by S K
He went back to trying to do just that, and by the time he finished, Nikki was ready to pass out. Sated off of her taste for the moment, Angel kissed her spot one last time then glanced down at his dick. He was rock hard and needed to fuck her, now. Standing up, he grabbed his wallet out of his jeans to get a condom, but paused when he heard a knock at the door.
“Ignore it,” Nikki whispered. “It’s just room service.” She sat up on her knees and reached for Angel’s dick. Feeling the warmth of her mouth around him, Angel threw his head back and moaned like a man in the midst of being tortured and loving every second of it.
The knocking sounded again, but Nikki continued to slurp and suck his dickhead like it was an adult pacifier. Angel winced as if in pain before trying to push her away. It felt so damn good but he didn’t want to cum yet. “Baby, wait. I can’t take that right now…” he groaned. He gently pulled her head back, laughing softly as she latched onto his dick again. The laughter disappeared the second she swallowed and gulped him down as deeply as she could.
“Aww fuck! Nikki!” Angel watched her closely, letting her do her thing, but suddenly he froze. Someone just unlocked and opened the front door. Nikki was so engrossed in giving him pleasure she didn’t even hear it.
“Wait.” He abruptly slid out of her mouth. Nikki peered up at him in surprise. “Somebody just walked in.” He thrust his legs into his jeans and shoes, and had only taken a couple of long, swift strides to the bedroom door when they heard a voice call out.
“Nikki? It’s Jax. Surprise, sweetie.”
Nikki’s eyes frantically sought Angel’s as she covered her mouth with her hands. What was Jaxon doing here?? And how the hell had he gotten into her room?? It wasn't as if she had to explain herself to him. Yes, they were friends but he was also her boss! The last thing she needed was for her credibility to come into question by him seeing her in a compromising position with one of their investors.
Jaxon called her name again and this time it was closer, as if he were coming towards the bedroom.
“What are we going to do?!” she whispered to Angel as she hopped off the bed.
Angel turned to look at her, raising an eyebrow at the question. He calmly adjusted his bone hard dick in his pants and carefully zipped them up leaving them unsnapped. "For the last time, are you or are you not fucking him."
"No! But…"
He shrugged and gestured with his head to the bedroom door. "Then let him come in."
Chapter 9
“What? Angel, we can’t just...”
Before she could finish the sentence the bedroom door opened and Jaxon walked in. She was so shocked that she didn’t even think about pulling the sheet off the bed to cover herself.
At first, Jaxon only saw her nude body. A salacious grin spread over his mouth as he took a step towards her. Then he spotted Angel standing in the middle of the room, shirtless and wearing a pair of unbuttoned jeans.
Jax stopped in his tracks, stunned. “What tha...” His accusing gaze fell on Nikki. “What the fuck is going on?"
Angel smirked, walking over to Nikki. "Isn't it obvious?" He pulled the sheet off the bed and handed it to Nikki then stepped in front of her to shield her from Jaxon.
“You son of a bitch!” Jaxon took a step towards Angel with his hands balled into fists but stopped abruptly.
Angel didn’t move. He looked at Jax, contempt clearly written on his face, and lifted his hands, palms up.
“What…?” His voice was quiet and the smile on his face taunted Jaxon when he remained where he was. A dark crimson stain covered Jaxon's face as he looked at Angel with an expression of pure hatred.
“A-Angel…please.” Nikki whispered. She stepped around him and looked at Jax. “I don't know how you got into my room, but…"
"Is that all you can say! What are you doing with him, Nikki?"
Nikki raised her chin. "I don't owe you any explanations."
"The hell you don't!" Then as if a thought just occurred to him, his eyes shot back to Angel. “And what are you even doing here? I just saw you earlier today. You acted like you didn’t know where she was, you son of a bitch.”
Angel’s body tensed. “You need to watch your mouth.” His voice was calm but laced with underlying steel. Nikki heard the dangerous undertones in his voice, but apparently Jax didn’t.
"Fuck you!" He glared at Nikki, his jealousy evident. "And you too, you little slut!"
