This Chapter is a little short but this should give an explination on why Emilina was so upset with Gemma besides the fact that she's a bitch. I'm trying to get these chapters out as soon as I can so everyone be patient.

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Jax drove Emilina's jeep and Emilina sat in the passenger seat watching as the trees blurred in passing. They now sat inside her house on her couch as the baby and puppy slept in the crib up in the nursery. He stared at her, not knowing if her anger for his mother had dissipated yet, not knowing if it would be smart to talk to her, not knowing if he would be allowed to touch her. He was, after all, the product of Gemma's 'dried up kitty' and maybe she would take it out on him and dump him.

That wouldn't sit well with him.

Emilina on the other hand didn't know if she could explain herself to Jax, explain why she got so angry and blew up at her boyfriends mother after only meeting the woman once. Could she explain to this man that she cared for how much Queen Gemma had pressed her buttons? Would he leave her now that she and his mother would not get along? He didn't seem like a mama's boy but you never know.

She sighed and slowly looked to Jax. He didn't seem upset, his face wasn't red with anger, his muscles weren't tense and his eyes didn't show anger. "I went to far, didn't I?"

Jax looked at her questioningly. He didn't expect that to be the first thing that she would say. There should have been more yelling as far as Jax was concerned but as long as Emilina wasn't kicking his ass to the curb, not yelling was ok with him. "I don't know, I mean I know Isabella is a touchy subject for you but damn-"

"It's not Bella." She interrupted. "It's my husband, Vincent." Emilina reaches towards the coffee table and opens a drawer in it. She takes out a blue book that had a picture of her and another man on it. He had long black hair held in a low ponytail, black eyes, and way tatted up the arms. Emilina stood next to him in a beautiful wedding dress with the sun setting behind them on a beach. They couldn't be any older than seventeen when this picture was taken and yet they were married. "He's still a sore spot for me."

They flipped through pictures of their years together He started to notice that when he got to the pictures of Emilina during her pregnancy that Vincent wasn't in any of them. "What happened to Vincent?" Jax asked.

"We loved each other soooo much." Emilina still looked through the pictures even after Jax was done. "We got married at sixteen with my fathers and his parents consent. Since I had graduated early and Vincent had a GED our families figured we were responsible enough to start a family. When I was twenty-one I found out that I was pregnant and I was so happy, I planned for a whole week on how I was going to surprise him with the news. I never got the chance though." Her eyes saddened as she got to her pregnancy photos with her brothers, father, Vincent's sister and parents. "Our sixth anniversary was coming up so I thought 'what better gift than to know your having a baby'. So I set up the house with rose petals on the floor and furniture, a nice hot dinner waiting by candle lights, a warm bath upstairs with scented candles and lilies floating in the water and nice silk sheets on the bed. I waited for him to come home." Jax could see the tears sparkle in her eyes as she talked about that special moment. "I waited so long that all the candles melted away, the food and bathwater turned cold. I was just about to call him when the phone rang. The police calling to tell me that the body of my husband had been found shot to death in his car in an abandoned lot."

Jax's blood ran cold. Now he understood why she was so defensive about Vincent. A day that was meant to be special to them both, the anniversary of their union before God, became the day that Emilina was widowed, Isabella became fatherless before she was even born, and Vincent died not knowing about his child. He couldn't picture anything more traumatizing than that.

He scooted closer to her and took her into his arms as she cried. He wanted to take her pain away but knew it was impossible. Jax whispered in her hair and soothed her slowly into small sniffles and a tear here and there. "God babe I'm so sorry." He didn't receive an answer besides her limp body and slow breathing. He picked up her sleeping body and carried her up the stairs, past the nursery and into her master bedroom then laid her on her queen sized bed.

He didn't leave. He slept the night away right next to Emilina whose face was still tear streaked.


The warmth of the morning rays through her bedroom window wake Emilina. Also the smell of smoke and something burning woke her up. 'Wait a minute…' Emilina paused as she became fully awake. 'Something burning…' she gasped and threw the covers off her body "MY BABY!"

She ran to the nursery and picked up Isabella and the puppy and ran down the stairs. She passed by the kitchen but quickly backtracked. There in the kitchen over the stove stood Jax in a light blue apron the says "MAMA'S COOKIN'!" "Jax, Sweety, what are you doing?"

He turned and smiled at Emilina's bed head as she panted in the kitchen doorway. "I made you breakfast… well I made pancakes and toast but I burnt your eggs. Sorry darlin."

"It's ok."

"Why are you panting?"

"Well I woke up to the smell of smoke and I thought my house was on fire so I just grabbed my babies and was about to run out the door. But now that you mention it I should feed them and eat too."

Jax sat a plate down on the table for Emilina as she got a bottle for Isabella. He scooped up some puppy food for Chewy who just chewed on his bowl until he figured out that he was hungry and should probably eat. Jax watched what was in front of him, Emilina snuggled her daughter as Isabella suckled her bottle and stared at her mother. He wondered if she would be a great mother to his son.

Isabella burped and scared herself again and they laughed. Yeah, things could finally work out in their favor.