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Jax let them tell him everything and pretended he hadn't known any of it. He just hoped they believed him. Then he told them he was going to see his mother. He had to hear from her about this.

"Sure, but I want to have you searched before you go in." the sheriff said.

"I don't have a problem with that." Jax said.

He let them escort him to the hospital, but he did request that he see his mother alone. They searched him and let him go in.

He was surprised to see his mother awake. But he was glad because he knew he could get out what he had to say to her.

"So the bitch didn't die." he said.

"Jax. I don't know what they told you but it's not true."

"I can't believe you are still going to sit there and lie. Now this is what you are going to do. You are going to admit to it. You are going to pay for what you did to Tara and to my family. You will not tell them that Thomas was the one that shot you. If you do Gemma, I promise you the next time you won't survive."
"Jackson, I am your mother. How can you say that to me?"

"My mother died when she had my father killed." he said and Gemma looked up in shock.

"Who told you that?"

"Tara. Seems like when you gave me dad's letters you hid some away. Tara had kept copies of all of them. I just now found them."

Gemma knew she couldn't argue anymore about it. "I do love you Jax, and I love our boys."

"Love? You don't know what love is. Love is what Tara did when she was trying her best to keep mine and her boys safe. But you couldn't handle the fact that she was showing you what a true mother does."

"That bitch didn't have a clue Jax."
Jax went up close to her and took a hold of her arm. "I can snap your arm like a twig so I suggest you don't have another word like that come out of your mouth about Tara." When he released her arm she yanked it back trying to get feeling back into it. "Oh yeah, watch yourself inside. You may think your a bad ass bitch, but I'm sure there are more like that where you are going."

Gemma knew what he was saying. She wasn't going to be safe. She had to continue to hope that her son would realize he couldn't do this to his mother. She cried tears then as he walked out the door.

Sara had been sitting there in her home crying over what had happened at the club. She heard a knock on the door.

When she opened it she was surprised to find the sheriff there.

"Can I help you?"

"We just wanted to come by and make sure you were okay. We found out some information on Tara's murder."

"What did you say?"

"We found the person who murdered your cousin Tara."

Sara was in shock and she waved them into her home.

"Who?" she asked.

"Gemma Teller. From what I understand she didn't like the fact that Tara was planning on taking the kids out of Charming. She thought Tara had ratted the club out. She didn't know that Jax knew what Tara was doing and was helping her."

"How did you find this out?" Sara asked trembling as she spoke.

"I don't know if you know any members of the club but one by the name of Juice shot her today. He came forward and told us what happened. We have Gemma in a secure lock down at the hospital."

"Does her family know all of this?" she asked.

"We spoke with her son Jackson Teller."
"What about Abel and Thomas?"

"I don't know."

"Thank you for coming to tell me." she said wanting them to leave. She had to think about everything without them interfering with her thoughts.

While sitting there she didn't know what to do. She wanted to go to Abel but she was still hurting about what she saw. As she was trying to make a decision another knock was heard. She got up to answer and was surprised to see Jax standing there.

"Can I come in please?"

"Sure." she said softly.

He followed her into the house and sat down in the kitchen chair. He looked around the room once again.

"You haven't changed anything."

"No, I liked it so Tara must have had good taste."

Jax smiled. "Yeah, she did."

"Why are you here?" she asked.

"I need to talk to you about what happened today."

"About your mom getting shot by Juice?"

"Well about that too. But I wanted to talk about what happened at the clubhouse. You were right about some things. I hurt Tara so many times and if I could take them back I would. But I loved her. I really really loved her. I made a lot of mistakes. The most important one being not protecting her."

"Jax."

"No let me finish. What you seen today was my mom setting it up to make it look like Abel was with someone else and that just wasn't true. Every since Abel met you your the only person he talks and thinks about. So please don't let Gemma come between you two like she did with Tara and I."

"How is he?" she asked tears starting to well in her eyes.

"Not good. He's angry and hurt. He thinks you won't believe him."

"Should I go talk to him?"

"That's up to you darling. You have to make the decision if you want to be in Abel's life or if you want to run as far away as you can from this family."

Sara stared at her hands for awhile and they both got quiet. "I fell in love with him." she barely whispered. Jax looked up at her and took her hands in his. "Then you decide. I'm going to the clubhouse. That's where they are. I know they needed the club to get through all of this."

"Thank you." she said as she followed him to the door.

"I hope you think about this Sara. When you make the decision make sure it's truly what you want."

She nodded her head and watched him get on his bike and leave.

Sara sat down once again. She had a lot to think about.