Chapter 2
A week went by and Buffy was on her way to work once again. It was a Friday night and she was working at a place that she had truly come to despise over the course of when she had been working there. Kids her age were out on the town having dates and going to school and having fun. Where was she? In the top cage at Gunn's club dancing topless. Yeah, she had a great life.
Over the course of that week she had managed to get some information about the two men that always came in together that had business with Gunn. Eve and Nina had been introduced to the two of them and only Eve had some worthwhile information about them.
The blonde that while looked like your town's Quarterback Football player, was actually a very dangerous man named Riley Finn. His boyish good looks and charm was what grabbed most people's attention. They felt like they could trust him. Boy, were they wrong.
The other one, the one that looked like a dangerous man to begin with was none other then Angelus O'Connor. Everyone in the city knew who Angelus O'Connor was. He was one of the richest men in town but no one was quite sure what he did for a living. There had been rumors but nothing confirmed.
Both Riley and Angelus were the local mob bosses. Angelus held up the Irish mob, while Riley handled the Italian. None of the public knew this, but of course the police were all over them, trying to catch them in some kind of act that could prove they were guilty.
Enter Spike and Faith.
Spike and Faith were two local cops always in Gunn's club looking to catch incriminating evidence against the two mafia men. Obviously they hadn't found anything to send them to jail yet.
Spike and Faith while nice people, always made Buffy uncomfortable. If they found out she was fifteen and working in a club where the attendance age was twenty-one? She'd be off to jail in a heartbeat and so would Gunn for hiring her. She had maintained her cool around them so far, and she was pretty confident that she could keep up her act, but she didn't want to press her luck.
As she walked into the club, the usual smell of smoke, beer and sex filled her nostrils and she exhaled the remainder of the fresh air that had been inside of her lungs outside. It was a beautiful night with the moon full and brightly lit. She could see the stars and it was all just amazingly wonderful.
She walked around what she called "The Mouth of Hell" she put her jacket in the back room with the rest of the employee's belongings. She wasn't scheduled to work for another hour but Gunn had called her here early saying something about an important man wanting to meet her.
She gracefully walked out into the main lobby where she spotted Gunn in the corner talking to a shorter man with black hair and a leather jacket. She knew the man, but she couldn't remember from where. There was something SO familiar about him, she was sure she knew him.
She tapped Gunn on the shoulder to get his attention and he turned around with a happy smile on his face. Seeing her beautiful face always brought a smile to his face. There was just something about the girl that made the day seem brighter.
"Ah, Buffy," he said as he looked at her.
The man standing next to him turned around and as soon as Buffy saw his face she knew exactly who he was. He was one man that she never wanted to see again if her life depended on it. She almost choked on her breath, she was so frightened.
Parker Abrams.
He was a man that had caused many horrors in Buffy's past.
His eyes and his smile had been Buffy's downfall when she was fourteen last year. She had been on her own since her mother had died and she had been out with friends when she'd met him. He was cute and flirtatious. She had no idea what kind of man he really was at the time.
For a few months they dated each other until one night when Parker let his true side show himself.
Buffy had been out with her two best friends Xander and Willow one night when Parker was "out of town". She hadn't bothered to leave a note, knowing that no one would be home.
When she returned well past one o'clock in the morning, she found Parker sitting in his chair in the living room waiting for her looking like he had been drinking as well as the fact that he was pissed off.
She had asked him what he was doing home so early and all her answer was waking up in the hospital two days later. After that she hadn't been in contact with him, refusing to let herself be a victim.
Looking back now, she thought, "yeah, that really lasted long,"
Parker was the only thing in Buffy's life that Gunn did not know about, and now she had wished that she had told him.
"Buffy this is Parker Abrams, he's a business man," Gunn introduced them.
Parker smirked at her, clearly finding it amusing the look on her face at seeing him again after a year or so.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Buffy," Parker offered her his hand to shake to which she only shook to not make Gunn look like a fool.
"What can I do for you Mr. Abrams?" she asked taking her hand away from his. The quicker she got this over the quicker she could go have a ten minute cry in the bathroom and then put it all behind her as she worked.
"Well Ms. Summers, I have a business proposition for you," he told her and winked at Gunn.
Gunn took that signal as a "You can leave now," and walked away to deal with more customers coming in and making sure they were satisfied.
"What do you want Parker?" Buffy instantly snipped at him as soon as Gunn was out of hearing range.
Smirking even more devilishly he ran his hand over her ass cupping it ever so slightly, revealing in being so close to her once again. It was intoxicating. She had been everything he had ever wanted in a woman and he had fucked it up. Would he have done it again? Fuck yeah! But still, he had thought that they could have worked it out.
Putting her hand against his stretched arm, she wanted to push him away and tell him to fuck off and get away from her! But looking around she knew that if she caused a scene it wouldn't go good for her when she talked with Gunn.
"What do I want? Well Buffy, I am here as a customer and you are in the servicing business..." he trailed on.
He got this look in his eyes that made Buffy just want to puke. He was looking at her like she was his most prized possession and all she wanted to do was smack him and tell him that she hadn't been his in a LONG time!
Wisely she didn't act on her thoughts.
"I meant about the business proposition you have for me," she told him in a knowing fashion.
Squeezing her ass slightly she grit her teeth and barred through it, as Parker whispered in her ear, "I want you to be one of my girls,"
She jerked her head back away from his mouth and looked at him with anger and humiliation.
Her emerald eyes turned black as she quietly yet deadly informed him where he could put his offer. And the polite way to say it was to put it where "the sun don't shine".
Walking away she didn't notice a two pairs of eyes that had witnessed the entire encounter and wanted her for themselves.
TBC…
