MAD MEN, STRONGER WOMAN Part 2 by demented20 - written for DTM / Amy's Conquest *** The Below is an extended segment from this story, written for us by the Incredibly skilled demented20, whose other stories you can read right here on the Diana The Valkyrie website. For the Full Story of "Mad Men, Stronger Woman (Part 2)", please visit our Member's Section at Amy's Conquest (www.amysconquest.com), or purchase it on its own on our AC site. Thanks all, and as always, hope you Enjoy! *** ******************** Lester Darby tossed and turned in his bed before awaking ahead of his alarm clock's ring. He opened his eyes, but the images didn't leave him. He saw flashes of her massive peaking biceps or memories of her prodigious chest expanding like it was never going to stop. Pam's naked, straining body seemed to float above him as he stared upward at the ceiling with unblinking eyes, flexing like it was never going to stop. It was so big that it filled his field of view with pulsing, striated muscle. Then he remembered the sounds of rending steel and it made his cock leap to attention beneath the sheets. Dots of sweat formed on his forehead as he remembered the most intense moments of Pam's display of utter dominance. Then he felt her body against his, her bulging muscles forcing his comparatively soft body to shift and form around hers. Her abdominal muscles had left corresponding bruises on his body just from the pressure of their flexing. She crushed him until his bones had been on the verge of snapping and she twisted him until his muscles became useless to put up even feeble resistance. Despite all of that, Lester longed to feel her lips against his again and to feel her unyielding body again, because that one night had been the most terrifying, best thing that had ever happened to him. He got out of bed and ambled towards the bathroom working out the hitch in his gate that he still had from Pam's night of pleasure. Her pussy had nearly broken his pelvis with its strength alone, like it was trying to suck his entire body into it. Even though his cock had been as hard as it had ever been, it hadn't been nearly enough to satisfy Pam. He splashed some water on his face and looked into the mirror, realizing that his whole life was different now because he was different. She'd opened his eyes to the error of his ways, and to muscle too. Pam was the most amazing woman he'd ever met, but to her he was probably just a silly man who had to be taught a lesson. Now that the lesson had been received, she probably wouldn't have any more to do with him. Lester drove to work in his new sports car, but he hadn't turned the other one back in to the dealer. For now he kept it in his garage, looking at the crushed A pillar and the peeled back roof, remembering how the steel roof had just been an appetizer for Pam's mighty arms. He pushed all admiration for her way down inside when he opened the door and there she was in the flesh, sitting behind her desk with a smile on her beautiful face. "Good morning, sir", she said as if she hadn't provided him with the most intense night of his life. "Morning", he replied in kind because that's obviously how she wanted things to be. Everything was different now though. In one short night Pam had extinguished that all consuming anger that he'd carried around most of his adult life. That didn't mean that he'd suddenly become a pushover, far from it, but he no longer felt the need to tear a person to pieces when they did something wrong. He still demanded near perfection from his employees, he just had a new way of trying to get it out of them. His new, better, nature was about to be put to its first real test though. Mike had accepted Lester's offer to return to the company and today was his first day back. The whole fight was foolish looking back on it. Mike had come in to protect Pam, but she could have easily protected herself. Lester ended up knocking Mike out and setting in motion the demise of the old Lester Darby. Mike smiled as Carlton reached out and held the door for him since his hands were full. "Good to see you again", Carlton said as Mike walked past him holding a box full of items from his office. "I didn't think I'd ever be back here", Mike confided. "I wonder what changed Lester's mind." "Beats me", Carlton said and turned towards his desk. Mike saw Pam's empty desk and wondered if she might not work there anymore, but then he saw her name plate. He gave a shrug and turned down the hall. He'd only made it halfway when a man, who looked a lot like Lester, stepped up and extended his hand. "Thanks for coming back", Lester said as Mike slowly put the boxes down and shook his hand. Mike felt like he was entering some sort of alternate reality, one where Lester wasn't an overriding bastard. It must be real though because everyone didn't act like they were walking on land mines when he was around any more. They were still on eggshells, but that was a clear upgrade. Late in the afternoon Mike was at his desk, trying to catch up on work that hadn't been done when there was a soft knock at the door. He looked up to see Pam standing there in one of her figure caressing dresses. Her flaming locks were pulled to the side in a style some model was making popular these days. Mike had always felt an attraction to Pam, but with her standing there the attraction was like