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After another two hours of giving all of the information I knew of Fredrick Mason, I was sent home with a police detail following me in a black undercover car. There would be one outside of my apartment until Freddy was caught. I could feel the heavy weight on my chest as I pulled into the driveway next to Misha's red convertible. Shit was hitting the fan and I needed Misha to get the hell out of Los Angeles as soon as possible, she couldn't get hurt too because of my crazy ex. I wouldn't let anyone else get themselves hurt.

It was just after eleven when I walked in through our unlocked door, my fingers locking it right away as Misha looked over at me from the couch. "Took you long enough, did you decide to have a few last dances at the studio before closing it down?" She asked while taking her glass of wine from the coffee table in front of her.

"No…" I whispered while going to the window and locking that as well, we'd have to rely on the air conditioning from now on.

"What's going on…?"

"Freddy was the one sending me those texts while we were in Charming" I blurted out before dropping my purse onto the floor.

"Your ex? How would you know that?"

"Because I got a few more when I was at the studio, he knew who I was, said that he was going to punish me. I went to see Detective Morrow right away, a woman traced the number and I just put two and two together…"

"Holy shit" She whispered "Come sit down" She guided me to the couch and I sat down on the edge of the cushion, my fingers raking back through my hair.

"He killed Max, I know it. This is all related. He probably showed up at the studio and when I wasn't there Max probably tried to send him away. I told Max about him; my god he got himself killed trying to keep me a fucking secret"

"Don't jump to conclusions" She said while rubbing her hand along my tense back "You don't know if that really happened."

"It's Freddy" I whispered while turning my head to look at my best friend "He had threatened me so many times, so many fucking times and I should have seen it before. I should have noticed that it was him sending me the messages. You need to get out of this city; you're not getting hurt too"

"I'm not going anywhere until this asshole is caught, there's no way I'm leaving you alone now."

"You need to, and I'm not alone. We have a police detail on the place until he's found. Dominic said he can't' be too far away"

"Dominic?" She asked

"Detective Morrow"

"Oh. I didn't know you two were on a first name basis" She said while standing up and grabbing the bottle of wine and poured some more into her glass before handing it to me. I took a few sips before leaning back into the couch.

"I can't leave Los Angeles until he's found" I told her

"Seriously?"

"Yeah… meaning I can't drive you to Charming on Saturday and I can't surprise Jax. I might not even be able to move there when this is all said and done"

"It doesn't matter if you can't drive me, I have my own car. And didn't you hear me before, I'm not leaving you alone with this asshole on the loose threatening you" She sat back down on the couch next to me and wrapped her arm around my shoulders "Where's your phone?"

"At the station still, they said they'd drop it off tomorrow sometime. Which reminds me that I have to call Jax before he drives down here himself"

"He knows what's going on?"

"He knows that I got those texts again, but he doesn't know who it was sending them"

"Why don't you do that? I'll make sure all the windows are locked and I'll put the dead bolt on the door before going to bed" She promised as I nodded before taking the last few sips of the wine and put the glass down on the table.

"Thanks"

"Don't worry about it; try not to worry too much okay?" I nodded before standing up and grabbed the handheld phone along the way towards my room. I needed to relax before I called him because I knew for certain that I would freak out in a panic if I told him all of this news with this heaviness in my chest. So I plugged the bathtub and ran the water to fill the tub. After about halfway, I peeled off my clothes and sunk into the warm water and leaned my head back against the white porcelain.

After a few moments, I dried off my hand and grabbed the phone from the floor and dialed his number, it only took one ring before he answered it "I was just about to hop on my bike and ride down there if you didn't call me" He said

"Sorry I worried you, it took longer at the station than I wanted it to" I said while running a luke warm soaked cloth over my face.

I heard him sigh before he started speaking again "So what's going on?"

"Right now I'm in the bath" I said

"That's a good way to distract me darlin', but what's going on with the case and the texts."

"Right" I whispered as I closed my eyes "We figured out who the person was sending me the texts, and he might be the one who killed Max and broke into the studio."

"Who?" He asked and I stayed silent "Abby, who is it?"

"My ex, Freddy" I said, holding back the wavering of my voice because I knew he would have heard how upset I was about this.

"Are you fucking kidding me? Why would that douche bag be doing this?"

