(Jax POV)
I woke to the sound of breaking glass. I opened my eyes and sat straight up. I knew which room it was coming from. I shot out of bed and down the hall. Julie wasn't far behind me. I flipped on the light in my infant daughter's room. The window was busted. I knew who had done it. She had tried to be quiet about it. I grabbed my infant. We got the boys up and headed for the clubhouse. I was done with all this shit. We were supposed to have had security in the house we were in. That was why we moved there. It was obviously having some kind of issue that I intended to have resolved immediately. I wanted my family safe first. Julie was shaken up. This wasn't going to help the case I had plead to her before we went to sleep.
"What the hell happened?" Chibs asked.
"What?" I asked.
"You're bleeding."
I hadn't even noticed that my arm was bleeding. He took my son from me. The boys had fallen asleep again in the car. I had carried in Brayden. He was completely passed out in my arms. I let Chibs take him so he could check out my arm. I had Phil go out and help Julie bring the other three in. I was already exhausted. Julie carried in the infant seat with our daughter in it. She was asleep again. I let out a breath I had been holding once Phil came in with both Abel and Thomas in his arms.
"Take them to my room," I said.
"What happened Jackie boy?" Chibs asked again.
"Wendy happened,"
"What the hell do you mean?"
"She broke my daughter's window in an effort to find and take Abel."
"I thought she was gone."
"Me too. At least until she popped up tonight at my front door."
"Jesus,"
"Yeah, I guess she killed Tara."
"I thought Tara died in Africa."
"According to crazy Wendy, she never made it to Africa."
Juice was already on the phone waking up Clay and Gemma. I knew he was going to be pissed and my mother was going to be on a rampage. I looked at Brayden who was sound asleep on one of the leather couches.
"They are on their way," he said.
I nodded.
"How pissed are they?" I asked.
"Didn't ask honestly," he said.
I went up to check on my wife and kids. Julie was working on getting the baby settled again after taking her out of the infant seat. I stood in the doorway watching her. She glanced back at me.
"Jax, they're here," Juice said.
"Damn, that was fast," I said.
"Yeah it was."
I stared at my wife for a minute. She turned back to our daughter. I sighed. I walked down the hall to see what the plan was. Clay was staring at me. I had my arm bandaged where I had messed with the window before we left.
"What the hell happened to you?" my mother asked first.
"Wendy's back," I said.
"What do you mean, back?"
"I mean she showed up at my door tonight. How she even found the house is beyond me."
"What the hell?"
"She's deranged, Mom. She said she killed Tara."
"What?!"
"Yeah, said she wants Abel and was pissed off. Said she killed Tara for nothing since there was someone else in my life already."
"Jesus, how are Julie and the kids?"
"She's in my room getting Bella back to sleep,"
"I'll go check on her."
I nodded. Clay called for church. We all went in and sat around the table.
(Julie's POV)
I was trying to calm my daughter down. I was terrified now that she had tried to break into our home. I was more worried about my kids than anything. The boys were all three asleep. I rocked Izabella. Gemma appeared in the doorway.
"Hey, you doing ok?" she asked.
"Do I look ok?" I asked her.
"No you look like a terrified mother who just had their house broken into."
"Well I am."
"Understandably so."
"I just don't get why she is back all of a sudden. She was gone for four years."
"Actually it's only been two. She came back when Abel was two years old for like a week and then left again."
"How was Jax able to file abandonment then?"
"She was gone for another year and coming back to Charming for a week does not constitute being a parent to that boy."
"Oh."
"Jax is going to do whatever it takes to keep you all safe."
"I know he will. I trust my husband. I promise you that. I just don't know how to feel about having my house broken into by some crazy junkie that he used to be married to."
"I hear you honey. It will be ok. We will get it figured out."
I wasn't so sure it was that easy. I now had a window to replace and a security system to fix. I was pissed that it hadn't worked. I was scared of what could have happened to my daughter. I had a million things running thru my mind and it was terrifying.
"Why don't you try to get some sleep? Jax will be in after they figure out what to do about this mess," she said.
"I don't want to have to run to the clubhouse every time something goes down at my house. I want my kids to grow up in a home, not a clubhouse." I said.
"I understand completely dear. I really do. I don't want the kids growing up here. They should have a yard and a neighborhood and their own rooms."
"They aren't going to have that growing up here. It's going to be constant fear for them and I don't want that. I want them to be normal kids."
She nodded. I looked down to see that my baby had fallen asleep. I sighed.
"We'll get to the bottom of all of this," she said.
I nodded, knowing that Jax wouldn't give up until he did.