Angel rushed past Nikki, but she pulled him back, using her entire body weight to at least make him pause.
“Angel, please don't!”
“Call her another name. One more." Angel's nostrils flared and his chest heaved from the effort it took to stop from tearing Jax's head off his body. He never raised his voice, but Nikki could tell he was holding on to his temper by a thin thread that was unraveling quickly. “Get out. You can either go on your own or I can help...and I’m more than willing to do that."
Jax laughed in disbelief. “Oh, so you’re going to throw me out? You’re going to throw me out?!”
Nikki quickly stepped in front of Angel, whose eyes were glaring poisonous daggers. “Angel, please, please, please let me handle this. I want you to go. Everything’s under control here."
“I’m not going anywhere.” Angel’s tone let her know that wasn't an option.
Jax took another step towards them and gave Angel a condescending smile. “You just had to come and test her out for yourself, huh?”
The muscle in Angel’s jaw twitched as his eyes narrowed. He was trying to figure out what part of Jax's body he was going to break first.
Jax looked at Nikki. “Did you know he and I had lunch earlier today?”
Nikki frowned. “So.”
Jaxon's smile widened as he eagerly delivered the rest of his news. “Guess who the topic of conversation was?”
Nikki remained silent, but her frown deepened.
“Fine. I’ll tell you. It was you!” His top lip curled up and his eyes took on an ugly gleam as he looked her up and down. “That’s right. I told him I bet your pussy was made of gold.” Jax's laugh was not a pleasant one. “I guess he decided to come here and find out for himself.”
Nikki glanced at Angel. It was obvious from his expression that he was going to snap any second now. If he wasn’t going to leave, then she had to get Jaxon out of the room quick. "Jax, we can talk about this later. I'm asking you again to please leave."
Jax's eyes stretched wide. “You want me to go? You know what? I thought you were better than this. You're acting like some little bitch in heat who…"
Those were the last words Jax managed to get out of his mouth before Angel lunged around Nikki and punched him dead in his mouth. Jax’s knees buckled like a stack of cards and blood spewed from his lips. He got up on unsteady legs, screaming obscenities when he saw the blood on his hands.
“You motherfucker! Look what you’ve done! I‘m gonna have your ass thrown under the jail. You don’t know who you’re messing with…”
Angel hit him again, sending him sprawling to the floor, moaning in pain. When he went after him, Nikki half jumped on his back.
“Angel, no! Stop it! Stop it!” But Angel couldn’t see or hear anything through the haze of fury that pumped through his body. He set Nikki to the side as if she were a weightless doll and circled Jax who was writhing on the floor.
“You were saying something, Jaxon?” Angel kicked him in the side, causing him to howl in agony. “Something about putting me under the jail?” Angel’s voice was quiet as if he were having a casual conversation. He continued to circle Jax like a pitbull in a dog fight trying to find the weakest part to tear into. The next series of kicks connected with Jax's ribs then his stomach. He ignored Nikki's screams as she told him to stop.
“Told you not to call Nikki another name, didn't I?” He reached down and pulled Jax up by the front of his shirt and damned near slapped the taste out of his mouth before shoving him back down on the floor. "Who's the bitch now?"
Jax crawled over to the bed and pulled himself up to his knees, grabbing at the covers. Angel walked behind him and wrapped his arm around his neck. All the fury and anger he’d kept inside for all these years came out as he slowly squeezed. Jax clawed as the pressure on his larynx constricted his breathing.
Angel didn't notice the deep scratch marks on his skin. He was in a zone, and the only thing he wanted to do was inflict pain. If the son had to pay for the father’s sin, so be it.
“Angel, pleaasssseeee….” Nikki cried.
Angel's lips tightened and after a few more seconds, he abruptly released Jax from the hold he had around his neck and pushed him to the floor. Nikki rushed over to Jax and lifted his head into her lap. She grabbed the sheet and tried to wipe the blood from his face. Her eyes had a fearful look in them as she studied Angel. If she hadn’t been here, she had no doubt he would’ve killed Jax and not thought another thing of it.
