I went to the bakery and it was a pretty big bakery, they would normally have 15 people working but this time there were only 6 and that included the payroll clerk and the secretary so there were not many of us workers. Fine. I ran the whole fucking bakery almost on my own for 2 months. It was hard work but I didn't want to let them down and I didn't get replacements until after 8 weeks. It was a nice gig and I got to do a lot but now I could just sit back and rest.

It's always a surprise what comes out of these Bran gigs. I messaged Adam too and he told me he'd be back to deal with werewolf crises after Bran put him on that job. Adam's got a bad habit. He was Bran's lapdog. What Bran said and made Adam do, he obeyed. Fine being Bran Marrok and all, I had seen Adam even say to Samuel or Charles against him and loudly. When I got back to the Colorado house I went to the couch and closed my eyes, my phone was there on the coffee table but I hoped it wouldn't ring for a while. I fell asleep and woke up to the fucking phone ringing.

I answered the phone, tired, because I had just been on a long PR gig at the bakery and was thinking of spending, well, a week doing nothing. Bran was always organizing these gigs. Usually, he would take the gig he wanted and I would have the good sense to pretty much run the whole bakery myself. Not that I don't like baking and cooking, but as a profession, no thanks, at least not on that scale. I picked up the phone and looked at it, it was Bran, I answered "Mimi, Bran what? The gig's done, now I'm thinking of taking a week off." Bran groaned and said, "Good little girl you got it done, but why don't you come down here to Missouri I'd like to go over some information with you about the medical facilities." I sighed, so no leave, fine " OK I'll go for a drive. It'll probably be about 13 to 16 hours depending on traffic."

Bran said, " Don't worry, Charles will pick you up and you won't have to drive." I said to Bran " OK, when's the pick up?" Bran was silent for a moment and said " Half an hour, ok?" I said, "ok, I'm ready, I'm just packing some stuff." Bran hung up.

I then went to pack and get my bag ready in case I needed to run errands. I was really hoping that the information would be valid and we could finally get some publicity for these torture and medical experiments. I hopped into Charles' SUV and we chatted about the gig stuff mostly. Unfortunately, none of the five candidates were going to any kind of public rescue project and now to top it all off, I was being offered money again, by some pharmaceutical company.

Charles assured me that it wasn't a problem and Magnum already had the means to deal with it. Eventually, we got there and I grabbed my bag and marched inside. Charles drove off.

Bran met him and said "Did you have a good drive? Come on I need contact details for some of these things." Oh, so this was the reason for getting me here. Contact details. I didn't give Bran nearly every contact I had because most of them only wanted to work through me. And I had explained this to Bran over and over again.

I contacted these people and asked if they wanted to talk to Bran, but they didn't. I sighed and said "Bran, you know I have told and called these people, they don't want to be when dealing with me. Please don't start that again, I can't take it anymore. Did you have any information to even go through or was this just a way to get me here to talk about my contacts?"

Bran clenched his jaw and the muscle in his temples now twitched. He said "Mimi, contacts, now, otherwise there will be consequences. Believe me, little girl, I will get those contacts, like it or not. I wouldn't always want to do this the hard way, but I guess you don't give me much choice." Bran took a couple of steps threateningly toward me.

I said " Let's just go and eat first and talk about this. I can call them again and you'll hear their answer yourself. Now please I should probably eat, so could you go?" Bran sighed and seemed to relax a little and said " Well, let's go and eat and see who I can get in touch with. It would help a lot with those legal things." We went to eat and I took a big portion of food from the fridge and put it in the oven to warm up.

Bran arranged drinks and sandwiches for the table. I had the coffee maker ready to click on when you've eaten. I finished my food and thought, no shit, not again, when double vision started to dance in my eyes and my vision started to blur. Bran said calmly "I told you, you don't give me a choice. Fine. You'll give them contact, but for disobedience like that, punishment comes first." I felt my consciousness begin to blur and I felt Bran lift me into his arms, and then the blackness came.

Bran lifted the unconscious woman into his arms and carried her to the medbay. He stripped Mimi naked and fastened her to the table with spiked restraints. He also provided more restraints, but first, he waited for the two drops of chloral hydrate that had temporarily stunned Mimi to wear off. Bran was old and strong. Empathy was, according to Bran, more or less a weakness when it came to discipline.

Damon had been an excellent apprentice and knew how to handle Mimi, in a way that he could feel. But Damon wouldn't be in the right frame of mind right now, so he'd put Damon in Bulgaria for vampire talks.

Adam. Defender Mimi's bodyguard. Adam was in Africa with Samuel, hunting voodoo witches and dealing with epidemics. Magnum took care of fleas and had to do quite a few gigs, so he wouldn't be a hindrance either. Charles had just been sent to Argentina by Bran to visit an ex-girlfriend to relieve some pressure. Now he would get one good crack at Mimi.