the pull of an electro-magnet. He'd barely talked to her, and they hardly knew each other, but in that moment, every bit of him existed only for her. She could have told him to do anything, and he'd have done it. Instead, she smiled and asked, "Can I come in?" "Sure", he said with a suddenly raspy voice. He cleared his throat and smiled back. "I missed you when you returned", she announced as she approached his desk. "I'm glad you're back." "It's nice to be back. Just between you and me, it's not that easy to find a job on short notice that pays this well." "That's the reason I wanted to come", Pam began then looked back to the hall before approaching his desk. Mike couldn't help but inhale the wonderful scent of her perfume. She put her hands on the top and leaned towards him. Her arms funnelled her massive breasts forward pressing them hard against the struggling fabric, outlining the shape clearly. "I never got a chance to thank you for coming to my rescue when Lester was angry." "You're welcome", he said, but his eyes never left her chest. "It was nothing." "Oh it was something", Pam said in a quieter voice. "You were my knight in shining armor." Pam paused and looked over her shoulder before looking back to Mike. "And I'll never forget it." She turned and strutted out of his office. Mike still didn't think he deserved special attention for what he'd done, but he'd take it. He looked off into the distance for a while after she'd walked out, thinking back over his life and realizing with no small amount of wonder that Pam was probably the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen and here she was working in the same place as him. Days passed and Mike became convinced that Lester's tirades really were a thing of the past like he said they were. He didn't bluster any more, or belittle employees either. All the fire hadn't gone out of him though. The entire office heard Lester tear into a competitor who was trying to undercut a deal and steal a client. Usually a paint blistering conversation like that would get Lester worked up all day long, but after hanging up he'd called Suzie in and dictated a letter to the client as if the call hadn't happened. It really was a new Lester. Mike asked around the office for clues as to what had happened. No one had an answer. He went from person to person trying to sound off hand about his questions, he saved Pam for last. If she didn't have the answer then no one would. He kept an eye on her, looking for an opportunity to talk to her. Mike wasn't the only one with eyes on Pam. She came to work in those concealing dresses, but Lester knew what was underneath. Everyone else saw her amazing curves, but he knew that they were backed by unyielding muscle. He wished that she would come in his office and make him worship every inch of her body. Some days it took every bit of Lester's self control to not go out to her desk and begin worshipping her body even if every employee saw. By this point he wouldn't have cared. One morning Pam had strolled by his open office door, turned to look at him and smiled as she'd walked by. That momentary act and the memory of her wonderful body had conspired to give Lester an erection so hard that he was sure he could have fucked a hole through plate steel. He knew his obsession with her was unhealthy, so instead of heading home to lament his condition, he headed to a trendy night spot not far from home. The big place was packed. He looked past the tables to the dance floor, but set his sights on the bar. He found an empty spot and ordered a beer from the tap, drinking it quickly in an effort to stop the swirling thoughts in his brain. Pam observed Lester too as time went on, wondering if he was going to revert to his old ways and become a tyrant again, but it hadn't happened yet. One day she left work early and took the subway to Queens to look in on her old boss Roderick. It had been easy to use the old ladders and climb to the roof and look down on him through the skylight. She saw at once that his playground area was gone. The workout equipment was there, but the hot tub, mirrors, and other fun stuff were gone. She could tell from the time that she watched him interact with his new assistant and talk on the phone that he too was a changed man. All the little boy silliness was gone. It was right then that an idea popped into her head. She smiled broadly then climbed down off the roof. When she got home, she'd barely closed the door when she picked up the phone. "Hey Mom, could you make me some more outfits? No, the old ones don't fit any more. Yeah, I've gotten too big. No not fat!", she explained with some exasperation. "I'll just take some vacation and come down. Yes, it'll be nice to see y'all too." The day that Mike was going to talk to Pam, she was gone on vacation. He knew he'd have to wait a while longer. Lester rarely cared about work schedules, but he looked this time to see how long Pam was going to be gone. He immediately felt a little loss when he saw her empty desk. Even though he firmly stuck to her rules about pretending nothing had happened that night in his house, he looked for Pam every day. The rest of the employees missed her sunny disposition, but for Lester it was much more than that. He ended up at the same nightspot again. This time he decided to try something stiffer than beer, and when