"Because he threatened that if I ever left him he'd eventually find me. Well he found me and now he's fucking up my life royally" I bit out

"Are you coming up here with Michelle on Saturday?"

"I can't, I can't leave my apartment until he's caught. There's a police officer on watch of my place until then, so it's not like I'm unprotected"

"If that was supposed to make me feel better about all of this shit, it didn't. You aren't safe there Abs, try and get that Detective to see it my way. You're safer here with the club and me watching over you"

"I fucking know that Jax but there's no way I'm leaving Los Angeles until he's in custody or dead. He's just going to follow me there if I do leave."

"Then I'll handle him myself, he's not touching you. He's not getting anywhere near you, the police aren't going to do shit about it Abs. From what you told me of him he's a psychopath, he basically held you prisoner for years down in Mississippi"

"I know" I whispered while closing my burning eyes tighter "I'll talk to Detective Morrow tomorrow, he's going to stop by with my phone and then I'll give you a call."

"Mish going to be there"

"Most likely, unless she's meeting up with someone. But Morrow said he didn't want us both leaving the house separately, so I'm sure they'll be a detail on her if she decides to leave"

"Alright, enjoy your bath; I have to make a few calls" he said hurriedly. I was expecting him to be on the phone with me for much longer and was a little disappointed he was rushing this until it hit me that he was probably going to do something insane with this new information.

"Don't do anything stupid Jax, the police are handing it okay?"

"Your safety to me is anything but stupid Abby, just taking extra precautions. The club has a few former members down in LA"

"Don't please" I whispered

"Abby, for my own peace of mind I'd rather you protected by the club and not the officers of the LAPD."

I took a few seconds for myself as I ran the wash cloth along my face again "Okay, just a few of them though."

"3 tops… try and relax; this will be over before you know it"

"I hope so Jax, I miss you."

"I miss you too darlin', call me tomorrow"

"I will" He hung up after a moment and I put the phone back down on the floor before sinking my whole body until the water. I kept my eyes closed and held my breath under the water until the burning came to my lungs for air and I rose above the water.

I continued to pack up my room the next day as I waited for Dominic to come by; it gave me something to do while I didn't sleep either. Nearly seventy-five percent of my room was packed up in boxes before there was a knocking at the door. Misha wasn't going to get it; she left at noon to meet up with Tony to officially break it off with him for good this time. I grabbed the knife I brought to bed with me that was still under my pillow and I walked to the door slowly.

"Abigail, its Detective Morrow!" He called from the other side of the door and I let out the breath I was holding and put the knife down on the counter before unlocking the door and opening it up. He gave me a small smile before walking passed me into the house; he fished my phone out of his front pocket and handed it to me.

"Thanks" I said while tossing it onto the table as well, it was dead; it wasn't useful right now.

"No problem, how are you holding up?" He scanned the packed up living room and raised an eyebrow, his eyes landing on the knife.

"I'm keeping myself busy"

"You have a twenty-four hour detail on your house, you don't need a knife to answer the door Abigail" he said while putting his hand down on my shoulder gently and I tensed up, his hand fell away a few moments later after he squeezed the area in comfort.

"I know that, I just… I'm still freaked out about it all. If this is Freddy he won't stop at anything to get to me, I know how he works"

"I remember him, he was on some team over in Picayune right?"

"Lacrosse, he was the captain his senior year" I recalled

"I was on the Carlin lacrosse team, why would you ever go for a dick like him?" I raised an eyebrow in his direction but then shrugged

"We dated throughout high school like I said in the statement last night, senior year we weren't together because he was trying to focus on his team and school"

"And sleeping around" he threw in and I nodded while shoving my hands into the front pockets of my shorts.

"That too" I muttered with a small shrug again. I looked Detective Dominic Morrow over again briefly before his eyes fell onto mine and I quickly looked away. "So is that all?"

"Yeah I guess, I know the number is blocked from your phone but just in case he somehow gets around that please call me" He said while walking to the door after he looked over the living room once again.

"Of course, I won't hesitate"

"Good to hear, I'll keep you updated as well" I nodded and he opened up the door as I held it open for him to walk through after giving me another small smile and I closed it behind him and locked it.

