Chapter: As Days Go On By
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….. A Week Later: …..
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Through the weeks since opening day, the bakery has been getting a lot of business, especially business outside of Charming. There was a lot of deliveries, which Chibs had been helpful with that by sending over prospects to make those deliveries.
Anabelle was in her bakery and was placing fresh cupcakes on a serving tray. The cupcakes were pumpkin spice cupcakes with cream cheese frosting since it was the fall season and they had entered the October month.
"Did you hear that Jarry is leaving and transferring Los Angeles?"
"Thank god. She brought enough shit to the boys."
Picking up the tray, Anabelle looked at the two bakers that were also relatives to some SAMCRO members. They paused as they saw her staring at them with curious eyes. Everyone in the bakery knew that Anabelle was Chibs's woman. Therefore, they stared at her in a different light when it came to certain matters.
Such as this one.
"Jarry. As in Althea Jarry?"
"She worked at the police station. You don't have to worry about her." Monica, a fifty year old woman that was an old lady of a SAMCRO member, told her.
"To be honest, the woman was a bitch and old rumors pointed out—"Jessie, a thirty-nine year old woman, who was a cousin of a SAMCRO member began to say with an unsure look.
These two women had past history of working in bakeries and actually did some culinary schooling.
Since Jessie brought this topic up, Anabelle glanced in between the two and she could tell that they were uncertain about telling Anabelle what had happened between Jarry and Chibs. They didn't want to stir up trouble between the SAMCRO President and his woman.
"That Chibs and her slept together in the past. I know." Anabelle said as she walked by them.
"Wait, you know?"
"Of course. Chibs told me about it when we passed the said woman. I just gave her a nice, wide smile before laying a nice one on Chibs cheek. I haven't seen her since. That was about a couple days ago."
Hearing Anabelle say this, the two older woman began to laugh causing Anabelle to gently snicker too. Both Monica and Jessie knew the whole story about Anabelle knocked out the croweater in the ring about a week ago and she set an example for the rest of the women that eyed Chubs a warning of what would happen to them. Since that fight, many took the warning to not fuck with Anabelle or make any sort of advancements toward Chibs.
Exiting out of the backroom, Anabelle moved behind the cases and she slid one of the door's open to place the tray with fresh cupcakes in an open space. Shutting the case door shut, Anabelle looked up to see some customers sitting at tables and enjoying their baked goods. Anabelle was starting to notice that she was having some customers come in to get something and sit down to enjoy the treat and some productive activity, more than usual. She was starting to think that she should serve coffee and tea as it seem like the same customers came in to sit and enjoy times with talking to their friends, reading, on their laptop, or doing some form of work.
The familiar sound of motorcycles made Anabelle to look out the front window to see three motorcycles pull in. A familiar face made her get a small grin.
Chibs, Tig and Happy came walking into the bakery with their cool and collected swagger. Tig immediately went to the glass cabinet filled with donuts and began to put many in a paper bag. Happy stood with him, pointing out ones that he wanted as Tig seem to be getting the same ones. While Chibs came up to the counter where Anabelle came to stand across from him.
"Come for some treats?" Anabelle asked as she rested her hands on the countertop.
"Aye. We have been busy down at the shop and we were craving something sweet yet addicting." Chibs told her as he placed his gloved cover hands on the counter and leaned a bit forward to her.
Knowing what he wanted, Anabelle rolled her eyes and stuck her tongue out at him in a playful manner.
"Oh come on, love." Chibs narrowed his eyes at her.
"In front of my customers, Chibs. What would they think?" Anabelle softly said, leaning over the counter toward him and leaving about a half of foot between their faces.
A sly smirk came onto Chibs lips and his dimples started to show.
"That a man wants to give his woman a kiss." Chibs told her.
"Hmm." Anabelle just hummed underneath her breath as if she was thinking of his reply causing him to raise his right hand up to point at her with his pointer finger.
"I have been going running with ya all week in the morning. My ass and quads have been killing me. I think that I deserve a kiss, Ana."
"Shush up, Filip." Anabelle gently laughed, smacking his hand away to reach out to grasp either side of his cheeks and she closed the distance between them to peck his lips.
"Do I get one too?"
They pulled away from each other to see Tig innocently standing there, hugging a bag full of donuts in his arms with Happy beside him with his hands in his pockets.
