Daddy’s Sweet Little by Scott Wylder

Chapter One

 

 

Nina

I was horny as hell, and it was a horrible time to be horny. The day was about as far from peaceful as it could be. It was the start of tourist season and even after preparing for it for the past six days, the whole thing still surprised me. A bus load of college students, who were heading to the lake, stopped for lunch at Georgia’s across the street. Then it seemed that, right after, every one of them needed to come inside and buy candy. Since Daddy’s Candy looked like a shop right out of a Willy Wonka movie, the whole place descended into chaos as kids just a little younger than me went crazy.

Kendra had trained me for six days, until I felt as if I was some kind of confectionary expert. I went to sleep dreaming about the differences between anise drops, horehound, divinity, fudge, and taffy. Now she was manning the scales for the line of partiers picking up bags from the bulk bins. Marcus Kendrick manned the register and the display counter where the chocolates could be purchased. Marcus was the ‘Daddy’ in ‘Daddy’s Candy’, even though he had no kids. I had met him for the first time the day before yesterday and he was the reason I was horny as hell.

My time was filled trying to get the shelves and bins restocked as fast as they emptied. I hadn’t been specifically instructed to do it, but I ended up standing at the door to keep any new college kids from entering. I set up a line and deputized a cute guy in a tee shirt, with a dolphin mascot that was holding a football. I told him to let one person in for every one that left and that I’d give him a free bag of candy if he managed it. It was entirely outside my authority, but remaining sane seemed a good enough reason for the slight overstep.

I felt a little nervous about setting up the queue the way I had, especially as it didn’t seem any slower at all inside, so I wasn’t even sure if anyone noticed. It required just as much work to keep the candy bars, suckers and gummy bears filled up, but at least it didn’t get worse. Of course, my gaze kept traveling back to Marcus, which didn’t do anything at all to relieve the arousal. My nipples were hard as hell and even through my bra; they seemed to poke visibly against my tee shirt.

Fortunately, the air in here was kept cold to keep from melting the candy. That meant just about every woman who walked in here in a tee shirt had her nipples on full display. At least I had horniness-camouflage. Nonetheless, I decided I’d have to wear a thicker bra or maybe even a sports bra under my shirt for my next shift. Marcus was so damned sexy! He had dark hair and dark eyes, and a very well-groomed dark beard. He also had muscles that seemed entirely out of place packaging raspberry truffles and pecan clusters into small white boxes.

I understood why Kendra told me not to worry about gaining weight. I could probably eat candy from the moment I got to the shop to the moment I left and still shed pounds with all the work. It went on for about an hour and then the college kid in the dolphin shirt poked his head in.

He smiled at me and said, “No more line.”

I waved him in; suddenly fully aware I’d done something I didn’t have the right to do. This candy wasn’t cheap, and I hadn’t even specified how big a bag he could have. I glanced at Marcus, preparing myself for a humiliating conversation.

He was looking at the guy, though. “Come on in, man,” he said. “Come up here.”

The boy walked in and he handed him a paper sack the size of a lunch bag. “Fill it up. On us, as agreed.” He pointed at a little box on the counter. “I made you an assortment of chocolates, too.”

So, he’d heard me. I suddenly felt as if there was a spotlight on me. No, not a spotlight, because spotlights were there to help celebrate someone who was talented. It felt more like a light from a police helicopter, or something else that kept someone visible at all times. As Marcus helped the college guy with his purchase, or in this case, his reward, I re-stocked licorice of all sorts. It was an old-fashioned kind of candy, to be so popular among the college kids. I felt a bit wistful, because I was the kind of girl who’d loved licorice of all sorts but I’d never gotten around to college.

Sure, I was only twenty-five. It wasn’t as if my life had passed me by or anything like that, but I certainly hadn’t expected my life to turn out the way it had. Daddy’s Candy was a very generous employer, and I made a great hourly rate. In fact, it was even generous. There was only seven months’ worth of work involved, though, so it worked out to be an average paying job in terms of annual salary. When I took the job, I knew I would either leave after seven months or learn to budget. I’d never been good at budgeting. Hell, I’d never really been good at anything.

Now, like some kind of an idiot, I’d risked the job I felt damned lucky to have by making a spur of the moment decision I had no authority to make! I hoped the guy with the dolphin tee shirt was an easy customer, so it wouldn’t highlight what I’d done. At the same time, I hoped he took forever, so it would delay the confrontation with Marcus. I imagined he could fire me over it, but I thought it was more likely he would just make me pay for the candy or – even likelier – he would give me a warning.

Then he’d watch me! Those helicopters would be circling me forever, now. What the hell was I thinking?

“That was a stroke of brilliance,” I heard from behind me.

“I know, right?” I said bitterly. I couldn’t believe how… Wait! I turned around and saw Marcus behind me. “I’m sorry,” I said. “What?”

“What you did setting up a line like that. Brilliant. As long as I’ve been in business it never occurred to me to set up a queue. That rush should have left this place devastated but everyone was happy. Plus, since there wasn’t as big a crowd inside, people didn’t take candy off the shelves, get tired of waiting, and just leave it everywhere. It will take no time to get ready for the next rush. Great job.” He turned to Kendra and said, “I just might have you take over the hiring altogether.”

He turned and walked away and I stared after him, completely stunned. He… he liked me. Well, he liked my decision, even though I didn’t have explicit permission to do what I had done… He’d liked it.

I looked at Kendra and she smiled and blew me a kiss. I laughed.

She came over and said, “I’ve worked here a long time, and that was the best first rush of the season ever. We’re never completely prepared for it. You show up, and suddenly everything’s peachy perfect.”

I blushed and said, “I owe it all to the girl who trained me.”

She smiled and got back to refilling the candy bins that had gotten low. I went back to re-stocking also, but I still felt as if there was a light on me, but now it was the good kind.

God, if I was horny for Marcus before; I felt desperate for him now!