the vodka had kicked in, he even made his way to the dance floor. It wasn't that Lester could dance well, but it might be fun to blow off a little steam in a way that didn't evolve punching employees in the face. He was handsome enough for some girls to notice even if he was a bit older than most of the other guys on the dance floor. He traded a couple of dance partners with a couple of other guys and they joined into a loose group. Lester's jacket came off by the second song and by the fourth his alcohol buzz was wearing off. He didn't have to make his way to the bar though. This place had roving waitresses. Lester motioned one over. She was a short little wisp of a girl, barely 5' 2" tall, and thin like a fence picket. Her face was all angles but attractive nonetheless. "Six shots of vodka for me and my friends here", Lester began then thought better of it. "Bring me a bottle instead ... something good and six glasses." "Right away, sir", the waitress said then turned towards the bar. She barely made it ten feet before a group of hotshot Wall Street traders stopped her and started giving her an order. Lester felt his blood begin to heat up. He'd been like them once, young, just out of college with more money than their parents. In fifteen years they'd get to where he was in life. Right then all he wanted was his vodka, but these idiots were holding up the show. He was about to go over to them when the waitress smiled, nodded her head at them and continued on her way. Another song started up and Lester didn't think about the delay in his vodka. He was totally into the girl dancing in front of him until out of the corner of his eye he saw a serving tray being held at about his eye level that was completely covered with bottles and glasses. That tray had to weigh a more than fifty pounds with all the full bottles sitting on top of it. Lester expected to see a big masculine hand coming, but instead he saw dainty little fingers bent a little under the strain of holding up all that weight with just the tips of those fingers. She was too short to see from behind the crowd on the dance floor, but then the waitress appeared holding up all of that booze, wine, and glasses as if it was nothing at all. She breezed between dancers with well practiced ease as she approached the Wall Street guys. Lester thought she was going to stop there to unload the bulk of her tray, but she continued right past them to he and his group. "Sorry for the delay, sir", she said when she standing right in front of him, but Lester couldn't reply. His eyes left her face and travelled down to the arm that was so effortlessly supporting that loaded tray. Her shoulder looked like it belonged on a person more than twice her size. It bulged beneath the black material of her uniform blouse. He could even make out the muscular fingers that made up the block of muscle. Then he saw her bicep practically leaping through the sleeve. It was so out of place on this rail thin waitress, bulbous and rock solid at the same time. He might have stood there and stared at that bicep for an hour if one of his group hadn't shouted, "Oh the vodka's here!" Lester snapped back to himself and reached into his pocket and pulled out a 20. "The rest is yours", he told her in an offhand manner and took the bottle from the tray, lightening her load just slightly. "Thanks", she said and smiled before turning to the more rowdy Wall Street crowd. The group downed their bottle of vodka and ordered another. This time though there was a different waitress. That didn't matter because she'd already given Lester all he needed for that night. His cock was like a diamond hard missile. He took that girl he'd been dancing with back to his house on the Upper East Side and screwed her like she'd never been screwed before. The entire time he'd imagined the flexing mound under that waitress' sleeve while trying to channel just a little of the vigor that Pam had displayed. Lester was too dedicated a businessman to go out every night like some college kid, but he made it to a club or lounge about two or three times a week depending on how busy he was. It was like some long dormant part of his mind had awakened. He wasn't a playboy who took girls home every time he went out, but he was making some waves on the scene. It wasn't long before he saw other businessmen his age out enjoying themselves. He got invited to swanky private parties all over town, and people always remarked that they'd thought that he was a button down workaholic. They said that if they'd known how fun he was that they'd have invited him ages ago. Lester never told them that they were seeing the new him. The old him had been a miserable ass, no fun to be around at all. He also didn't tell them that this new him was all because one night he'd been attacked and assaulted by a muscular angel. After a long time thinking about it Mike went up to Pam. She'd finished typing something and was grabbing her jacket for a trip out for lunch when he approached. "Hey", he said and she looked up at him eyes like polished jade. It made his mind momentarily slip track, but he recovered quickly. "There's this place down by the Battery that I heard is terrific. Would you like to join me? My treat." Pam was caught off guard, and she wondered if it showed on her face. It didn't. "Sure", she said simply and the two of them