"You wish." Anabelle said as she stepped away from the counter to let one of her workers to cash out Tug's purchase.
"I'll wish every night." Tig said in reply, wanting the last word in their interaction.
"How much did you get, you asshole." Chibs blurted out as he took notice of the white paper bag filled to the brim with various donuts.
"Close to three dozen." Happy got out before Tig could make a lie about how many were in the bag.
"What?" Chibs snapped as he stared down Tig, who just continue to stare forward at the cash register and he tried to not look into the glaring eyes of his President.
"Ya are bloody paying for this." Chibs growled as he stepped away from the counter and Happy quickly stepped away too as he did not want to pay either. For Happy was known to be very reserve with his money and many of the guys called him cheap when it came to shopping.
Once Tig paid, Chibs snuck his way into the backroom where Anabelle had gone to and she was starting on making a chocolate truffle pie. He had told Tig and Happy to head back to the shop without him.
From another working station in the back, both Monica and Jessie saw Chibs sneaking up behind Anabelle causing them to turn their backs to give the two some privacy time. They picked up trays that had fresh cookies on them and brought that out front to put into the case.
Arms came around her from behind causing Anabelle to drop the recipe card onto the steel table. Chibs rested his chin on her left shoulder and held her close against his body.
"What are ya making?"
"Chocolate truffle pie." Anabelle answered while wiggling herself in his arms causing him to loosen his hold slightly on her. She turned in his hold and wrapped her arms around his neck as they stood face to face now.
"Shouldn't you be going back with Tig and Happy?"
"Trying to get rid of me?"
"You? Never." Anabelle smiled then leaned up to press her lips against his own.
The arms wrapped around her lower back tighten a little as Chibs added some pressure against her lips with his own. When the edge of the steel table was against her back now, Anabelle knew that their kissing was getting heated, especially when Chibs hands drifted down to her lower hips and gave them a gentle squeeze.
Pulling away, Anabelle bumped her nose against his chin causing Chibs to look down at her once she pulled back to stare up into his chocolate color eyes. Her hands were gently rubbing the back of his neck which made him to shut his eyes and lean forward to bump his forehead against her own.
The sensation of her fingers massaging the back of his neck felt pleasant. He could feel her fingers brush against an old scar that he received when he was thrown back from an explosion.
"Ya fingers are wonders, love." Chibs open his eyes to stare into her own.
"Are you seriously that sore from running this week?"
"Getting back into shape and pushing my body. Yes. But I felt a change from it." Chibs told her as he stepped back when she pulled away from him.
"I'll give you a massage."
His eyebrows rose at her offer.
"Oh?"
"Yes, oh. Take it or not?"
"No, no, I am most definitely taking it." Chibs quickly told her and Anabelle to gently laugh at how frantic he became before he gave her an answer.
"Now, since you agree. Some people need to work." Anabelle playfully said and she made a shooing gesture at him.
Instead of saying a comment in return, Chibs pecked Anabelle's lips and stepped back as if he was going to leave. When Anabelle turned her back to him, Chibs took action.
A nice swat on the ass made Anabelle to jump with a small yelp. She whirled around to watch a laughing Chibs jog away, but before he left the backroom, he sent her a wink over his shoulder and then disappeared out to the front.
"Asshole."
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….. Later On: …..
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With Neil at an away game, Anabelle drove her Night Rod to the T&M Automotive shop where she found Chibs passed out sleeping on the couch in the office. She silently shut the door behind her and she glanced at the desk to see paperwork spread out.
Her eyes flicker back to Chibs and she began to formulate an idea in her head. She could see that Chibs must've took a break from paperwork and he had passed out in exhaustion on the couch.
Locking the office door and the door that led out to the garage, Anabelle slowly moved back over to the couch. Revenge was in her mind for Chibs smacking her ass earlier back in the bakery.
Quickly moving forward, Anabelle jumped onto Chibs causing him to snap awake and try to shoot up into a sitting position, but Anabelle placed her hands upon his chest to shove him back down. He was staring up with wide eyes and then realization sunk in that it was her.
With her straddling his waist, Chibs placed his hands on her hips and gave her a small smirk at their position. She rolled her eyes then she leaned down to peck his lips. Chibs tried to get more out of her, but she pulled away and wagged her right pointer finger at him.