Adam had been too soft and giving from the start and Damon. He had thought that with Damon's reputation, Mimi would be in control in no time. No, Damon had been and had fallen in love with Mimi almost immediately and now always defended Mimi sometimes as hard as Adam and sometimes even harder.

Yes, Bran knew that sometimes Damon was in the mood that he was actually useful. Sometimes. He just had to know what to look for. Bran took his time putting all the supplies in place. Mimi started to move.

I woke up on a table or some hard surface, but there was a cloth under my back. There were barbed cuffs on my arms and legs. I had a little bit of room to move because the chains on the shackles were giving way a little bit. I started to try to get myself free. I was also naked as hell and cold. The room I was in was cool as if there was an efficient air conditioner.

Oh, medbay of course. I opened my eyes and tried to see if there was any help anywhere. Bran came over to me and put one hand on my forehead holding my head still as he stuck a needle in the larynx and paralyzed my vocal cords. He said " You won't have a chance to give those contacts yet until your punishment is over. Five days of gelling and this time you'll only be with me. No one else gets in, no one else knows. There are advantages to being Marrok, you can control the pack ties pretty much how you want. This jelly is different, oh yes this is a sedative jelly and strong, but this has added medicine. Neuroleptic. And another neuropeptide. This little neurotransmitter prevents rage. Samuel actually discovered it and it's a good one because it has a half-life of months. Once you get it in your system, you can't get rid of it. I also cooled this jelly so that it slowly warms up in your stomach cavity, and you can feel how slowly the drug kicks in. This is a punishment after all. You'll be spending most of your days with me in my office, I'm sure, and I've arranged a place for you to sleep, yes. Five days. By the fifth, I will no longer paralyze your vocal cords and we'll see how eager you are to give contact. I can keep this up as long as necessary. Look, this first batch is just the rage blocker, no need for more. You'll be paralyzed for the next 3-6 months. And another thing. Your heat time in the Azores. Did you know Damon robbed the pack? You're supposed to keep your heat in the pack. Not alone on some fuck island. "

I'm tearing the shackles off now with the intention of getting them off. Oh, my God, Bran could be such a braggart sometimes. I'm not going to volunteer for any gelling, that's for sure. Bran walked to the top of the bed and unearthed a new shackle which he locked around my upper arm so that my entire arm was pressed against the bed.

He walked to the other side and did the same. And on the legs. He put some kind of belt over my thighs so I couldn't get my hips up. He brushed my stomach and felt around. Then he said "One more medicine. I'm going to give this into the vein in this arm. It will take effect soon. A muscle relaxant. I wanted you to fight and struggle before I gave you this. You feel it already. Oh, your stomach muscles are all soft. Now we can fit a lot of jelly in here. Now I feel like we're getting started. As you can see I've lifted you up a little so you can see and feel."

Bran made an incision below my diaphragm and pushed the end of the jelly tube deep into my abdomen, he moved it around there and then opened the tank. I felt the cold jelly start to spread hard inside me Bran rubbed and pushed the jelly down as far as he could. My bladder seemed to burst as the jelly pressed down on it too. The coolness increased and I could feel the amount of jelly increasing, the pressure inside me increasing and because my muscles were paralyzed, my stomach was bulging considerably. Eventually, the tank was empty.

Bran pulled the tube out of me and started to massage. My stomach was tense, full. Bran massaged and slowly I felt the sedative creeping up on me. Bran stopped massaging and said " Oh, I think you're starting to calm down, good little girl, that's it. Excellent. Now I'm going to put a brace on you like this which will ensure that the jelly is in contact with your tissues all the time and is absorbed. You can feel the neuropeptide putting your rage away already. It works fast. "

My head was weird, sedated and yet I could partially think, but I couldn't do anything. I couldn't really get my rage to connect and when Bran started pulling this neoprene or cellular plastic vest over me, I knew I was in trouble. The vest went from under my diaphragm to my hips, so the whole jelly area. Bran took one side and brought it over my belly and pulled the opposite side really tight with Velcro. The vest had many velcro's and it really pushed my stomach into the knot, I could feel the jelly now being absorbed efficiently and mercilessly sedating me into an ever deeper slumber.

Bran released me from the restraints and turned me over onto my stomach, tying the stickers firmly to my back. Then he helped me to sit up and put on my dress, nothing more. He directed me to sit on the sofa in his study and gave me a cup of drink. He said "Drink this, it's a laxative, now we're going to empty your bowels completely so that in the morning when you jelly up we'll fill your bowels with jelly first, then the rest of your stomach. Penalty. Now you go to the toilet as soon as you need to, that's effective, I think I can get you pretty empty in five hours. Five days of partial fasting is fine with you, it's part of the punishment." I drank the drink because I couldn't help it. Bran used his Marrok power so I had to obey, even though I knew I would go to the bathroom immediately because the Lord was not hiding his power at all now.