walked out together. Lester saw the short exchange from his office and didn't know how to feel. Pam was his ultimate woman, and now some other guy was about to find out what he already knew. Hopefully it would turn out better for Mike than it had for him. Mike's first lunch date with Pam had been a success. She was way more than a pretty face, witty, smart, surprisingly combative and insightful too. She was easy going but the more he talked to her the more he found a hard edge to Pam that kept him on his toes. She made him forget to ask a single question about Lester. That lunch became a dinner date the next night. It was wonderful, and the both decided to try it again. Mike walked Pam to her apartment after a great night out. She was just standing there and they were talking when he thought to himself 'what the hell', and he kissed her. She didn't pull away, instead pressed her lips against his with passionate fervour. She must have wanted this as much as he did. He pulled away suddenly though, looking down at Pam's flushed face, puckered lips and half closed eyes knowing that she'd have kept going if he hadn't stopped. It was perfect. He shoved his hands into his pockets and started down the hall. "I'll see you", he called as he made it to the stairs. Pam's smile kept getting bigger. "That bastard", she chuckled and opened the door. Mike wasn't bold enough to call he and Pam an item, but they were spending a lot of time together. She told him that instead of going out, she was going to cook him a real Southern meal. Mike was astounded that this wonderful woman could also cook, but she could. They were sitting across from each other at Mike's little kitchen table when he finally got around to asking Pam about Lester. "It was you wasn't it", Mike asked after finishing off another of Pam's biscuits. "What was me?" "I don't know how you did it, but I just know that you're the one who changed Lester", Mike said like a detective figuring out a clue. Pam just chuckled. "I never said I wasn't." "So you're admitting to it?", he asked smiling. "Of course I will", Pam said like it was nothing at all. "You're just the first one to ever ask me. Now we both know what you're next question is going to be." "How?", Mike asked, leaning in and getting more intrigued. Pam's smile was a little different this time, less sweet and more dangerous. "I showed Lester how horrible he made other people feel, then I took it up about ten notches, and then I had a little fun for myself", she replied like she was giving the recipe to those wonderful biscuits. "I don't understand", Mike began with a frown. "How'd you do all that?" Pam stood up held her hand out for Mike to join her. She walked with him towards the living room. She kissed him before the two of them sat down on the couch. In an instant they were all over each other. "So", Mike managed between deep kisses. "How did you do all that stuff to Lester?" "Because I'm strong Mike, incredibly strong. And I have a body like he'd never seen." She saw the look on Mike's face and pulled away. He had her hot too so she took a moment to gather herself before she stood up. "I hope you're not easily overwhelmed because I can be a lot to handle at first sight", she warned and began unfastening her dress. She pulled it down off of her broad shoulders and immediately Mike saw the changing shapes of her working deltoids and a frown came to his face. She held the dress against her chest with her right arm while pulling her left arm out. This time Mike gasped. He'd never seen an arm so defined, and she wasn't flexing it at all. She switched hands to keep her dress demurely against her chest and freed her right arm from its prison. It was as awesomely muscled as the other. She rolled her shoulders forward and backwards causing the trapezius muscles to rise and spread. Her entire upper body seemed to unfurl like a flag in the breeze after coming out of the dress. "Oh, that is so much better. I hate keeping myself all cooped up", Pam said after a deep breath then looked at Mike who sat stunned. She stepped closer, leaning down and letting her dress fall a bit so the tops of her breasts showed. Mike's mouth had suddenly gone dry. He noticed for the first time that Pam wasn't wearing a bra. How in the world could breasts so large stay so perfectly shaped on their own? Then he noticed that just like her arms, her chest was packed with muscle too, so much muscle that they held her breast with gravity defying perfection. She hadn't shown the goods though. She was letting Mike stew for a while. "Nothing to say?", she teased. "Maybe you want to see a little more." Instead of pulling her arm from across her chest, she pulled up the hem of her dress, revealing calves the likes of which Mike had never seen. He'd thought that his heart was racing before, but now it speeding out of control, and all he was seeing was her shoulders and lower legs. She turned and began pulling down her dress, swaying her body from side to side as she peeled it off, revealing her broad back tapering and tapering and tapering down to her small waist before she had to push a bit causing her triceps to flex, just a little, as the dress stretched to go over her hips. The smooth skin of her back churned like choppy seas as the muscles beneath came alive. From the small of her back to the base of her neck an intricate