“Are you crazy?! What’s wrong with you?!" Nikki yelled. “Get out! Get…out!”
Angel watched her hovering over Jaxon. Disgusted, he shook his head then snatched his shirt off the floor. Without another word, he walked out of the room. Nikki jumped when he slammed the door behind him hard enough to tear the frame from the hinges.
Nikki and Jax were in the emergency room where the doctor had securely wrapped his ribs after determining they were just bruised, not broken. Jax's face looked worse than it actually was because of all the blood. After they cleaned the cuts and abrasions, the doctor told him that the police were waiting to speak with him. Jax stared at Nikki then told the doctor to give him a minute.
“Are you okay?” Nikki asked in a hesitant voice.
Jax watched her with cool, distant eyes. Nikki peered closer, studying his features. Something about his expression gave her pause. Something about his eyes…
Jax began speaking and brought her thoughts back to the reason they were there. “Am I okay, Nikki? What do you think?” he hissed.
Nikki lowered her eyes.
“So that’s the kind of man you want? A thug?” he sneered. His voice lowered suggestively. “You should’ve told me you liked it rough, babe. I'd have been more than happy to oblige if that would've given me a shot.”
Nikki’s head snapped up. Anger flashed in her eyes but she didn’t respond to the taunt. She knew Jaxon was intentionally trying to bait her. “What are you going to tell the police?”
His expression was incredulous when it hit him why she was asking. “Wait a minute. Here I am, the one injured and in the hospital, and you’re worried about your boyfriend?!”
“He’s not my boyfriend, Jax…and even if he was, it's none of your business.”
"Not even if it means your job?"
"Please, you do not want to go there with me Jaxon! Friends or not, aside from being an asset DWC does not want to lose, I will slap a sexual harassment suit on your ass so fast, your head will spin, so we both know me losing my job is bullshit!" Holding her hands up when he started yelling, Nikki closed her eyes. "I’m not getting into this with you. Will you please just answer my question? Are you going to have Angel arrested?”
Jaxon looked her up and down as if he couldn’t stand the sight of her. Then his expression changed as if he were suddenly feeling very satisfied with himself. “I guess I could. I could also let them know your ‘boyfriend’ is one of the biggest drug and arms dealers in the US.” Jax knew he was exaggerating but expounded on his claim to give shock value to his words. He frowned as Nikki’s expression never changed.
“Not anymore, he’s not,” she said coolly.
Jax's eyes shifted and thinned. Those four words said so much. “You knew?! But…”
Nikki walked over to a chair and sat down. Crossing her legs, she said. “Angel and I have known each other since we were kids.”
Jaxon looked around the room in shock before letting his gaze rest on her. “You…you grew up with a criminal?”
“He’s not a criminal. He’s changed and no longer lives that life. Jax, we did a thorough background check on him and his company if you remember.”
Jaxon's expression cleared as he began to laugh then winced, grabbing his bruised ribs.
Nikki frowned. “What’s so funny?”
Still chuckling, Jax said, “That’s not the real report. The real report is locked away in my office.”
“What?” Nikki whispered.
Confidence was etched over Jaxon's face once he realized he had the upper hand. “That’s right. We needed that money. We tried every other avenue without success. Do you think my father would’ve agreed to let me accept Angel’s loan if he’d known that bastard was little more than a common criminal?”
“But…you’ve agreed to give him ten percent of DWC’s stock.”
“Don’t act stupid, Nikki. It doesn’t become you. That man will never get a whiff of my family’s stock. I’m holding the information for safe keeping until the thirty days is up. Then it’s going to give me great pleasure to let him know that if he even thinks about trying to sue us for breach of contract, I’ll turn every file that we’ve gathered on him over to the authorities.”
Nikki slowly stood up. It looked like she had labeled the wrong man a monster. “I should’ve let him continue to kick your ass. I hope you don’t think I’m going to just stand around and let you cheat him out of something you’ve already agreed to.” She turned around and headed towards the door to leave.
