. This is always my favorite part.