The reason why I had looked him over again was because I had pulled out an old photo album from high school while packing up my things and some of the photos had been from the water hole. The lake my friends and I hung out at, along with the rest of the senior classes from surrounding schools. As I entered my room again, I grabbed the two photographs on my dresser that I had pulled out of the sleeves of the photo album and looked at them again.

There he was, his arm throw over another lacrosse player from my high school and I was on the opposite side of the photograph with Freddy's arm over my shoulders. There were various people in the photo as well but it was weird that Dominic and I had actually been photographed in the same picture together and I had never noticed it before. I didn't know him then but he definitely hung around with the people in my school.

I looked at the second photograph and it was of me and a friend of mine during high school, Miranda Burton. It looked normal enough until I zoomed my eyes into the background of the photo; Dominic Morrow was standing with a few guys off to the side by the water, Derrick, Jimmy, and Freddy. In more ways than one Dominic had lied to me and it was over the dumbest things too. He didn't say he was friends with Freddy, he said he remembered him but from the way they were standing next to each other they definitely weren't just meeting for the first time then.

I should have probably asked him about the photo but to be honest high school was a while ago and maybe he did forget he knew him during his senior year. After high school a lot of people drop friends to go onto different paths in their lives, I know I sure did. It wasn't a big deal but it still irked me that he sort of lied.

After putting the photos back on the dresser, I grabbed my phone from the table in the living room and plugged it in and left it there to fully charge before calling Jax. There was no update obviously but I did want to know about these three men he was sending over that were former members of the SOA, because I didn't need three meat-head bikers with a lot of tattoo's knocking at my door or even getting arrested by the police officer that was outside of my house.

There were way too many things I worried about during the day and especially now. Lying down on the couch, I turned on the television and flipped through a few channels before finally my heavy eyelids couldn't hold the weight of the world and I fell asleep.

It was dark in the living room when I woke up with the sound of the door being unlocked. I looked over and saw Misha come in and I let out a small breath before yawning. "Oh hey… where you sleeping?"

"Napping yeah, how'd it go with Tony?" I asked while I sat up and she put her keys down on the table and huffed out some air before dropping the box in her hands onto the floor and she then plopped herself onto the couch next to me "That bad huh?"

"He threw a fit, made me pack up my things from his house instead of me just going over there some other day after he packed them for me"

"I had a feeling he wasn't going to be excited about this" I said while throwing my feet up onto the coffee table and grabbing the remote.

"Good riddance though, Op is a thousand and one times better in every aspect than Tony ever was, especially in the sack" I closed my eyes and shook my head with a small laugh forming past my lips.

"Too much information but thanks for sharing"

"What?" She let out a laugh as well before she continued "You didn't think it was his charming good looking that hooked me right? Hell, the guy gave me my first or-"

"OKAY OKAY I get it Mish" I said louder than her voice to drown out the word 'orgasm' before she could say it. She continued to laugh at my disgust of talking about all things sex related. It wasn't disgusting really, it was just super uncomfortable sometimes, especially because she loved details all of the time.

"You have to admit though, the guys we have now are very well endowed"

"I'll agree with that one and that's all you're getting tonight" She smirked and patted her hand on my thigh before standing up.

"Wanna order take out? I'm dying for some Chinese after that long battle with Mr. Head honcho all day and I'm sure you'd like to pig out yourself"

"Please, I'll give them a quick call. The usual?"

"Yeah sounds good, I need to take a quick shower and get his smell off of me" She said this as she brought the collar of her t shirt up to her nose and smelt it.

"You do that, I'm sure it'll take like 20 minutes anyways so enjoy. I need to give Jax a call too…"

"Yeah… about that. Everything okay? When I left around noon today I saw a cop car as well as a truck outside of our house with some mean looking dudes in it"

"Urg, seriously?" I asked her while putting a hand over my face

"What's going on with that?"

"Jax doesn't think the LAPD is capable of handling shit, so he called a few former members of the club from the city to look out for us"

"That was sweet of him" Misha said with a smile and I just shook my head

"Just more people that'll probably end up hurt"

"Oh shut up about that already, we're going to be fine, you most importantly will be fine, you should probably order them some food though, they haven't left that spot" I shook my head once again before standing up and grabbing my phone from the table and pulling the plug out of it.