“Oh, I think you will, Nikki….” Jax's confident voice made her steps falter. Satisfied that he had her attention now, Jax continued. “You’re going to do two things. One, this information is going to stay between me and you. To say you don’t have feelings for him, you sure are ready to jump to his defense, aren’t you?”
Nikki turned around to face him. “And two?”
“You’re going to do everything I tell you to do, the first being you won’t see Angel again after tonight.”
Nikki swallowed hard. “And if I refuse….” She asked the question but already knew the answer.
Jaxon's laugh held little amusement. “Then I’ll clip your Angel’s wings and make sure he spends the rest of his life in prison.”
Chapter 10
I’ve had enough of this shit. She’s going to see me whether she wants to or not.
Angel pulled his Bentley in front of the Davidson World Corp.’s building. He had been trying to reach Nikki for the last week. Every time he called her office, Kendra, told him she wasn’t in. He’d had someone watching her house, but she hadn’t been home either. Finally, the guard at DWC had called his personal line tonight and told him that Nikki just went up to her office.
“She told me she had some things that needed her attention, but she wouldn’t be long. I knew you’d want to know Mr. LaCroix.”
“Thank you, Walter.”
“No problem, sir.” Walter had been paid handsomely to keep an eye out for Nikki. He called Angel as soon as the elevator doors closed behind her.
Angel got out of the car and slammed the door harder than necessary. The frustration he felt at not knowing where she was had turned into white hot anger. The more he thought about the business he’d been neglecting because he couldn’t get her out of his mind, the angrier he became.
The security guard buzzed him in. Angel stalked past him to the elevators as he called out, “Thanks, again, Walter.” Walter threw up a hand of acknowledgment and nodded.
Once he got into the elevator cab, Angel stabbed the button that would take him to the floor her office was located on. He tried to calm down, knowing it would do more harm than good if he confronted her in the mood he was in. He knew what was wrong with him, and it pissed him off even more that he had his choice of women but the one he craved was not available to him. He was going to take care of that tonight as well.
Angel stepped out of the elevator and walked down the hall to her office. Turning the knob, he quietly opened the door and saw her standing at the window staring out at the darkness
. It reminded him of how she’d looked that night at the fundraiser. He took a deep breath before walking in and closing the door.
“Penny for your thoughts,” he said softly.
Nikki whirled around when she heard his voice and her heartbeat accelerated at the sight of him. She almost thought he was a mirage because she’d just been standing there thinking about him.
“Angel…what are you doing here?” she whispered.
Angel’s anger dissolved in an instant while his desire for her increased. Smiling he said, “That’s not what you’re supposed to say, remember?”
Nikki started to return his smile until she remembered Jaxon's threat. “You have to go.”
Angel locked the door and turned the light out. “Mmm, no. I don't have to do anything but live and die.”
Nikki shook her head from side to side. “Angel, you don’t understand. Jax...” She stopped and bit her lip to keep the words inside.
He scowled at the mention of the other man’s name. “Jax…what?”
“Nothing, you just need to go.” Nikki picked up her purse and walked towards the door.
Angel's first instinct was to grab her arm. He lifted his hand then dropped it back to his side when he remembered how she‘d reacted last time he did that. “Nikki, what’s going on? Are you still upset with me? That bastard deserved everything he got.” And more, he added silently.
Before she could stop herself, she agreed. “Yes, he did,” she said bitterly.
“You’ve been avoiding me. Why?”
“I just needed some time to myself, Angel. I…you need to leave me alone.” She continued past him and unlocked the door. Before she could open it, Angel reached from behind her and put his hand flat against the door, keeping it shut.
Nikki leaned her forehead against the door and closed her eyes. “Angel…please. Don’t.”
“Do you think I like feeling this way, Nikki?” Angel’s voice was angry and harsh. “Do you think I like thinking about you every fucking minute of the day?!” Nikki remained silent, not answering, praying that he would just move and let her leave because she didn’t have the will to fight him.