Chapter Five
The sun peeked through the curtain of the window and rested on the
prone figure sleeping in the bed. Angel
warmed by the sun reached out for Buffy but felt nothing but air. He quickly lifted his head and looked at the
empty place in the bed then looked around the room, she wasn’t there.
“Buffy?” he called out. He
was just about to get up and look around for her when he spotted the note on
the table.
Angel,
I’m not one for
goodbyes so I left this note instead.
I had a great
time last night, look me up if you ever
want to go for
another ride!”
Buffy (555-2624)
That was it? That’s all
she had to say? Angel scratched his
head he was annoyed that she left so early. They could have had a pleasurable
morning romp.
The sound of the phone ringing broke the silence of the room he
reached over to answer it hoping that maybe it was her. “Hello”
“Hey peaches have a good time last night?” The voice of one very amused Spike came
across the line. Angel could see the
smirk on his face and the glint in his eye. “None of your business, William!”
“It sounds like someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this
morning. What’s a matter Blondie not as good as you thought?” Angel scowled in to the phone “Shut up! What you want?”
“Ok I’ll let it rest till you’ve had your coffee. I’m going to the gym you want to meet me
there? We can take turns punching the
shit out of each other.” Angel annoyed
that he had woken up alone found the suggestion of pounding into someone a very
good idea.
“Yeah sure what time?”
Then he remembered he left his car at the Whiskey “Shit!” “What?”
“I left my car at the Whiskey last night, you’ll have to pick me
up”
Spike chuckled “So she kept her promise eh? You got to take her
for a long ride?”
Angel could picture him leering in to the phone. “Spike don’t be a perv, just pick me up in
twenty?” “Yeah alright.” He hung up the phone before Spike could say
anything else.
Laying back down on the bed he breathed in deeply and smelt
nothing but her, vanilla and strawberries.
God if he didn’t get up now he would spend all day smelling his bed
sheets. So reluctantly he got up and went into the shower.
Standing in the stall he leaned his palms against the tiled wall
and let the warm water run down his back.
God he couldn’t stop thinking about last night. How responsive she was to his every touch,
the breathy sounds that she made just before she came and how those sounds made
him even harder and more desperate to claim her.
He knocked his head against the wall don’t do this to yourself!
She’s just another pretty face with a perfectly tight body that was just made
for his.
But she wasn’t just another pretty face she was smart, funny, she
knew a hell of lot more about cars then he did and oh God how she had fulfilled
his every fantasy of what she would be like.
He had to have her again he couldn’t have just the one night. He definitely wanted another ride and a real
long one where she wouldn’t get away from him again.
Thinking back to what Spike had said about being in a relationship
with someone and how great it could be, sounded even better then it did
before. Because before he hadn’t known
that she would come into his life and now he knew that he wouldn’t let her walk
away.
**
“C’mon you have to tell me!”
Spike whined.
Angel kept on punching the bag that Spike held for him. “No I don’t have to tell you shit. Besides a gentleman never tells.”
“Ha gentlemen my ass.
C’mon mate, we always trade sex stories. Didn’t I tell you about Faith?”
Angel never breaking stride with his workout answered, “I never
asked about Faith you just talked.”
”Well that’s what I do. Talk. Unlike some people I know.” He grumbled. “C’mon pretty, pretty please?
I’ll let you punch me in the face.”
Spike trying earnestly to get information out of Angel offered the one
thing he knew he couldn’t pass up, punching him in the face.
It was a rule between them that when they worked out together
there was no punching in the face because you never knew when you needed that
face to pick up some chick for the night.
But Spike feeling like a million bucks after his night with Faith
decided to blow caution to the wind and see if Angel would bite. And he did.
Angel turned around so quickly that before Spike knew what was
happening he was laying flat on his back rubbing his chin. “Oww you wanker that hurt!”
Angel was grinning from ear to ear, God that felt great! “Well what can I say? I couldn’t pass that offer up.” He stepped over to his gym back and pulled
out his towel drying the sweat off his body.
