A Flicker of Redemption

Chapter 26

Waking up the next day, she felt a little sore. It had been a couple years since her first sexual experience and she shuddered thinking about it. Last night, Happy had been gentle with her, almost loving towards her, and she figured that was out of the ordinary for the normally demanding and aggressive personality he had. Whatever reason he had for being so gentle with her, she enjoyed it and was thankful for it. She wasn't sure she could have handled the aggressiveness last night. He rolled over onto his back so she took the opportunity to slide out from his grasp to take herself a quick shower. As she stood under the spray of water letting it ease her muscles, there came two tattooed arms snaking their way around her waist.

"Good morning, little girl." He roughly stated before nuzzling his face in her wet neck.

"Morning." She replied.

"Do you regret last night?" He suddenly asked making her heart leap into her throat.

"No." She stated, "Do you?"

"The only thing I regret is not making it last longer." He told her as he pressed his body up against hers making her smile.

"Maybe next time." She told him earning a happy grunt in response, "I need to get showered and dressed so I can go to work."

"I'll wash your hair for you. But you better not tell anyone I did it." He told her.

"Not a word." She smiled over her shoulder at him.

She was surprised at how gentle he was as he washed her hair for her. With them working together, it didn't take her long to be climbing out of the shower. She left him there to bathe himself while she dried off and got dressed. Gemma didn't like tardiness, she had learned by the chewing out of poor Juice one morning, so she tried to be early since she was living on the property. Gemma noticed her walking across the parking lot and appeared to be in pain. Angelika didn't say a word as she entered the office and got straight to work. That wasn't new. How she was walking was, however, and Gemma wanted to know about it.

"Sweetheart, are you ok?" Gemma questioned from her desk.

"Yeah, why?" Angelika asked.

"You sure are walking funny today." Gemma stated making the blond sigh.

"Well...uh... you see...Happy and I..." Angelika trailed not wanting to actually say it.

"You and Happy got intimate?" Gemma put it together making the blond nod at her, "Must've been one hell of a night for you to be walking so funny today."

"He was actually pretty gentle with me which I'm sure is not like him at all." Angelika explained.

"Nothing he does when it comes to you is like him, sweetheart." Gemma expressed, "He probably didn't want to cause you any pain your first time together."

"Probably. He knows that I've been assaulted when I was younger so that may have played a part in it too. I'm not sure." Angelika shrugged, "Either way, it was an enjoyable experience with him."

"That's all that matters, baby." Gemma smirked at her before dropping the subject.

Little by little, the bikers came into the office to clock in for their shift at the garage. Happy didn't say a word to Angelika when he did and she didn't say anything to him as she went about her tasks in the office. Gemma just shook her head before turning her attention to the stack of papers on her desk. They had a couple repos that needed to be taken care of, two cars had been finished and needed to be picked up by their owners and their bills paid, and one car had just been dropped off that morning that needed to be checked out. Angelika went to work getting all the paperwork sorted for everything as Gemma made phone calls.