The day after Laura had met with Jose Mandel, Johnny joined Laura at her hotel. She relayed the whole situation about her agreement with him and the subsequent plan for her to go under cover and try to find out what was really going on with "La Palma Limited".
Unlike Marco Diaz, at Garcia Enterprise, Jose had not given her a name to talk to at La Palma Limited, so Laura would have to find some other way to gain access to the company that he suspected was the real export company that was, or at least partially involved, in this entire operation and that had also tried to set up Jose's own company as the illegal exporter.
Johnny and Laura both decided not to let their editor know about the agreement Laura had made with Jose Mandel for fear that he may contact the CIA operative that they now suspected had purposely lead them down the wrong path with the dis-information about Jose Mandel's company. They decided to proceed in cooperation with Jose and the Spanish authorities from this point forward.
Therefore, Laura and Johnny rented a car and drove the 85 miles northeast to Elda, Spain to begin their investigation of "La Palma Limited". They rented a suite at a major hotel in the city, again acting primarily as tourists, with some part time business research projects, while visiting this region of the country.
As It turned out, this area of Spain as Jose had told them, was also where a majority of the ultra high heel footwear was semi-handmade for export to major distributors throughout the world. As a matter of fact, one of the shoe makers in the area supplied a US national shoe distributor chain, called Wild Shoe, with a series of 4-1/4 and 4-3/4 inch stiletto heels (for a 6-1/2 shoe size) in the mid to late 80's when stilettos were back in style after their demise in the mid to late sixties.
They researched some of those companies, in order to get 'the lay of the land' before her planned visit to La Palma Limited. Johnny, AKA Niel Nelson, was to stay around their hotel and play the tourist role while Laura, AKA Nora Nelson, visited those companies alone. In the meantime, Johnny said that he would also check with the local authorities to see if they had any other information on La Palma Limited.
After visiting several of the local footwear manufactures, the last company Laura decided to call on was the one that Jose mentioned that he had done some legitimate business with for several years. He had indicated that Garcia Enterprises was one of the companies that actually was making the highest of the ultra high stiletto heels in Spain and therefore they might be a good source for her phantom ultra high heel footwear line.
Jose had told them that he thought they also had made some of the ultra high heel footwear for the dark underworld consortium, but he was pretty sure they just unknowingly sold it directly to whom they thought was a legitimate export service called La Palma Limited. If Laura visited the company and talked to Marco Diaz in private, she might be able to verify Jose's theory since he would definitely try to flirt with her in some manner.
Rather than asking to speak to Marco specifically, Laura simply made a cold call to Garcia Enterprises and asked to speak to someone in Marketing. She was connected to someone that the receptionist said was a marketing supervisor. Laura also explained that she was looking for a company to supply her new online company with a line of ultra high stiletto heel footwear. The man quickly set up for her to come to his office at the factory the next day at 1:00 PM and said to tell the receptionist that she had an appointment with Marco Diaz. Laura accepted and was happy that she had accidently got a meeting with Marco without specifically asking for him. Laura therefore planned to be fully prepared for her presentation to him the next day.
When Laura Lake, under the name Nora Nelson, arrived by taxi at Garcia Enterprises, she presented herself to the receptionist as the founder of a new company called "Fetish High Heels, Apparel & More". AKA Nora further indicated that she had appointment with one of their marketing supervisors by the name of Marco Diaz. The pretty receptionist said he was expecting her and she then escorted her to his office located near the front of office building that was located in front of the shoe making factory.
Laura noticed that the women was smartly dressed in a tightly belted, dark grey business suit with what she estimated to be dark grey patent opera pumps with stiletto heels of at least 5-1/2 inches, probably the 5-5/8 inch version of the ultra high heel line. As suggested by Jose, Laura had worn a professional black business suit that set off her 41-18-41 hourglass figure when she wore her Gwendolen butt lifting corset and special lace-up cone bra. She also wore her lowest, 5-1/4 inch black patent stiletto heels so as to not cause any unusual attention to her ultra high heel training.
She was escorted to the man's office and introduced herself as Nora Nelson to a rather tall and handsome man in a business suit who said, in English with a slight Spanish accent, that he was Marco Diaz, the Manager of New Business for the company.
"So he was a manager, not just a supervisor," Laura though to herself.
"Please set down Mrs. Nelson," he instructed and pointed to one of two leather chairs in front of his desk.
Laura sat down and set her rather large black patent purse on the floor beside her chair.
"You said on the phone that you are interested in of our line of ultra high heel footwear?" he questioned in an relaxed manner.
"Yes, as a matter of fact, I was drawn to your company for that very reason as I am starting my own online company in the US, to market them and other fetish apparel," Nora stated confidently.