"Great idea, Jax will have them starve for my safety too probably" She smirked

"Extra protection never hurt, don't give him shit for it okay? Because that's actually really sweet of him to do for you, be thankful that your boyfriend this time around actually cares enough to do this" I let her words sink in and I nodded in her direction

"You're right, this could have been a lot worse if it was the other way around"

"Exactly" She winked at me before turning and heading down the hallway to the shower. I dialed the Chinese food restaurant and ordered a few extra meals on top of our original order and they said it would take about 20 minutes like I thought and then I walked into my room and called Jax.

"Hey babe" He answered

"Thank you, I haven't met them yet but your guys are outside of the apartment looking over us" I said to him before anything else. It was true what Misha had said, if this was any other boyfriend I had they wouldn't have done this for me, they wouldn't have even thought of it.

"Suddenly seeing it my way? Jesus woman where the fuck did this come from?" He asked with a laugh

"I should have appreciated it last night Jax, when you said you were doing it for my safety, I just haven't had someone do something for me without needing something in return; it took me much longer than it should have to realize you were doing this because you cared about me and you didn't have an alternative motive for doing it. So thank you, I really appreciate the extra protection."

"You're welcome darlin', it wasn't that big of a deal; the guys taking shifts out there owed us a favor anyway"

"Glad they cashed in now" I smiled quickly before flopping down on my bed and looked up at the dark ceiling.

"Any update?"

"None which is good and bad I guess. I forgot to talk to Detective Morrow about heading up there and screwing this whole detail shit but I really wasn't in the mood to talk to him or anyone earlier so I'll have to ask him tomorrow" I told him as we got into an easy conversation with how his day went and what he had been up to. Apparently he had been dealing with some shit with some sort of warehouse fire that his club used as storage.

"One second baby" I said into the phone when there was a knock on the door and I grabbed the cash from my dresser and walked through the living room. I unlocked the door and the Asian man stood there on the other side with two brown large bags and I smiled. I handed him the money and he handed me the bags and I quickly locked the door back up "Sorry, had to answer the door."

"Who was at the door?"

"Ordered take out, Misha had a shitty day too so we're having a pig out night"

"Sounds like my kind of party, what kind of food?"

"Chinese"

"Sounds to me I'll have to whip your ass back into shape when you're finally here" I smirked at his playful tone

"We already christened your house in every room Jax" I put the bags down on the counter in the kitchen and started to open them up.

"Didn't christen ever floor darlin', gotta put you to work" I felt my stomach clench in anticipation and want.

"Sort of sounds like a challenge" I said to him as I leaned against the counter, abandoning the bags for right now because this conversation was much more interesting.

"Not that I think you don't have it in you, but with pigging out on Chinese babe… I don't know"

"Challenge accepted… you just totally got your way; damn you for suckering me again Teller" He chuckled on the other line and I turned back around and pulled the containers out of the bags and put Misha's together as well as mine before putting the other three containers to the side for the guys.

"That Jax?" Misha asked as she walked into the kitchen with a towel wrapped in her hair on the top of her head.

"Yeah" I said to her and before she could ask another question I said into the phone "Mish says Hi and to make sure you're looking out for Opie."

"How many times is she gonna ask me to do that, she knows I had his back" I smirked as Misha hip bumped me and I stumbled on my feet a bit.

"All of the time until she's back up there I suppose" I let out a small laugh while she grabbed a fork and started to eat her lo mien. "Baby, I'm going to give you a call later before I head to bed okay?"

"Go pig out, talk to you then" I smiled

"Bye Jackson"

"Bye Darlin'" I hung up and pushed the phone into my pocket before grabbing the containers and plastic forks.

"You two are adorable" Misha said as she sat down on the couch with her food on the coffee table.

"Thanks" I smiled and unlocked the door after pushing my feet into my flip flops at the side of the door. "I'll be right back, going to go introduce myself and give them something to snack on."

"You're going to make a great old lady Abby" I rolled my eyes at her before leaving the apartment and heading down the steps and walkway to go over to the black truck hanging across from the cop car.

I know some of these chapters coming out are fillers until all of the real shit starts to happen so I thank you for sticking with this story and leaving the reviews that you are. It's amazing and still a little mind-blowing that people like this story. I love you all xo