landscape formed as her hips continued to move side to side. She let the dress fall around her high heels and stood there for a moment. She looked back over her shoulder, thick oblique muscles and abdominals crunching as she did so. She smiled, somewhat coyly at Mike's astonished face. He looked like he couldn't think, like he couldn't react at all to what he was seeing. His brain was completely overloaded. Pam's coy smile turned slightly devilish as she decided to turn up the heat. She opened her arms and revealed her naked body to Mike then glanced at his crotch, expecting to see the same tenting that she saw with every other guy. The curiosity showed on her face then she grabbed her massive tits and smashed them together making mile deep cleavage. Mike let out a little groan and she hadn't even touched him. She extended her tongue and wet her hardening nipples. Mike's eyes darted every which way as he witnessed the best show of his entire life. Every inch of her was stuffed with big luscious iron hard muscle, all with that intoxicating shape, and those tits. Mike had never felt a sensation like he was experiencing. Pam was still confused though as she squeezed her breast harder, making her biceps flex just a little bit. Mike still didn't seem to have an erection, then she looked a little further down and this time her eyes grew large. Something was trying to leverage itself inside of Mike's right pant leg and instantly Pam's might pussy began to leak like a broken faucet. She stepped closer and the leviathan inside Mike's pants stirred. Pam licked her lips and decided to see if this was real of if her mind was playing tricks. She stepped up to Mike, close enough for him to feel the heat radiating off of her mighty body, then she leaned closer. Her gravity shaming breasts hung inches from his face, but he knew better than to touch them. The time for him to be take-charge was over. Pam was in control now. She tore his eyes away from her chest without a word as she held her arm in front of his face. It was so big and perfectly muscled just sitting there. Then she curled her arm and flexed. Muscles erupted from every corner and crevice building upon one another. Twin muscle peaks raced each higher as hard knife edged striations appeared from her elbow to her shoulders. Her arm grew thicker as the peaks grew higher. Her bicep pulsed as it tightened until settling into a mountain of female beef the likes of which Mike didn't know could exist. Mike had been overwhelmed before, now his face looked like he was catatonic. His body could react though. As his unblinking eyes stared at the mightiest muscle he'd ever see, Pam heard ripping sounds coming from down below. She looked down and saw Mike's cock as it ripped through his pants. Pam had wanted to tease Mike a bit and show him more of her body, but that cock was a challenge. The steady drip from her cunt became a torrent as she eyed that cock. She gripped it with two hands and stood over him. The cock jerked as her juices dropped down to the head. Mike shuddered and his face when ghostly white as his cock grew impossibly bigger and harder. Pam couldn't wait any more. Her pussy ached for a cock that might be able to fill it up. She lowered herself onto the cockhead and took nine inches of cock in immediately. Mike's groan became a growl, as she lowered herself, sliding more of his cock into her furnace. Pam's mighty body quaked and her insatiable pussy actually recoiled at accepting more, but there was more to be had. Mike had never felt any sensation approaching this. There were no limits when dealing with Pam. He felt like he wanted to faint, but her body was so impossible that he couldn't look away, even to pass out. Pam still had more to go, and it seemed so did Mike. His cock wasn't even finished. It felt like she was sitting on a thickening flagpole, and she loved every inch of it. When her pussy finally swallowed all of Mike's cock, his fingers curled up like claws and he started bucking his hips like a rodeo bull, but he couldn't begin to move his cock in or out. He tried and tried though, and she just shook her head. "Just stop", she urged in a breathy voice then leaned forward, placing her fists against the cushions. Triceps blasted outward as she raised her body up that cock. "You're way too weak", she said. "Just sit there and enjoy this. I know I'm about to", she declared and started fucking that cock like a freight train gaining speed. "No woman's ever ... ", Mike tried to speak as Pam picked up speed. "Shhh", she urged and gripped the back of the sofa as she leaned forward. Wood fibers crackled and split beneath her fingers as she squeezed. Her breathing quickened and sweat dotted Pam's forehead as every stroke on Mike's cock began humbling her once invincible puss. "Ohhhh", she moaned and rolled her head around her shoulders before dropping her chin to her thickly muscled chest. Her mane of red hair covered Mike's face, but he was too lost in her passion to even blow the strands out of the way. They enveloped his face the way her body enveloped his. Then she threw her head back and the first of several back to back orgasms hit Pam without warning. Already ripped muscle became shredded to a whole other level and she wasn't even flexing. Then suddenly, she did flex, and Mike thought he was going to have a heart attack. She held