“Yeah well now that you got your kicks tell me, spill the beans!”
“There’s not much to say, we…hung out together at the club after
you guys left then I took her back to my place.”
Spike got off the floor and walked to where Angel was “No there’s
more to it then that. She was good
wasn’t she? With a body like hers she
must be a tigress in the sack!”
Angel scowled and took a menacing step towards Spike “I don’t ever
want to hear those words out of your mouth again.”
Spike was about to interject but Angel stopped him “Look it was
good, great actually. I enjoyed
myself…”
Spike smirked at him “I bet you did.”
Angel glowered at him “and I think she did too.”
“What do you mean you think?
Didn’t you ask her?” Angel
turned away scowling more, his features darkening with his thoughts “No, I didn’t
get a chance she was gone when I woke up.”
“Gone?”
“Yes gone as in I woke up alone, no warm willing body next to me.”
Angel growled out.
“Oh yeah I think Faith mentioned she had an early shoot.” Spike started to walk away but Angel grabbed
him by the arm.
“Shoot? Where?”
“Ah Venice Beach I think.
Something for next month’s Hot Rod.”
Angel contemplated this for only a second. “Hey Spike do you think we can do lunch some
other time?” He started to walk to the
showers.
Spike watched as Angel practically ran to the showers, and stifled
a giggle “Sure mate, another time.”
**
“That’s great Buffy just one more shot.” Buffy was knee deep in the water, soaking wet in just a t-shirt
and thong bottoms, and was miserable.
Since she got here at 10AM she had been pushed, prodded, tweezed,
plucked and pampered too death, and it was killing her. She was so tired and sore that all she
wanted to do was sleep.
“Fantastic darling now give me a sexy smile.” Sexy smile? At 11:30 in the morning is he
nuts?
Buffy closed her eyes and thought of sexy, Angel, now that was
sexy. Last night was sexy and she
remembered every single touch, taste, sigh and orgasm.
She knew that she could easily fall in love with him. He was just so amazing; he seemed to know
her so well. It confused the hell out of her and literally scared her to death.
“Ok darling that’s a wrap, your beautiful…magnificent!”
**
Angel stood at
the edge of the bicycle path watching her.
The way she moved in the water, the way the water moved around her,
trickling down her neck and into the crevice of her breasts she looked like a
sea nymph. With her head thrown back
and her nipples showing through her wet shirt, she was sex incarnate and he
couldn’t look away.
He could feel himself reacting to her and then did a quick sweep
around them and scowled when he saw that the other males on the beach were
reacting to her as well.
“That’s perfect Buff thank you darling, you are beautiful as
always.” The photographer yanked Buffy
into his arms and hugged her, his hands wandering lower then they should
be. Angel took a step forward ready to
jump on the guy but Buffy stepped back kissed the jerk on the check and walked
towards the tent.
He stopped himself from moving any further. When the hell did he
get so possessive? Especially over a woman that he had only spent one night of
bliss with, and who, he got the feeling, didn’t want anything more than that.
But for Angel it was like she was already his. He had spent too many months fantasizing
about her. Then to finally have her last night to be able touch her and taste
her for real and not in his dreams, made him even more determined to keep
her. He was adamant that he would do
whatever it took to make her realize that she belonged to him.
**
“He is so slimy, aghhhh!”
Claudia chuckled at Buffy’s outburst as she wiped her hands down her
body to get the imaginary slime off.
“Yup, I don’t know how you stand it.” “Well for $300 bucks an hour you’d stand it to.” “Touché”
“I’m going to get a cup of coffee, you want?” “No thanks honey, but you get yourself an
extra large because you look like you had a rough night!”
Buffy stretched her aching muscles “God you have no idea!” She opened the flap to walk out and bumped
into a solid wall of muscle.
“Ompf…sorry I haven’t had enough coffee yet…”
“I know the feeling.” Buffy looked up at the sound of that voice
and a big smile crossed her face “Angel”
“Buffy” and that was it.
