Thanking My Hypnotist

The show is over.

Ashley has already been hypnotized, exposed, and humiliated in front of an entire club. Everyone saw what Evan made her do. Everyone heard her triggers. And worst of all, everyone saw how much she enjoyed it.

Now Evan is taking her backstage.

He tells her it would be irresponsible to send her home while the audience still knows the words that make her obey. But Ashley knows there is another reason he wants her alone.

He wants to be thanked.

Backstage, away from the crowd but surrounded by mirrors, Ashley tries to cling to the last scraps of her pride. She tells herself she does not want him. She tells herself the hypnosis made her desperate. She tells herself she is not the kind of woman who would beg, obey, and melt for the man who ruined her on stage.

But Evan knows better.

Every trigger pulls her deeper. Every command exposes another secret want. And every time Ashley fights him, he proves just how badly she wants to lose.