her arms out as she screamed in pure ecstasy at the ceiling. She curled her arms and hit the hardest double biceps flex of her entire life. Her entire upper body expanded like a she was trying to flex out of her own skin, but her biceps and triceps expansion dwarfed the rest. Big huge boulder sized biceps flooded the space between her burgeoning delts and the immoveable wall of her thickening forearms. They had nowhere to go but up, and up they went, higher, thicker and more shredded than a side of beef forced through a blender. Mike's trip through ecstasy took a detour through agony as Pam's cunt squeezed. A normal cock might have been crushed flat, and even Mike's oversized erection seemed moments from suffering the same fate. Pam's latest orgasm ebbed and she started riding that big cock again. Her triceps flared. Her abdominal wall undulated, and her hip flexors looked like jungle thickets as she slammed that big cock, building herself towards another orgasm. Mike's time ran out first. His first blast of cum actually lifted her entire body several inches up that shaft. The third and fourth blast were just as powerful. Her pussy was so tight that nothing could escape, not yet. Pam looked down and her narrowed eyes opened wide as she watched her rock hard abs bulge. Mike's body jittered and he broke out in a cold sweat as he filled Pam until she looked pregnant. Pam had never seen or felt anything like this at all. Her hands went to her belly as Mike kept going, like he was manufacturing the stuff. Then she flexed her abs as hard as she could. The bricks split and broke up into sliced up vascular chunks. She forced her abs flat and increased the pressure inside her until it felt like things began to boil. The first dribbles of cum were forced from Pam's cunt, and then her own juices began to flow. She fell forward onto a barely conscious Mike, being careful not to smother him with her heaving breasts. "Almost", she whispered into his ear then stood up. For some time after their encounter, Mike had to be the happiest man on the planet. He tried to hide it, and use other things to explain it, but every time he looked at Pam it was possible to see his heart beating through his chest. Lester wondered if Mike had figured out or not that he'd never be the same after his night with Pam. Other women were pale imitations of her. His only hope was that she'd decide to keep him around. After work, Lester went to his favorite spot with Pam and that lucky bastard Mike still on his mind as he found a spot at the bar. "How ya doin' Mr. Darby", the bartender said before Lester had even settled. "Want the usual?" "Not today Mack. Give me a Long Island Iced Tea." "One of my specialities. Coming right up", Mack said and grabbed a glass. While waiting for his drink, Lester looked around, surveying the club, wondering why he'd allowed himself to miss this part of life for so long. He'd worked and fussed and been alone for so long that it made him sick to think of how he'd been only a few months earlier. He saw some of the usuals sitting in booths for high rollers, entertaining some ladies, but he wasn't going to join them. Lester had never thought of himself as a wealthy man even though he was. He was thinking about wasted time, and it seemed like she'd appeared out of nowhere. The little waitress from a few weeks earlier came out of the crowd walking right towards him with her empty tray banging against her leg while she shoved some folded money into her bra. She leaned against the polished black wood bar and got onto her tip toes to look over. Lester's eyes couldn't help but sweep down her body to notice her calves flexing big inside the tight trouser legs of her uniform. Just like her biceps, her calves looked like they belonged on a much bigger body. His mouth began to water as his mind wondered what those muscles would feel like. She called for Mack and lifted higher up, adding a couple of inches to her diminutive height and causing her calves to stress the stitches of her uniform. Lester's brain and eyes couldn't quite reconcile her thin little body and the muscles he saw. "Hey a bunch of guys in the back want beer ... sixteen mugs worth", she said and Mack gave a nod. She turned around and leaned her elbows against the bar as she waited. Her eyes crossed Lester, but didn't stop. There was no way a waitress in a busy place like this would remember him. He could have left it at that, but he wasn't going to. "I remember you", he said and motioned towards her. "Oh yeah?", she asked with a grin that warmed her chiselled features. "Wait ... vodka and six glasses?" "Wow", Lester exclaimed. "You make an impression, but I didn't think I made much of one", he said honestly. She laughed, and tossed her head back, a few strands of her blonde hair coming loose to brush against the bar. "You have a wonderful head of hair", she replied. "I always remember a guy with great hair." This time Lester laughed. "Irish blood comes in handy from time to time", he quipped and she laughed again. "Drinks up", Mack broke up the short conversation. Lester smiled as if nothing special was happening as he watched the little waitress load all those mugs onto a bigger tray and head towards the booths at the back of the club. A grown man would have struggled to carry that much with one hand, but to this waitress it looked like she