Before she attempted to get off of him, Anabelle made sure to wiggle her hips and she tried to get up after, but Chibs overpower her as he sat right up and wrapped his arms around her. He turned to the side causing her to yelp as he manage to wrap his legs around hers too and flipped them.
Her back was now pressed against the back of the couch and they were chest to chest now.
"Thought that ya could get me. Ya should learn not to tease me." Chibs told her as he pressed his body against hers and in result her body was sandwich between him and the couch.
"I guess so." Anabelle replied as she managed to get her right leg free and toss it over his hip.
In such a position, Chibs and Anabelle were staring one another in the eyes with this spark of intimacy. Her right hand that was against his chest began to play with his rosary necklace and she eyed it before flickering her pale mint green eyes up to connect with his milk chocolate brown ones.
"Jesus woman, your eyes are captivating." Chibs breathlessly told her as he reached up with his left hand and caress the side of her face. He dropped that hand down her side to rest there.
Anabelle felt herself grin as she arched her back when she felt his hand that was resting on her side start to travel underneath her top. The warmth of his hand sent this rippling feeling through her body. His hand ran up her side before drifting to her back and running his hand downward to rest against her lower back just above her jeans waistline.
"I'm telling you right now, I'm not doing it on the couch."
"Aye, I agree." Chibs chuckle but let out a low growl when she grinded their lower halves together.
"If ya keep that up, something might happen." Chibs assured her causing her to flash him a smug smirk to which he leaned forward about to wipe it off with his own lips, but they were interrupted.
A knock on the office door made the two to look toward it then at each other.
"Who is it?" Chibs shouted.
"It's me. We got a problem." Tig answered with a firm tone.
The seriousness in Tig's voice made Chibs to pull away from Anabelle and get off the couch. Anabelle sat up on the couch and she rested her feet on the ground just when Chiba unlocked the door and swung it open to show a serious looking Tig.
"What's the matter?"
"We have a new club in town." Tig told him, glanced at Anabelle sitting on the couch and his electric blue eyes to look back at Chibs.
"Call Church."
"You got it." Tig nodded, turning away and walked off to call for Church.
Chibs watched his VP walk away to find the others to notify them about a Church meeting. He turned his attention to Anabelle, who stood up from the couch and made her way over to him. He rested his left hand onto her waist once she gotten close enough to him.
"I'll head out."
"Not until I get this information about this new group."
"Filip—"
"Anabelle. Please. I wish not to take any risk. I want to know more information about them from Tig before I let ya out of my sight. Understand my concerns, Ana." Chibs told her.
The two stared one another down, searching each other's eyes. Anabelle shut her eyes after a few seconds of a stare down and she nodded her head. A relief sigh escaped Chibs and he bent down to lay his lips against her forehead. He pulled away and left her alone in the office as he went to Church.
Anabelle moved around the office to sit herself down in the leather office seat behind the desk. Her eyes flicker over the papers that sat in front of her. She saw that it was order sheets for car parts, a few papers continuing billing towards their customers and other papers that showed repos that need to be done.
She couldn't help but organize the papers and then sat back in the seat to stare around the office and smirk at it still being clean. There was a few boxes that sat around, but it wasn't as bad as that day she came in freaking out.
Twenty minutes passed when Chibs came back into the office to see Anabelle playing on her cellphone. Her eyes flicker up to stare at him and watched him drop on the couch with a huff.
"Should I be worry?"
"As of right now, no. But we are keeping a watch on this new group that call themselves the Charming Razors. Seems like they are a mix of motorcycles. Harleys and street bikes." Chibs told her as he watched Anabelle stand up from the seat and she made her way toward him.
Chibs held out his arms and they were soon wrapped around her when she sat herself down sideways in his lap. Anabelle rested her head on his shoulder. They sat in silence, just enjoying one another's company, but thinking about this new group in Charming.
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….. Next Day: …..
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"Oh this is delicious."
Anabelle gently laughed as Venus began to lick her fingers causing some customers to go wide eyes at her actions, especially when she would add some groans.
It was noontime when Venus made her appearance in the bakery and she went onto this whole explanation of why she needed to eat something with a lot of chocolate as she hasn't had sweets in so long as she was trying to watch her figure. But once Tig told her that she already had an amazing figure, that was all that she needed to hear. After that, Venus came in and order a big slice of a fudge chocolate cake.