She was lost, just the sound of her name coming off his lips and she was
ready to jump on him like a cat on a mouse.
“What…what are you doing here?”
Angel stared down into her lovely face, his hands on her arms to keep
her close to him his fingers making slow circles “You looked like you were
going to fall asleep out there and since I feel responsible for you’re ah…lack
of sleep I figured I’d bring you coffee.”
Buffy looked up at him, a twinkle in her eye “Conceited, much? How
did you know I was here?” “Spike might
have mentioned this morning.”
He smiled that sexy lopsided grin that turned her to putty and
handed her a tall double espresso latte. Buffy looked down and took it like it
was her last dying breath. “Oh my God
you are a life saver I was just drooling for one of these.”
His hand came up to wipe the corners of her mouth “Well I wouldn’t
want you drooling all over the place, at least…not yet.” They continued to stare at each other when
Claudia pushed her way out of the tent.
“Sweetie did you get your…oh excuse me I didn’t mean to
intrude.” Claudia looked at the
gorgeous stud that was currently eating Buffy up with his eyes. Then she looked
at Buffy and noticed that she was doing the same thing, isn’t this interesting
Claudia thought.
“Oh no it’s ok Claude, this is Angel, Angel this is Claudia, she’s
my assistant when I’m on a shoot.”
Angel turned his gaze to Claudia who almost dropped the skirt she
was holding because of the intensity of that stare. My God this man is
hot! “Claudia, nice to meet you.”
“Ah yeah you too. Ah Buffy
I’ll just go get your clothes.” “Ok
thanks Claude.”
“So are you done here today?
Because I thought maybe if you didn’t have any plans that we could have
lunch together?” He anxiously waited
for her answer but didn’t have long to wait.
“I’d love to I’m absolutely starving! Just give me a minute to get
changed.”
Angel brazenly raked his eyes up and down her body enjoying the
sight “You don’t have to change on my account.” He suggested as he wiggled his eyebrows at her.
Buffy giggled, “Sex fiend.
I’ll be right back.” She leaned
forward and kissed him on the lips but before he could press her for more she
pulled away and walked into the tent to change.
**
Oh my God he’s here; I can’t believe he’s here! Buffy was frantically running around the
tent looking for her clothes.
“Looking for these sweetie?”
Claudia stood behind her with her clothes dangling from her hands.
“Yeah thanks.” Buffy
grabbed them and started to dress.
“So is that Mr. Rough Night?”
“Yup that’s him.”
“Well if you don’t mind me saying you picked a fine one
there. I mean my God those eyes!”
Buffy thought about her incredible night with him “Yeah he is
pretty yummy.”
“Are you going out with him again?”
“Yeah he’s taking me to lunch.”
“Well you enjoy yourself and I mean really enjoy yourself.”
Buffy smiled at Claudia in the mirror “Oh I intend too.”
**
When Buffy came out of the tent Angel was leaning against the wall
waiting for her. She walked up to him
and smiled. He just smiled back and
leaned down to kiss her “Hello again.”
“Hello”
They walked holding hands toward the parking lot Angel asking her
about the shoot and how it went. She
started to tell him but then she saw where they were headed and dropped his
hand running full speed towards the black beauty in front of her.
“Wow Angel she’s a beauty!”
Angel was glad she liked it. He
had decided to take the Roadrunner out and give her a chance to see it.
She walked around, her finger trailing behind her over the smooth
black paint. “I bet she’s fast!”
He jingled the keys causing Buffy to look up just in time to see
him throw them her way “Why don’t you tell me.”
Buffy snatched the keys out of the air and smiled so brightly at
him he thought he would drop dead right there on the spot. “No way?”
He walked up to her and tweaked her nose “Yes way.”
She jumped up on him and wrapped her legs around his waist and
gave him a kiss that turned his toes.
“Whew what till I tell Faith, she will be so jealous!” Angel
laughed with her and they jumped in the car and sped off.