wasn't carrying anything at all. Lester shook his head, finished his drink and put the glass on the bar. "Give me another." She came back to the bar, stuffing more bills into her bra. Lester grinned when he noticed that one side of her chest was noticeably larger than the other. "What is it? Do I have something on my face?", the waitress asked as she walked past Lester to get a bartender's attention. "You're right handed", Lester said. "So are most people", she shot back with a little sass. "Well, I'm just saying it because you might want to balance out which side of your shirt you stuff your money into." Her face turned a little red. After a moment, she laughed too. "That's probably good advice", she allowed. "Trust me", Lester began. "Where I grew up, I kept two wallets, one in my pocket for suckers and the other in my shoe that had my money in it. Sometimes the streeties would figure it out and I'd have to fight to keep what was mine. I wouldn't want you to have to fight." "Oh, I'd have pegged you for one of the trust fund kids who come in here and pay my rent." Lester gave a chortle. "My Dad trusted me with his meat clever from time to time, if that's what you mean." She nodded and twisted up her mouth a little. "Sometimes I get 'em wrong I guess", she admitted. "Lester", he said and extended his hand. "Candace", she replied with a smile. "But my friends call me Candi." "Well Candi, don't beat yourself up too much about it. I got something wrong about you too." "Oh what's that?" "I wouldn't think that you couldn't lift an ant, but the way you handle those trays ... " "You mean like this?", she asked and hefted a tray full of beer mugs that looked like it weighed half as much as she did. She held it at her eye level with just the tips of her fingers. Even though he was trying to be cool, she saw his eyes follow the lines of her expanding bicep and the shape of currently massive front deltoid. He looked like he was seeing an extraterrestrial and it showed on his face. Candi decided to give him just a bit more so she slowly removed finger after finger until she held up a tray full of beer with just one, unbending finger. Lester nearly dropped his glass and his eyes looked ready to leap out of his head. She gave him a wink before turning towards the booths behind the dance floor. "Nice to meet you Les", she called back before disappearing into the crowd. After a full minute Lester shook his head. "Wow", he uttered then ordered another drink. He stood there for a moment, watching then got a crooked smile on his face and pulled out a fifty dollar bill to pay for his drinks and a tip for Mack before leaving. Lester went back to the club the next weekend, but not at his usual hour. He waited until the early morning. He was leaning against a street sign when a side door opened. The muffled thump of music became loud. Candi stepped out and looked back over her shoulder waiving goodbye to a couple of waitresses before stepping out in the alley. "I hope you don't mind if I join you", Lester called after she'd taken a couple of steps. Candi didn't turn quickly, or flinch. She just stopped walking. "I didn't see you in the place tonight. I thought I'd scared you away." Lester heard the amusement in her tone, but a question too. He stood up straight, but didn't approach too closely. "I've wanted to ask you out for a week, but you're always so busy here. So I figured I'd wait until you got off to try my luck." "So are we on a date now?", she asked with a little grin. Lester chuckled. "Of course we are. We're a regular item now don't ya know." She laughed. "So where are you taking me at 3 o'clock in the morning?" "Wherever you normally go when your shift ends. I know you've got a spot. No way you go straight home after work." Candi looked at him for a moment then shrugged. After a train ride to New Jersey and some walking, Lester pushed open the door to a joint near the docks. Cigar and cigarette smoke hit him as soon as he walked inside. Stale beer and Perry Cuomo on the jukebox finished the mood of the place. It was pretty big inside with some pool tables off to one side and some little square tables near the wall opposite the jukebox. A dozen conversations were going on all at once between people in little groups. None of them paid attention when the door opened, but the guy behind the counter looked up when Candi walked in. "Steak and eggs", Joey called to the short order cook behind the double swinging door. He set a just opened bottle of ice cold beer on the counter that Candi walked over to retrieve while she waited on her food. "Hey, let me get a beer for my friend here too", she said. "Oh. I didn't know you two were together", Joey said as he opened the cooler. She reached out for the beer, but Lester beat her hand to it. "You serve people all night long. I think I can get this one myself", he said and watched her expression change. "You hungry?", she asked after they'd sat down at one of the little tables. "Nah", Lester said and took a drink from the bottle. "So here we are. I'm unwinding. What about you?" Lester looked down at the table and smiled. "I have been wound tight for a long time, and I'm still a work in progress." "Order up!", the cook called. Joey put the plate on the counter and Candi started to rise. Lester gave her a look and went to get her plate. "Smells good", he observed