Taking a break from baking, Anabelle sat across from Venus for a good ten minutes, listen to her ramble about random things happening around Charming or Lodi.
"So tell me, have Filip and you, you know." Venus gave her a wag of the eyebrows causing Anabelle to smirk then shake her head.
"Really? Here I would thought you two would've jumped each other by now. The way you look at one another is sex eyes." Venus bluntly said, waved her fork around before stabbed the cake to get a piece off again.
"Not yet. We agree to take the relationship slow. Was there moments? Yes."
"So you mostly likely only got to third base?"
"Yes." Anabelle nodded, glancing to the side to see some new customers came in and began to fill out an order sheet that was usually order forms for them to make some sort of baked good for a party or special occasion.
Looking back at Venus, Anabelle realized that she was a bit blunt and open with her. Usually, Anabelle wouldn't share such information, but with Venus, Anabelle knew that the woman would get it out of her one way or another.
"Anabelle."
Looking away from Venus, one of the caseworkers, Emma, waved her over.
"Need to get back to work."
"Go ahead, honey. I'm going to enjoy this and probably get more." Venus waved her off making Anabelle to gently laugh as she got up and walked away from the small table.
Coming before the customers, Anabelle went to work with a business face, but with a welcoming vibe. She helped with everything that they needed and found out that these two individuals wanted a cake for their good friend, who was going to be celebrating their fifty birthday.
Once Anabelle got the ideas down and told them what she was going to do, the customers were happy with what she thought up before they took their leave. Once they left, Venus was about to leave when Chibs and Tig appeared in the bakery.
"Look who it is." Venus sung as the SAMCRO President and Vice President came strolling in.
Tig went over to Venus while Chibs came straight over to Anabelle and he laid a kiss against her lips then pulled back to stare down at the paper orders in her hands.
"What's this?"
"Order sheet and my brainstorming sheet with drawings of what the customer wants. I have to make this tonight." Anabelle told him as he peeked over her sketches and a he made a face as he saw what the cake was for.
"Fifty birthday party. Argh, I don't even want to see that number." Chibs muttered which caused Anabelle to gently snicker and reached out to pat her right hand against Chibs chest.
"You are a handsome Scotsman no matter the number." Anabelle assured him.
Immediately, a dimple smile came onto his lips at her positive comment toward him.
"Thanks, love." Chibs said as he bent down to lay another one on her lips before then pulled away when Tig mentioned from behind about picking up muffins and donuts again.
"This time only get a dozen. Not three." Chibs glanced over his right shoulder to tell Tig, who simply threw his hands in the air as he made his way to the case cabinet where customers could self-serve themselves.
"You're not paying for it, so don't worry about it." Tig replied that made Chibs flip him off behind his back.
"Filip." Anabelle gently swatted at his stomach for his action toward Tig while Venus gently snicker behind her hands as Chibs grabbed his stomach and made a dramatic fake hurt expression.
"Oh my poor Scotsman." Anabelle jokily cooed as she leaned to him then shoved him away as Tig came skipping over with a bag of fresh muffins and donuts in his arms.
"Don't pity him." Tig said and Chibs to stick his foot out and successfully tripped his VP.
The trip had caused Tig to crash into the counter and groan as his knees slammed against the front of the hard wood counter. Chibs snickered while both Venus and Anabelle rolled their eyes as their grown men acted like children.
Once Tig paid, Chibs came up to Anabelle and gave her another peck on the lips before leaving with Tig to head back to work.
"Those men will never grow up." Venus said as they stood side by side, watching out the window at their men.
They watched as Tig tripped Chibs in revenge which caused Chibs to go after Tig to put him into a headlock, but Tig held up the bag of muffins and donuts, shouting about not wanting to squish the food. That only caused Chibs to flip him off once again then shoved him to the side and got onto his Glide. Tig flashed a victorious grin toward his President when he got onto his Dyna.
"Yes, but it makes them, well, them." Anabelle said with a soften smile as she watched Chibs flashed her a smile through the window just as he rode off with Tig right beside him.
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Hi Everyone,
Here is another chapter!
So, this is sort of a filler chapter, but at the same time, showing a new group entering Charming. This new group is a group that I complete made up and I'm still thinking of ideas of what to do with this new group.
Anyways…
Enjoy. Review. Thank You!