Chapter 1: The Cheating Husband
"Don't think I don't know you're fucking that skank of a waitress down at the bar."
"Hey, hey, hey. Look. Babe, you can't be goin' around flinging shit like that at people. I didn't touch no waitress. An honourable gentleman is what I am."
"Oh yeah? Then what're those expenditures I see on the passbook, hmm? A hundred dollars on Monday, a hundred and fifty dollars on Thursday, another hundred on Sunday... What does the honourable gentleman have to say about that?! You aren't fucking that waitress, then maybe you're buying hookers! Which one is it?!"
"Hey, that's not cool, babe. You can't be goin' around snoopin' in people's passbooks. That's like invasion of privacy. That's what it is. That thing's illegal."
"Buying fucking hookers is illegal! Fucking cheating is illegal! You damned bastard!"
As entertaining as watching this meltdown was, the woman was starting to get hysterical. Better put a stop to it now rather than risk them getting to fisticuffs. It's happened before in my counselling sessions.
I reached down and opened a drawer under the desk I was sitting across from the bickering couple. I took out my favourite prop. Wearing it, I slammed my open palm down on the desk with a resounding...
CRACK.
Both of them jerked towards me and caught sight of my face. Their eyes were immediately drawn to the bright red clown nose I was wearing.
I was prepared and immediately mimicked their feelings of shock and incredulity at their counsellor suddenly looking like a joker. Using those feelings as a bridge I accessed their minds and dragged both of them into a trance state.
The light in their eyes dimmed, their shoulders relaxed, and they sank back into their chairs calmly. If not for their open eyes and upright heads, they might as well have been sleeping.
I rubbed my forehead. Getting two at once was still a bit difficult for me.
Taking off my trusty prop, I put it away.
Now, from the earlier conversation, it was pretty clear that the husband was cheating, but as a professional, it wouldn't do to just assume things.
Thankfully, I had the means to easily confirm the truth.
"Did you cheat on your wife?"
All I had to do was ask the man.
"Yes." He replied in a voice devoid of any emotion.
"Well, glad that's out of the way. Now, who did you cheat with?"
"Ashley, the waiter at the pub downtown."
"Oh? Do you have a picture of her?"
"Yes."
"Show me."
Like a wooden puppet he reached into the pocket of his pants and extracted his phone. After fiddling with it for a while, he reached out across the desk and handed it to me before leaning back in his chair.
I adjusted the nameplate on my desk reading Dr Denver Adams which he had knocked askew. Then I turned my gaze to the phone screen.
I let out an involuntary whistle.
The picture was of a dark-skinned girl, completely naked. She had beautiful cocoa skin that shone under the flash of the camera, delectable breasts the size of apples, slim waist and wide hips. Her thick dark nipples that made you immediately want to pinch them were erect at the centre of her large areola and her pussy was shaved.
She was a stunner, this Ashley.
I swiped through the gallery and wasn't disappointed to find more than one picture of her. They included her in various stages of undress, starting from a school-uniform to her birthday suit.
Cosplay and striptease. Damn this guy was really a gentleman.
The only thing marring the perfection of the photos was that in each one Ashley had covered her face with her hands. I guess she was trying to maintain plausible deniability if the guy tried his hand at blackmail.
The only other feature I could make out was that Ashley had her hair styled in frizzy curls with gold highlights.
"Show me your chat logs with her."
I handed the phone back to him and after some fiddling, he handed it back.
I skimmed through the chat log. It was pretty much what I had expected. Lots of digital canoodling with emojis, calling the guy Daddy every other sentence, oblique references to promises of sexual rewards if the guy bought her this cosmetic, or that handbag... The whole sugar daddy schtick.
I was just about to close the case and declare my verdict when I reached the final message in the log.
"Hey Daddy! You remember the friend I talked about last time? I convinced her to come! I showed her a pic of you and she's totally into you. Let's meet up in front of the shop this Sunday. We'll show you a really good time.
Love you, Daddy. ~muah~
P.S. She's a virgin!"
There was a picture of the second girl attached. One look at her and my eyes shone. The girl probably wasn't a virgin, just calling herself one to raise her price. But just in case she was...
I quickly sent out a reply agreeing to meet up at the designated place before deleting the entire thread as well as the contact from the phone. I also deleted all the pictures except for one, the nude, which I transferred to my laptop. Then I deleted that too.
Returning the phone to the man, I asked:
"What do you fear the most?"
He shuddered even in his trance state.
"Lizards."
Good, good. I have those.
I went to my desktop, navigated to the folder "creepy-crawlies", and found one of the most horrifying lizards I could: the Komodo dragon.
Using my phone to snap a picture of the man's still dazed wife, I transferred that to my laptop and set up an infinitely looping slideshow of the three pictures - Ashley, the Komodo dragon and his wife.
Starting the slideshow, I turned the laptop towards him.
The three pictures flickered on his dazed eyes.
Closing my eyes, I reached out to him with my mind and tried to sense his emotions. After a bit of fumbling around, I caught his unique bandwidth and jacked into it.
His emotions were damped by the trance state I had put him in but if I focused hard enough, I could still catch what they were.
The shrill, screechy sound of horror. (Obviously for the lizard.)
The deep, mellow tone of lust. (Ashley! Look what you're doing to your Daddy.)
The flat monotone of boredom. (Ah, this guy cheated cause he was bored of his wife. No guilt. Not even a bit.)
Oh well, looks like he deserved what was coming.
Using my mind, I rewired his emotions and changed up the connections. They were like three plugs slotted in three sockets and I was swapping them around.
I linked his lust to his wife, the horror to Ashley, and the boredom to the lizard. Then I played around with the degrees of the emotions until I had what I wanted.
After this, the guy would only be able to get horny when he saw his wife's face. Any other woman he managed to undress would just make his skin crawl.
Stopping the slideshow at the lizard, I ordered his wife to say "No." several times. Reaching into his mind, I connected the word to the boredom engendered by the image.
Done! I could just imagine what would happen. If sex was a drug, his wife was the dealer and he the addict. And he was totally hooked.
He would get horny whenever he saw his wife, but she could stop him cold with just a word. There was no doubt in my mind about who would wear the pants in this relationship in the future.
I turned my gaze to his wife who was still in her trance, drooling slightly from her partly open mouth. I checked her out from top to bottom and the corners of my lips curved upwards into a smile.
It was time to have her thank me for bringing her husband to heel.
...
I followed some fundamental rules, one of which was: Never cuck an innocent man. But if he was cheating... then his partner was free game.
There were two parts to my power - somnus control and somatic control.
Somnus control meant that I could put my subjects in a trance and then mess around with their minds. I could implant suggestions, erase memories and shift their association of emotions around.
The only limitation was that I couldn't control more than two people at a time and that the suggestions I planted couldn't be too drastic or they would be automatically rejected by the brain.
After a successful use of the power, the subjects would wake up feeling like the whole experience was a dream.
Somatic control, though, was actually much cruder. With it, I could control the body, but the mind would remain awake - as a prisoner within a cage of flesh.
I could use both types of control together, or in isolation.
With a snap of my fingers, both the man and the woman woke up.
I didn't wake them fully though. For the woman, I brought her consciousness almost to the surface. It was like a light daze... the kind you have after one too many drinks and gave her back full control of her body.
The man, I woke up halfway (he'd think he was having a really vivid dream) and sealed his ability to move. Now, he could only sit in that chair and watch.