as he set it down in front of her. She was a little embarrassed to be eating while he wasn't, but she was too hungry to worry about it for long. She grabbed the fork and the knife and dug in. Candi wasn't very chatty. She seemed to have opened up to Lester a bit though, and before long he had her laughing. "So my roommate climbs up the ladder to the top of the boxcar to get his watch", Les continued his story after retrieving his fourth beer of the evening. "What happened then?", Candi asked after a long pull her third beer of the night. "Well I tried to get him down cause I saw the engineer go in the train. Next thing I know, the train starts moving. I tried to get to him and he tried to climb down, but that guy must have put the pedal to the metal cause it pulled away fast. I saw him sit down and put his head in his hands. The next day he calls me from Toledo." Candi nearly spit out her beer, barely swallowing before laughing, and not the sexy, playful one that she used at her job, but her real, high pitched, girly laugh. "And you didn't even want to go to college", she said with a big grin on her face. "It had its moments", he admitted then looked over at a group of guys getting ready to leave, opening up one of the pool tables. "You play?", Lester asked and stood up. The other people in the place grinned at the new guy. Candi had played every regular at one time or another. She'd beaten them all, and taken their money. This new guy was about to get run. "Want to put a little on it?", Candi asked as innocently as she could. Lester smiled at her attempt at being coy. "Well, pull some of that cabbage from your hiding place little mama and lay it down." Candi put a twenty on the half wall and set her beer on it while Les did the same. From the break Candi could tell that Lester was a good player, but she didn't look worried. She waited patiently for him to miss then proceeded to clear the table. She put the forty dollars under a new bottle of beer and looked over at Lester who racked the balls. She won the next game and the next one before Lester had a real chance to beat her. She had almost two hundred of Lester's dollar sitting under her fifth beer, and he was making a run to win it back. She stood at the head of the table watching with her cue stick planted on the floor as two balls dropped in quick succession as Lester heated up. She gasped in disappointment after Lester made a two rail shot to down a ball. He stood there lining up for the final shot. It was tricky, but after his last shot Lester was confident that he could make it. He gave a glance back to Candi to gloat a little as he pulled his stick back. He hit the cue ball perfectly. He watched it roll slowly towards its target. He could almost feel the cash back in his hand until he heard the creaking of straining wood and the pops of cast metal breaking through layer upon layer of shellac. The ball began to veer off course. When Lester looked back over his shoulder, all the blood drained from his head. Candi's face flushed pink and her smiling lips quivered a little. Veins and arteries pressed to the surface of her skin, even tiny little capillaries showed through the material of her black uniform top. Lester's eyes looked like they would pop out of his suddenly perspiring head. Thick branching veins ran along her shoulders and down to biceps that defied all Lester's notions of logic. Her biceps would have looked big on a serious bodybuilding man and they looked ludicrously sexy and out of place on Candi's thin little body. He could see the craggy sliced up dual headed bicep peaks threatening to pop through her sleeves as she lifted the pool table even higher, making all the balls run towards the bottom rail. That table had to weigh half a ton and when she saw Lester's face, she curled the weight even higher. Lester was practically drooling as he watched her sleeves fill up, getting tighter and tighter around her still expanding biceps. He thought he had seen Candi's strength when she'd moved drinks around the club, but that hadn't even been a fraction of a fraction of her real strength. He could tell that this wasn't easy for her, but she wasn't straining either. To prove that point, she tossed her head back and laughed. "Tilt!", the tiny muscle bound waitress yelled as she held the table at chest level. The other patrons laughed too and pointed at Lester. "Don't break my tables!", Joey called from behind the counter. "I'm putting it down", she yelled back and lowered it slowly. Lester felt like he was floating on a cloud as the pool table legs touched back to their indentions on the floor. "I can't believe you did that", he managed to say, his voice quivering as Candi lifted the beer bottle and folded the money. "You were actually trying to win", she said with a smirk. "I couldn't have that." Lester looked around the room at the other patrons to see if any of them had the same look on their faces that he was sure he had on his, but while what Candi had just done was the topic of conversation, he realized quickly that this wasn't the first time they'd seen what she could do. The image kept rolling over inside Lester's head and it was driving him crazy. *** Continued in our Amy's Conquest (www.amysconquest.com) Exclusive, Members Only, Text Stories Section OR purchase it individually with our site's Newly Updated Format. ***