She continued and further explained that she had discovered through their company business directory and website that they specialized in making ultra high stiletto heels which was going to be the main product line for their her new company. Laura, AKA Nora in her under cover role, indicated that she had bought various single pairs ultra high heels, in her US 6-1/2 shoe size, from different auction websites and had learned to walk in several different ultra-high-heel heights. She said her self-imposed ultra high heel and figure training over the last several months were in preparation for doing some modeling work for her new company's online website and print catalog.
"What heel heights are you going looking to promote?" Marco asked.
"Well, for my shoe size, I want to add several heel heights from 5-1/4 inches, which I'm now wearing, to vertical arched and past the vertical arched stiletto heels! I have learned to confidently maneuver in all the single pairs of shoes that I bought on several auction websites, including the 10-degree past-the-vertical height," she proudly replied.
Wow, you really must be dedicated to your new business and I see how your figure training has certainly paid off. By the way, may I ask what are your measurements?" he happily quizzed.
"Of course you can. Thay's why I wore this outfit. Right now with the help of a special 'lace up' cone bra and Gwendoline style corset I'm a perfect 100 at 41-18-41 inches when my nipples are fully aroused! Without the special corset and bra, I'm still a perfect 100 at 40-20-40 inches, again when my nipples and puffy areolas are fully aroused, which I pretty much have trained them to be most of the time! It took a lot of hard work and continual training to get there I might add," she gleefully exclaimed in a flirting manner by noting in detail how she obtained her maximum 41 inch bust measurement.
"That certainly is a world class figure you've developed. I'm sure it will definitely help you in presenting your products since you indicated that you're going to do some of the modeling work; especially with the world class-nipples I assume you apparently have." he remarked, also in somewhat of a flirting manner by referring to her nipples as possibly 'world-class'.
Laura was very appreciative by his remark and responded by saying again in a flirting manner, "Thank you very much for your comment about my nipples. I also have very puffy and cone shaped areolas and I'm very proud of them as well!"
"Before we discuss your business any further, why don't I show you some samples of our ultra high heels in our special showroom that is designed to perfectly display our various heel heights. It also serves as a venue for anyone who may want to try on a particular heel style or height. It was designed to assist them in properly mastering the art of standing and walking in these extremely high arched shoes and boots," Marco declared in a gleeful tone of voice as he arose from his desk chair and indicated that she should follow him to a doorway on another side of his office.
Lara quickly followed him and as he walked towards the doorway. Marco opened the door and indicated that she should first enter the lighted room. She stepped into a large showroom that was wonderfully decorated with muted pastel colors and soft lighting.
The ambiance of the room was incredible. It was high ceilinged with tasteful indirect lighting that showed off the footwear that was displayed on one of the larger walls of the room. Each heel height and style was perfectly presented in their individually lighted rectangular box-like sections. They were nested together and mounted to the wall in an elaborate maze-like manner. Each box with the pair of shoes or boots were positioned to emphasize the uniqueness of their particular design feature or heel height.
Lara was immediately impressed with the atmosphere of the 'large living room' concept which consisted of several luxury shoe fitting chairs, two large sofas arranged such that they faced the wall of displayed footwear. In addition, there was a coffee table with side tables and overhead canaster lamps dimly spot-lighting those tables, as well as several overstuffed chairs also facing the same footwear display. There was what appeared to be a full service bar in one corner of the room.
Marco then lead Laura over to one of the tall, plushily padded fitting chairs that faced the display wall. He then helped her to sit down in the 'bar-height' piece of furniture with her 5-1/4 inch stiletto heels resting on the adjustable footrest. The position of her pumps on the footrest caused her ankles to be bent backward so they emphasized her ultra-high-heel training by displaying her, so called 'well-turned' ankles. In turn, it also perfectly displayed Lauras's impeccably well trained insteps and flaring calf muscles.
"Since you are self-trained to wear ultra high heels, let me introduce you to something unique you might want to offer on your new website. We call it a 'toe-down-ballet-trainer' shoe or boot style that positions your foot so that it is in a semi-ballet configuration, but not in a full ballet 'En Pointe' stance. It points your toes downward so that they are at about a 45 degree angle and therefore increases the possible heel height to about 86% of the full length of a shoe or boot for your shoe size using our lasts. In your case, the total length of the shoe that you would wear in this case is about 11.75 inches for your US 6-1/2 shoe size. That dimension is longer that the total length of you barefoot because of the way our lasts are designed. They take in to account the additional material that is needed to support the big toe and ball of the foot, particularly in the various ballet style of footwear. So for your shoe size, with a past-the-vertical arch and a 45 degree toe-down angle, the total heel height would equate to a 10-1/8 inches in a stiletto heel style," Marco elaborated in a business-like manner before going to one of the display panels to retrieve a pair of black suede opera pumps of the style and type that he had just described in such detail.
