Part Two: Kneading the Dough
"You wanted to see me, Nicholas?"
Candice stood nervously in the office doorway. Despite his insistence that she come meet with him immediately, Nicholas Dawson had made her wait outside his office for over half an hour under the judgmental gaze of his pretty young secretary. It had made her feel a bit self-conscious. Worry had begun to sour her pleasant, bubbly mood and now she wasn't feeling fun or naughty at all as she tried to cover her soft pudgy belly with her hands.
"Come in and close the door Candice. I'll thank you to call me Mr Dawson while we are in the office too. This is a
professional
environment."
Candice nodded and closed the door before sitting in the small office chair before his large desk. She tugged at her troublesome skirts, trying to maintain some semblance of modesty. It had slid high up her hips unveiling a lot of laddered pantyhose when she sat down.
Nicholas at home slash Mr Dawson at work could have been a poster-boy for Corporate America Monthly as he reclined in his executive leather swivel-chair and examined her critically. He was tall, blonde and ruggedly built with piercing cerulean eyes and a strong jaw. He wore a dark, slim cut tailor-fitted suit that emphasized his broad shoulders and fit figure to best effect and was
exactly
the worst type of manager Candice could never have wished for.
"Now Candice, I had initially passed your work-station to check on your progress with your quota. What, with all the time you have been taking off recently..." He began, leaning forward and steepling his hands together with his elbows resting on the mahogany desktop.
It was much larger and nicer than her small, cluttered desk with a top-of-the-line laptop set off to a side and signed baseball on a small brass stand in one corner. Set beside it was a framed photograph of his wife Jessica, daughter Britney and himself, all smiling on a beautiful beach somewhere with palm trees in the background.
Candice began to imagine how nice it would be to lay on those warm sands with the cool ocean waves lapping at her toes. Letting all her stress and worry wash out to sea like so much drifting flotsam...
"...all the valuable life-lessons and real-world skills that Pageant competitions teach our daughters but..."
Pageant?
Daughters?
Candice awoke from her brief daydream and blinked at her manager then stifled a frustrated sigh. Had her manager called her away from all the work that
he
had burdened
her
with, only to talk about a silly beauty contest? It
was
kinda important to Madeline though...
"Will you be there on Saturday,
Mister
Dawson?" She asked politely and stopped herself when she realized she was lazily twirling a lock of dark hair around her finger, teasing it down into the valley of her plush, new cleavage.
"What? Well... Yes." Nicholas said, sounding a bit derailed by her sudden interruption. His eyes had followed the movements of her hand and were staring at her chest. "I've been invited as a guest judge in fact but that is neither here nor there..."
That didn't seem right to Candice. That the father of one of the girls competing should be allowed to sit at the judges table. Wasn't that, like, one of those interesting conflicts?
She said as much, in as polite a way as possible.
"Jessica wanted an upstanding member of the business community on the panel to attract more attention to the event." Nicholas waved away her concerns, "But we're not here to discuss that. We are here to talk about your time-keeping, low entry numbers and..."
His eyes dropped back down to her tied up blouse, settling on where the points of her tight poking nipples were clearly outlined beneath.
"...
other
unprofessional behaviors."
Candice felt a little thrill run through her as she watched him stare, easing her shoulders back and thrusting her burgeoning breasts out a bit further. It made her fun filled-out boobs bounce gently and she wanted to giggle again.
She didn't like Mister Dawson very much. Certainly he was handsome with his fashionably dusting of stubble and thick, well styled hair but he was a compulsive micro-manager who cut costs and took credit for the achievements of those in his employ.
When Candice had lost her last job it had seemed heaven-sent when Nicholas's wife Jessica had told her she
might
be able to convince her husband to find her a position in
his
company--as if
he
owned the place rather than just being the State Manager in a backwater branch.
Candice had long since concluded that the job was just another means for Jessica; the crocodile Queen of New Billingtons small Pageant scene to sink her teeth into her--as a possible rival and unknown factor--and leverage for Nicholas to hold over her at every opportunity. Still he
was
attractive with those big arms and broad chest...
"I took a chance when hiring you, Candice." He recited predictably, meeting her eyes again with a stern expression. "There's a junior executive position opening in the head office soon and I can't have any of my people seen to be dragging their feet at a
pivotal
time like this."
Pivotal for
who?
Not her or any of her fellow data-monkeys, that was for damn sure. But she plastered on a big smile and took in a deep breath before sighing theatrically. It pulled his wandering eyes right back down again as she shrugged.
"Well, I guess I better get back to work then."
"See that you do. I want to see you at your desk, not off dress shopping or taking extended bathroom breaks." He said almost directly into her pendulous breasts when she deliberately bent forward to give him an eyeful as she stood up.
Gosh but men were so easy to toy with, all you needed were a nice set of cans! Was this what Candice had been missing out on all her life up until now?
"Sure thing,
Boss.
" She giggled.
Candice didn't make too much headway on her dreaded deadline before she clocked off at the end of the day but she wasn't too worried about it. She did make some progress on the cream puffs though--even as she tried to limit her intake of the sweet mouth-watering morsels--eating at least half a dozen by the end of business.
How could she not?
The day had been
sooo~
boring and the time had crawled by at a snail's pace. She had tried to do her job but the towers of shipping forms had seemed endless and she had so many distractions!
Take her hair for example, it felt
sooo~
soft and voluminous today. It flowed in long tresses like the finest cashmere through her fingers and since when did
she