Chapter Twelve
Shortly after my punishment in the half-built house, Preston moved my desk out of research into an office adjoining his. I became his personal assistant and they hired a new girl for my research position. This new job assignment shocked me, since I never had any aspirations for working outside of my perfectly comfortable, anonymous niche. All this was done without my being consulted. And yet, by that time, I was letting things happen to me, rather than making them happen.
This was obviously a behavior new for me. I mindlessly gave up any thought of free will, unable to shake the indisputable hold my master had on my behavior and my thoughts. This all seemed perfectly rational, not at all silly, or insane.
The new working arrangement brought me to his side hourly, not da
